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Posted on April 1st, 2008 by Shane.
Admin, Blogging, Site.
On the 24th of this month, Shanebellinger.com or “Shane’s World” will be two years old! Two years went by so fast. I have had a a few thousand hits on this site, and I do have a number of readers, most of them are people I know, but some are not. I am really happy to have people reading this site, even though a lot of it is fairly boring. I try my best to make this site as interesting as it can be. I hope to post a lot more. Currently there are 229 posts on this site. There will hopefully be at least 350 by the end of this year. I usually post the most during the summer.I hope to be posting again soon!
~Shane Bellinger :-)
Posted on February 11th, 2007 by Shane.
Admin, Blogging, Web Hosting, WordPress.
On my little Business site, I decided to switch WordPress 2.0.5 to WordPress MU 1.0. This means that I can now host other peoples blogs on my site! It will be a free service, and unlike WordPress.com or other hosts, you just tell me whatever you want and I will do it for you. It’s completely free, and I hope that anyone looking for a Free WordPress blog host will turn over to me! NO ADS, NO POPUPS, NO NOTHING! Free, Quality Service, run how you want it!
UPDATED: Hosting is not working out. I’ll just be sticking to a free tutorial and articles site. Web Design is still opened. Sorry For Any Inconvenice 
Posted on January 27th, 2007 by Shane.
Asides, Blogging, News, Random.
Posted on January 11th, 2007 by Shane.
Blogging, News.
WordPress has launched a new feature on their website. It’s a simple form (click here) to express how you feel about WordPress. Tell the WP develoment team what you Absolutely Hate about WordPress! You can write anonymously write and express the things you disagree about in WordPress.
I think this is a good new feature, so you can really tell the development team about what you really hate and think should be changed.
Kvetch is Yiddish for: 1. A chronic, whining complainer, A nagging complaint: “a rambling kvetch against the system” (Leonard Ross).- From Answers.com.
WordPress talks more about this on their Development Blog. Click here to read their post.
Posted on December 30th, 2006 by Shane.
Asides, Blogging.
I really hate spam. I’ve been getting so much of it lately. Since I installed Akismet, (not that long ago) the anti spam plugin, It has blocked 240 Spam comments. Even though it’s blocking most of it, some spam is still getting through. I’m seriously thinking of closing commenting, and only allowing registered users to comment (Anyone can register).
Posted on December 29th, 2006 by Shane.
Blogging.
I was talking about blogging the other day. Here is a tutorial on how to install one of the most popular publishing platforms, WordPress. I tried to do a video tutorial, but it did not quite work out. It’s at the bottom of this post. Instead I did a visual walkthrough on WordPress installation:
First go to www.wordpress.org, and click Download.
Next, Click the Download format of your Choice.
Login to your Cpanel, and click the MySQL database button.
Next, Create a MySQL database for your blog. After you’ve added that, create a database user. After that’s complete add the user to the database using the drop down menus circled in the shot above.
Now, click on File Manager. Click on public_html or www when you get in the file manager. Upload wordpress zip archive that you downloaded.
Now Click extract file contents in the file manager. Delete the zip archive. You will notice a new directory called WordPress.
The directory you extracted is called WordPress. If you want, re name this directory to something like ‘blog’ or ‘journal’, so your URL would be www.example.com/blog/. To make WordPress your whole website, simply extract the file on your desktop, and put all of the individual files in to a new zip folder and upload and extract the zip folder. Or you could FTP it up. That’s how I did it.
Now, click on the PHP file wp-config-sample.php. Edit the file.
Fill in your database details (where I have it circled).
Open the WordPress install URL www.example.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php, and we’re ready to start the installation.
Type in the name of your blog, and your email adress. This can always be changed later.
Now, we’ve installed WP! COPY YOUR PASSWORD! And then login with the user name admin. Your password can be changed later.
Login Page.
Now it’s time for you to explore! Change your password under the Users tab. More tutorials on how to add plugins and themes coming soon!
Posted on December 28th, 2006 by Shane.
Blogging.
A ‘blog’ is short for weblog. A weblog is a website, that is like a journal- sort of. Businesses can also use blogs. They can use blogs to easily publish their news, or advertise new products. Newspapers, and magazines also are using blogs.
