Welcome to Publishing with WordPress

Welcome [sc:MainTutorial]This tutorial can now be purchased in ebook form at Amazon for $2.99. Alternately, you can contact me for a free PDF version. WordPress is an excellent platform for building and maintaining your personal, professional, organizational or corporate website. But whether you’re building a basic web site, blog or sophisticated organizational site, there are a broad […]

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Installing WordPress

[sc:wpcloud]It’s time for the fun part of installing WordPress. Full instructions are supplied in more detail at WordPress’ Codex. Upgrade to the latest Ubuntu distribution and its packages: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Create a www directory with permissions for the Apache web server: sudo mkdir /var/www sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www cd /var/www Download the latest version […]

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Estimating Costs

[sc:MainTutorial visible=”contracted”]Here’s an overview of how much some of the services that I’ve reviewed may cost you. This will help give you an idea of the economic costs of thoughtfully running a fully-featured web presence. In general, your highest costs are likely to come from consultants and developers that assist you – as their hourly […]

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Choosing WordPress

[sc:MainTutorial]While this tutorial focuses mostly on WordPress, there are a wide variety of options when considering what system to build or publish your web presence on. For many people, these are near-religious questions. Below are the technologies that I feel work well and are state of the art today. I also think it’s critical that […]

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