Art of Blogging

These are specific instructions for installing WordPress 2.

I hope they help!

Step One: Create a database for your blog. Create a user and access rules for that DB as needed.

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Go figure, to blog, you need to have a blog. There are many free blogs and blog scripts out and about so paying for blog software is not really a good idea for most of us. If you want to spend absolutely $0 then you want to use a blog service. If you don’t mind spending a few dollars, I heartily recommend hosting your own blog if you have the knowledge.

If free is for you, MySpace has free blog space. Blogger does the same without all the cheesiness of MySpace. There are MANY free blog services!

If it’s free, why is this post going to continue? Quite simply, there are downsides to the free alternatives ranging from lack of flexibility to inability to run advertisement or being associated with splogs. TANSTAAFL!

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