Depending on where you’ve installed your WordPress site, it can come with quite a selection of interesting themes (that’s the “look and feel” templates found in your WordPress control panel at Admin>Presentation>Themes section) or a couple very boring ones. Many times if you’re installing your WordPress site from your web host account, they will bundle a bunch of themes which you can browse and select in your Admin>Presentation>Themes section. However, if you’re downloading the WordPress software from the WordPress website, it comes with the two (or so) boring themes I just talked about. Read the rest of this entry »

Videos are taking the web by storm! That can’t be much of a surprise though. Wouldn’t you rather watch a WordPress video tutorial that takes you step-by-step through a process that you have no clue about vs. wading through page after page of directions in text? Honestly, a picture is worth a thousand words, but an instructional video I’d wager is worth a million, a billion, no…priceless. Read the rest of this entry »

Now that you’ve installed and are ready to use the WordPress software, you’re going to need an understanding of how to make your site work. Maybe you’ve peeked into the WordPress admin area (aka as the Dashboard, the Control Panel, the backend), but you’re really not sure about what to do with it…and you definitely don’t want to mess anything up. Read the rest of this entry »