Easy Blogging the way expert does

Mindy Mcadams at http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/ and I in this blog strongly recommend WordPress.com for online journalism above all the other free blogging platforms, for various reasons. One big reason is the vast number of tutorials and lessons and support (see an example: a one-minute video that shows you how to save a draft of a new post). See this overview of WP features if you need to be convinced.

Just go there and click the big blue button that says Sign Up Now! (It couldn’t be any easier.) . Starting from a scratch is not to worry about with how to get started with WordPress.com. Mindy summarizes the steps as simply as possible:

  1. Register at WordPress.com (you cannot change your user name later, so choose wisely)

  2. Start a new blog and give it a URL (e.g., myblog.wordpress.com); this also cannot be changed later, so what you pick for “myblog” matters a lot

  3. Read Getting Started if you feel nervous about this

  4. Modify Settings (change your blog’s title, etc.; lots of stuff can be changed any time)

  5. Choose a Theme (how your blog looks); you can change this as often as you like (cool!)

  6. Write your first new post — and publish it

  7. Delete the “Hello World!” post that WordPress gave you

  8. Edit your new post and add a hyperlink (then Update Post)

  9. Test your link on the live blog! Does it work? If not, go back to the Dashboard and fix it

  10. Customize your sidebar(s) with widgets — this is fun!

If still you can get the heck of it, we recomment the following resources for bloggers guideposts which include how-to videos, the official WordPress.com blog, and — best of all — the official support site. Try it now.

References: http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/ and wordpress.com

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