WordPress is a hugely popular CMS for blogging. In part one, we will be downloading and installing WordPress. Then we will install the “Starkers” theme by Elliot Jay Stocks to start with a completely fresh slate for our new design. No sense starting with the default theme, it’s more trouble than...

   We have WordPress installed, We start by poking around the backend activating some plugins, changing some settings and creating posts/pages. Then we take a look at the Photoshop design and note some of the important aspects. Layout, color palette and font choices are all imporant things to...

   In part three of this series, we finish up the structure of the site and start diving into the details. The typography is set up, the right sidebar is set up, and the footer if flushed out. Then we use SimplePie to pull in the external RSS feed and jQuery to pull in the “social” stuff. Not exactly...

   Learn the origin of the blog and how wordpress can give you the power to blog easily.

   Tour the WordPress.com blog tour to see what WordPress can do for you.

   Learn to set up a WordPress.com account.

   In order to add or modify content on your blog you have to login to wordPress.com. This video show you how to login.

   Learn how to find your blog on WordPress.com.

   Learn about the administration panel in WordPress.com to see if you are logged in.

   Learn how to edit your profile and customize your blog.

   Learn about changing your Gravatar - an image for your account name.

   Learn how to add free translation software to your WordPress Blog or website.

   This tutoirial shows you three WordPress plugins to fight comment spam. To use these, your blog must be powered by self-hosted WordPress.

   Learn how to use the new thumbnail feature. This is a new feature, because in the past to attach thumbnails to your posts, you had to use custom fields or maybe a plug-in

   Sticky posts are blog posts or articles that remain at the top of your homepage for as long as you like. This is great for certain important posts you want to display longer than usual, even if you create other posts after them.

   Learn how to convert your HTML Page to a WordPress theme and how to take a simple HTML page, and begin converting it for use in WordPress.

   Learn how to install IntenseDebate on your WordPress blog.