Tim February 24th, 2007
This post is part of a series:
WordPress 2.1 Part 1 of 3 | Installing from scratch
WordPress 2.1 Part 2 of 3 | Digging into the Administration Panel
Wordpress 2.1 Part 3 of 3 | Customizing and Extending WordPress
It’s the time you’ve all been waiting for (all 3 of you). The final edition in our series on WordPress 2.1. We’ve gone through a complete installation from scratch, worked out all the details of administrating our blog, and today we will start adding in themes and customizing both the user interface and admin panel with plugins and widgets. If you thought WordPress was looking good before wait till you see the shiny coat of paint we’re coatin’ on it now.
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Tim February 23rd, 2007
Tumblr – “If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks.” Created by Davidville, Inc, the makers of Senduit, comes a free, fully hosted blogging platform that focuses on quick blurbs of content, pictures, videos, and quotes. The best feature by far is the ability to tie it to a custom cname, giving the user an option to have a .com address mirror content from their Tumblr blog.
Tim February 23rd, 2007
This post is part of a series:
WordPress 2.1 Part 1 of 3 | Installing from scratch
Wordpress 2.1 Part 2 of 3 | Digging into the Administration Panel
WordPress 2.1 Part 3 of 3 | Customizing and Extending WordPress
Well well well, nice to have you back. If you’ve been tuning into our programming here at DemoMarks you would know that we’ve got a 3 part Demo of WordPress 2.1 going on. Yesterday we covered Installation of WordPress from Scratch. Today we are tackling the Admin interface of WordPress. From writing and managing posts and pages to plugins, links, and presentational elements, the administration panel has a lot of functionality built into a pretty clean and simple package. Let’s take it for a test drive.
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Tim February 22nd, 2007
Today we will be featuring a social networking service for teens called Piczo. “But Tim, you’re not a teen, and everyone uses Myspace anyway,” you might say. However, Piczo is gaining popularity in the UK and Canada, and as we’re about to show you, has quite a bit to offer that Myspace lacks. Piczo launched in 2004 and has earned notoriety not only from the increased customization available to the average user (it is literally a WYSIWYG website builder at heart) but also for the partnerships it has created with major players like YouTube, Flock, Photobucket, and others. Signup is easy, setup is another story, but we’ll get to those details in due time. Let’s demo it.
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Tim February 21st, 2007
This post is part of a series:
Wordpress 2.1 Part 1 of 3 | Installing from scratch
WordPress 2.1 Part 2 of 3 | Digging into the Administration Panel
WordPress 2.1 Part 3 of 3 | Customizing and Extending WordPress
To kick off our reviews here at DemoMarks I’ve decided to take WordPress 2.1 for a test drive. WordPress is a blogging platform developed by Matt Mullenweg that has continually gained in popularity for the wide array of plugins and themes, large community base, and ability to customize every aspect. Many web developers are choosing WordPress as a content management system for client websites and, as you may have already noticed, DemoMarks is built on WordPress.
While installation is far from difficult, users who have no web hosting have the option of using WordPress.com’s integrated blogging platform that cuts out the middleman and allows anyone to sign up for a blog with hosting provided by WordPress. However, this demo will cover the installation of WordPress on your own hosting service. Part 2 will cover navigation of the administration panel and Part 3 with explore the customization options available to you using WordPress to make your blog unique.
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