Twice in the past week clients have gone ahead and registered their domain name and chose a host prior to hiring me, then realized that they are not happy with the choices they made. In both cases they registered their domain name with the same company that they chose as a host. Also in both cases, what they were primarily dissatisfied with was the hosting service.

This can be problematic because ICANN has a restriction that prevents you from moving a domain name within 60 days. So, if you make an uninformed decision, you may be stuck with it for that length of time, and you will more than likely lose any money that you spent on those services.

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So, you’ve got your blog up and running, and now it’s time to understand the difference between pages and posts.

In terms of your site’s navigation, Pages stay in the same place all the time. Some themes make the links to Pages more prominent than other themes. Pages do no go out as part of your RSS feed. Links to your Pages are on every page of your blog. So, the Pages feature is best used for permanent information and/or information that you want to always be readily accessible.

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Many of my clients, including clients who are putting up blogs, don’t seem to understand what RSS is.

In a nutshell, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. In fact, if you use WordPress or another blog that supports outgoing RSS, your posts are automatically available for syndication. Pretty simple.

So, what does that mean?

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Avian Music performs some of the raciest chamber music in recent history. Come inflame your winter with songs that explore our deepest emotions including love, lust, sex and jealousy; songs that range in inspiration from ancient chinese poets to 1950’s sex manuals to modern sexual dysfunction.

My good friend Ray Lustig is one of the composers. You will laugh out loud while never failing to appreciate the level of talent that has inspired this fantastic frolic!

WordPress is an amazingly effective tool for allowing users to generate a cohesive, feature-rich web site very quickly and efficiently without necessarily knowing any kind of programming or coding.

Having said that, the manual installation procedure does require that you know how to upload files to your server, how to create a MySQL database using MyPhpAdmin, how to set the variables in the wp-config.php file, and in some cases how to set file and folder permissions on your server.

If you don’t feel up to what I’ve just described, you still have options. (more…)