The Older Geek

When we think of getting web hosting service, we almost always think of a WordPress blog or plain old website. But you can do just about anything when you have web hosting service: store photos and documents as backups online (although some hosts frown on this so be sure to check your host’s policy); blogs [...]

This is Part 5 in the series, How Do I get a Blog? You’ve bought a domain name, a web host, you’ve inspected the cPanel, and you’ve issued your name servers for your domain. Now you’ve hit the big time– time to install THE BLOG! By far, the most popular blogging authoring tool is WordPress. [...]

This is Part 3 in the How Do I Get a Blog? series. Once you have acquired and purchased your domain name, and acquired and purchased your web hosting service, you can access your web hosting account and files from something called your cPanel. According to my handy dandy Glossary of Blogging Terms, a cPanel [...]