Website How To

When You Want to Learn WordPress

WordPress is the website building tool of choice for many business owners these days. It’s a great option. No software needed on your computer, great functionality and flexibility – and you can update your site content from any computer, netbook or smart phone. It’s no wonder that it’s become so popular. You’ve probably heard that WordPress is incredibly user friendly – and it is! ...

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Installing WordPress Part 3: Uploading WordPress Files

Now that we know how to choose the right website host for our new WordPress blog, upload files via File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and have a database ready to go, all we have left to do is install the WordPress script and complete the set up process. The WordPress blogging script files should already be downloaded and unzipped to your computer. Now you just need to open your FTP client and browse...

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Installing WordPress Part 2: Setting Up a Database

When installing WordPress you will need to have access to at least one database through your website host. The database holds the meat of the WordPress blog. When doing research on a website host, be sure they provide at least one database so that you can install WordPress on your website. Setting Up a Database When signing up with a website host they will provide you with information to log...

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Installing WordPress Part 1: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

Once you have found a WordPress Friendly website Host you will need to know a little bit about using FTP in installing your WordPress files. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. FTP is the fastest way to transfer files from a computer to a website. Knowing how to FTP is essential to installing WordPress and will be used to move the WordPress script files to your website host server. The...

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Conserving Bandwidth

Bandwidth is used up every time someone visits your website. Unlike disk space, bandwidth is often renewed every month. A lot of times bandwidth can get used up pretty quickly. In this post we will talk a little bit about how to conserve your monthly bandwidth allotment. Every time someone visits your website certain elements they view will take away a certain amount of bandwidth. Images and...

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What is Disk Space?

A lot of clients often wonder what is the disk space? Well disk space is the what’s set aside on the server to host your website. A website is made up of files and folders. Each file and folder takes up space, and the space it takes up is basically determined by the words, images, and code that is put together to make up your website. So for example if your web page is an html web page,...

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