Want a Blog Just Like This One?
Written by Michael on December 27, 2007 – 1:25 am -I’d really appreciate a little feedback on this.
I’m trying to convince a good friend of mine that he should write a short report that tells a Web newbie exactly how to set up and run their own blog — not using one of the freebie services like Blogger . . . but actually at their own site (http://www.YourName.com)
This Dream Jobs Dialog blog is done with Word Press (free software, but you need to know where to get it and how and where to install and customize it) and hosted at a service called Site5.
Yup, a reasonably smart and fairly experienced Internet user can probably figure all this out on her own, BUT . . . I’m betting that my friend’s guide can save you 10-20 hours of research and a ton-o-hair-pulling and anguish.
Step-by-step sort of stuff.
1. How to pick a creative domain name and where to register it.
2. How to obtain, install, and understand Word Press.
3. How to install a template (the theme that controls the look and feel of your site), put in AdSense so you can generate a little extra revenue, and add a few plug-ins that give you the extra features that you see on this site — things like latest comments, most popular postings, Buy Me a Beer . . . those sorts of things.
So, if my buddy produced the perfect guide where he gave you step-by-step directions that would save you 10-20 hours in setting up a site just like Dream Jobs Dialog, how much would you be willing to pay for it?
That’s it. Request over.
Please let me hear from you on the need for this.
Michael
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December 28th, 2007 at 7:24 am
On sighting - if it did all you say it could, we would have to be looking at $100 initially.
December 28th, 2007 at 10:25 am
This would be very useful but not willing to pay for it. This is the social media era - your ‘buddy’ needs to figure out how to get exposure, recognition and brand development for their own objectives as the reward for doing this. Maybe even bet on some return from Google ads or similar.
December 28th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Good idea, that.
I’m not a prospect, as I already set up blogs as I need them and we have someone on staff who does it for others.
But did want to say it would probably have a market if presented with a “we take away the confusion” slant.
Blogs really are a good way to have fun, to earn prestige, and even to make money. Much depends on the person doing the blogging, of course. One never finds out if they have what it takes unless they first do a blog.
Will Bontrager
December 29th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
This is a really good idea! For someone that is “Blog-illiterate” it would actually be priceless info.
Not sure what the price tag would be for information that would make it that easy to set up one’s very own blog-site.
December 29th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Well, I can attest to the fact that you would save AT LEAST 10-20 hours because it has taken me AT LEAST that long to zero in on a domain name for my own hopefully soon-to-be launched website. I’ve studied long and hard. I’ve accessed multi-internet references and I have agonized over every clever name I could think of. I am dreaming domain names.
Then I read a New York Times article by David Pogue about naming websites and how you can be TOO clever/crazy. There are only so many Googles and Yahoos to be had. The link is this and it’s a good one: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/technology/personaltech/06pogue-email.html
So I am subscribing to the “Keep it simple, stupid” mantra.
This is not an easy job for all of us “web newbies” and if Michael’s friend can zero in on all this stuff, I say “it’s worth a bunch.” The fee should be enough that, if you subscribe to it, you’ll be sure to follow the gameplan.
Although I’ve got a long way to go to a successful, income earning website, I think I’m over the hump. Big Sigh…