Blogs are becoming more and more popular. Anyone can start a blog. Blogs can be very easy to create, if you are using the right tool. So many people are starting to turn to blogs to publish their news and advertise, because it is so easy. Also, so many people are just starting a personal blog, to share their thoughts, or showcase things like web templates, music, or other graphics or downloads.
Blogging is so easy. Anyone can start blogging right now. There are tonnes of free blogging services, and web hosts deticated just to blogs.
Also, if you want to purchase webhosting, like I am for both my blogs/sites, you can. But, when you buy webhosting, and a domain name, your server does not come with a blog already on it. You need to find the right blogging platform/publishing system that is right for you.
I can help a little bit with the stuff above. First, if you want to start blogging right away, with no domain, and want a free service, here are some:
Now, here are some payed blogging tools.
Here now are some web hosting services, that I think are great for hosting a personal site/blog, or two. These are payed hosting services, and if you want to buy them and set up a personal site, or a small buisiness site, these would be great for that too. If you are focusing on a blog, you will have to find the blogging platform that is right for you, which I will also help you with.
Small Business, and Personal site hosting services:
Okay, now that I have given you some affordable, and really good (in my opinion) web hosting services, it’s time to actually pick the Blogging/Publishing Platform that you are going to use to power and maintain your Weblog.
I’m going to help you choose some.
Publishing and Blogging Platforms: (all Free- except Movable Type with Multi Users and Extra Support)
Movable Type is a Publishing Platform for bloggers who want to have Multiple Blogs on one installation of Movable Type. Movabletype is also the #1 choice for buisnesses. Movable Type is quite easy to Learn. I Have a Movable Type blog- Officiallyshane.org, and I also have another blog on the same installation- my Travel Journal. You can add unlimited blogs with the click of a mouse. Installation is pretty easy- it may be harder for some, but there are so many tutorials out there on how to install it. I will be posting a tutorial about that too, sometime in the future. For now, here is some instructions on how to install it on your web host. It was easy for me, with a lot of times trying over and over again, I finally got it. It can run on four different databases: BerkeleyDB, MySQL, SQLit, and PostgreSQL. Most webhosts offer MySQL. Movable Type enterprise is also available for big company blogs. For full support, for a year, and 10 users on your blog it costs $279.95. If cut down the number of users, it gets less and less expensive. Click Here to see the price List. If you only want one user, and want MT for personal blogging, but no support, it is free, which is good, but you don’t get any support from Six Apart. Movable Type is a great blogging tool.
WordPress is another really good blogging tool. It’s what is powering this site right now. With a static frontpage plugin, or a special template wordpress can be used as a full Content Management system. Add new webpages with a single click. Visual Rich text editor. Resize images, and upload right in the posting panel. It’s super easy to post, write webpages, and add categories. Comment moderation, Private posts and more. There are so many plugins and themes for WordPress. WordPress is more than a blog tool. It’s a little bit easier to install than Movable Type. I really like WordPress, it’s great for beginners, or anyone!
I don’t have experience with Greymatter, but I hear it’s a good blogging tool. Easy to use. It’s uses a template based design. To customize templates, all you need to know is CSS, and HTML. Greymatter is another great tool, and I will be sure to try it out one day on one of my test websites.
B2 Evolution is another great blogging tool. I don’t have much experience with this, but It’s really good. Create multiple blogs on one installation.Okay!! I think that’s enough for now! (This is the longest post I’ve written on Shanebellinger.com!!) I hope you consider blogging! It’s really good to share your thoughts with the world… Instantly. Please consider it.
I will be back another day with some more info on blogging, and hosting. I will be writing some tutorials on how to use some of the blogging platforms, and install them on your hosting account. I hope to make it easier for you!
I will also help you a bit more on choosing a free blogging service, a payed blogging service, or if you should buy web site hosting and start a personal website or install a blogging platform, and start a blog that way. I will also put out some tutorials on how to customize, or even make your own templates/themes in WordPress and Movable Type.
That’s all for today! More coming soon! 
Posted on December 16th, 2006 by Shane.
Blogging.
