Wordcamp Birmingham 2009

by Tom Brander on Sep 26, 2009

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A tutorial for people curious about Wordpress, highlighting wordpress.com, The free service as distinguished from Wordpress.org, the software you can use on your own (paid for ) hosting service.

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Wordcamp Birmingham 2009 — Presentation Transcript

Wordcamp Birmingham 2009 Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org How to get started with Blogging and Wordpress.com Tom Brander, September 26, 2009 © Tom Brander 2009 http://oswco.org

Popular Blogging Platforms

Blogger (service owned by Google)

MS Live (service)

TypePad (paid service six Apart)

Live Journal (service; paid upgrade; now Russian owned)

Movable Type (software six Apart)

Tumblr (service)

Posterous (service)

Many others

Wordpress.Org (software)

Wordpress.com (service)

Wordpress.com vs. Wordpress.org

.org

Open source software that you install on a paid hosting service (starts about $7.00/month domain inc.)

Many features and add-ons to support many options

No restrictions for commercial use

Requires some technical expertise (as much as you want)

You can do many tons with it (much covered at this conference)

.com

Free hosted service (minor paid upgrades available)

No commercial use

May have some ads (have seen very few and not obnoxious)

Very suited for non technical users

You can do a ton with it (not as well covered at this conference!)

How to get started with .com

Select theme (optional)

Write something

Post

Refine

Next we will review screenshots of the steps, followed by screenshots of features for refinements © Tom Brander 2009 http://oswco.org

Some example sites

http://tbrander.wordpress.com (Real Estate)

http://tombrander.wordpress.com (Tech)

http://bigcityblink.wordpress.com (Personal)

http://teewinot7.wordpress.com (Dogs)

http://uakd.wordpress.com (College Sorority)

http://birminghamblogging.wordpress.com/ (Consulting)

But I don't want .....

if you don't want any chance of ads..

Minor paid upgrade, $29.97 per year

If you don't want a .wordpress.com address but do want your own i.e. http://tombrander.com vs. http://tombrander.wordpress.com

Minor paid upgrade

Domain name registration + domain mapping costs $14.97per year, per domain.

Domain mapping for a domain (or subdomain) you already own costs $9.97 per year, per domain.

I don't want a blog I want a web site...

Just use pages and right theme

I want a static front page...

Same as above

Wordcamp Birmingham 2009

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