“Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!”

This greeting is always on the first post after installing Wordpress. The Hello World greeting has been a standard tutorial phrase in Visual Basic and any other number of applications where a greeting needs to be displayed – but for blogging it is most apt!

We may not realise it at first but writing (or posting) to a blog on the Internet is just like sending a non private letter to the World. Anyone could stumble over it, chances are unless you promote it, they won’t – but the possibility is always there.

Our aim with this domain is to teach you how to make a blog that people don’t just stumble over accidentally but actually seek out, find and gain from reading. Whether you want to blog to get pocket money or blog to get Rich Quick, whether you want a business blog that shares information or a marketing blog that promotes products, even if all you want to do is share your experiences with your friends – the basic principles of blogging are the same.

Currently we are compiling a package, called Rich Niche Blogging containing tutorial modules on Niches, Blogging, Monetization and Traffic. That will be on sale soon at http://www.richnicheblogging.com. We also want to maintain two blogs with current information about blogging. Wordpress is the most popular blogging platform there is for self hosted blogs so that one is the one you are reading.

You can download the Wordpress platform for free from http://www.wordpress.org. When you do you’ll get a read me file such as this – About Wordpress
with many links to extensive help in the form of forums, documentation and developers. If you have a web host with CPanel you can install a Wordpress Blog in only a few minutes using Fantastico.

If you stumble over this post in the next few days, you’ll discover this is a fresh installation (using fantastico) and all that is here is this post. No header yet, nothing fancy – just the bones of it – and yet it’s functional, I spent less than five minutes installing it and it’s easy to modify. have changed its theme and installed a few plugins but that’s it so far.

Over the next few weeks we’re going to be answering a few basic questions such as

What is a Blog. What is a Niche. What is a Theme. What is a Plugin.
How can I install a theme. How can I use a Plugin. What is a Widget.

And then we’ll move along to more advanced questions. As well as this Wordpress Blog I have also installed a b2evolution Blog so you can see the difference. Like this one it is currently a bare bones installation at http://richnicheblogging.com/niche/
For now, my name is Julie – Hello world! If you stumble on my post click the comments feature and say hello. If you have a blogging question you’d like answered, ask away, while I’m helping you- you’ll be helping me find material for my posts. Sometimes when you’ve been doing something for a while, you take your basic knowledge for granted and forget that you once looked at Hello World and hadn’t a clue what to do next!

Wordpress really is easy though so if you decide to have a Wordpress Blog just click around, experiment and explore, and soon you’ll be able to enjoy blogging with confidence.

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