Reactuate

This entry is from my series: Starting A Blog Using WordPress and Dreamhost.

Now that you have the blog set up and its name should be propagated around the internet, its time make the blog yours.

Things to change:

Initial WordPress welcome blog entry.
The comment to the initial blog entry.
Blog sub-title.

When you come to your new blog you [...]

This entry is from my series: Starting A Blog Using WordPress and Dreamhost.

Check Step One’s Results
OK in the last episode we set up our domain. This means that we told the world about our domain, so lets see if that works. Go to your browser and enter the URL of you new blog. Do you [...]

This entry is from my series: Starting A Blog Using WordPress and Dreamhost.

If you signed up via Dreamhost and got your domain through them this step is done. If not or if you are creating a new blog on a Dreamhost account follow along.

When you create a domain on DH two thing happen. You domain [...]

Mise en place is a cooking term from the French “Everything in place”. What it means in cooking is you gather all of the ingredients for a recipe and measure them out into little containers before you start cooking at all. This insures you have everything you need before you start cooking and don’t suddenly find you need a cork screw when the wine needs to be added now.

So before we open up Dreamhost and start building our WordPress blog, we want to make sure we have all the ingredients we are going to need.

This is the first in a series of articles on how to - step by step - set up a blog using WordPress on Dreamhost.

In this article we talk about the structure of the series and why it exists.