Noobs Guide to Quality Web Sites, The Read online

  Go ahead and get your Username and Password in the text boxes and click Log In. You might want to consider having the site remember you. Up to you, that just depends how much you don’t want to retype your new password.

  Once logged in you will be at your web sites Dashboard. It is pretty simple. Pages for Pages, Posts for your Posts and settings to change the settings… go figure.

  The first thing you are going to want to do is make a new user account. One with a password that you can remember and it is a little more personal. You will see why it is so important in just a few minutes.

  Keep that piece of paper with the other admin username and password on it, just in case you end up forgetting your information, you won’t be completely locked out of your web site forever.

  To do this you will want to click on the Users tab.

  Once the page to the right loads, you will see a list of the users on your site. The page should just have Admin as the only user so far. Above that you will see an Add New button. The add new button will bring up this screen (On the next page).

  You will see Username, Email, Fist Name, Last Name, Website and Password fields to fill in. Fill these in however you want your users to see you. The next thing you absolutely have to do is click the drop down menu that says Subscriber and change it to Administrator. Once that is done you can click the blue Add New User button, it should automatically take you back to the Users panel where you will see your new user account in the list.

  Once you have your permanent user name set up you are going to want to give your blog an actual name. To do this go to Settings, it should already be on General, if not click on General. This is where you set your blogs name, the tag line and the email address that will receive all of the information the blog needs to send you.

  It is a simple as that.

  Fill in the Blog’s Title and the Tagline to whatever you want to use. I suggest something with the keywords you plan on using to promote your web site because Google and other search engines all look at the domain name, then the title before they look at any content.

  Make sure you click the blue Save Changes button at the bottom of the page.

  From here on out, you have quite a few options, this part depends on what you plan on using your web site for. You will most likely want a few pages anyway. To make a new page or edit an existing page you will have to click Pages, then depending on if you want to edit a page or make a new page you will click the Add New Page link. If you want to edit a page you hover over the title of the page and once the options drop down, you will just need to click the Edit link underneath that particular page name. This should look pretty similar to your Users List. My pages list is pretty long compared to yours because I have an ecommerce plug-in installed that added a few pages for me, you can see from the screen shot, or your own screen if you are doing this right along with me.

  Once you are adding or editing a page you will see that it looks very similar to just about any word processing software. You have buttons for Underlining, Bolding, Italicizing, linking and just about any other function that you could imagine needing.

  How do you add pictures you may ask, well, that’s simple. You click the Upload/Insert text next to the Upload/Insert icon. I circled it in red below so that you can easily see what I am talking about.

  Below is a screen shot of the Sample Page being edited.

  Below you can see where it says Drop Files Here, that is exactly what you do. You can just drag and drop your images from your computer and they will be uploaded straight to the site.