New Gal on the block - some basic set up questions
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:24 pm
Hi I'm the new gal on the block here I guess and I'm a beginner to all of this blogging and setting up blogs..
I have been trying out blogs for the last two weeks and I am totally frustrated.. I first of coarse went to Word Press, I got so confused with php and css and all of that coding jargon. I asked questions on their forum, trying to basically set up. I got answers telling me that wordpress org. was not for me..
okay I went to Nucleus - great tech support and I learned alot but not so user friendly to a beginner.. everytime I want to change or add something seems I must go to the techs..
installed my hosts own version using word press.. was great but no widgets, plugin or any tweaking can be done...
now totally frustrated I come to serendipity.. I managed to already get a custom banner up.. woooo hoooo that took a tech telling me what to do in nucleus!
and even managed to install a plug in - major major celebration
but now I'm stuck.. can I add things like a) Slide shows, b)music and
most importantly I need someplace on the sideboard where I can c) link many many different blinkies of other blogs like myself . It is our way of advertising. also with that in mind I want on the sidebar d) a section for my favorite sites.. all clicable links
I want to be able to do these codings without the expert help of a tech every single time I have a new blinkie to put up or come across a great site..
Hope I have made myself clear about what I need, someone to direct me how to do these things and once done let me do it, don't make it so complicated that I won't be able to just put in simple html code and yes that is what I would like to work with if at all possible, html
I have been told to use Blogger, Word Press.com or accept what my host has.. because I am so inexperienced in CSS and PHP. Is there not a place that is willing to take us newbies in and explain in english, slowly what to do and then let us do it? No one has the patience nor do they remember when they too didn't know a thing..
okay off my soap box.. am I able to have the things I mentioned and someone please explain to me what PermaLinks is in words I can understand please.. I keep reading what it is but the words go over my head, zoom around and don't land anywhere near me..
sorry but I am so frustrated, we have been trying to launch a business and this has stopped us in our tracts for a while now..
Thank you very much
Robyn
I have been trying out blogs for the last two weeks and I am totally frustrated.. I first of coarse went to Word Press, I got so confused with php and css and all of that coding jargon. I asked questions on their forum, trying to basically set up. I got answers telling me that wordpress org. was not for me..
okay I went to Nucleus - great tech support and I learned alot but not so user friendly to a beginner.. everytime I want to change or add something seems I must go to the techs..
installed my hosts own version using word press.. was great but no widgets, plugin or any tweaking can be done...
now totally frustrated I come to serendipity.. I managed to already get a custom banner up.. woooo hoooo that took a tech telling me what to do in nucleus!
and even managed to install a plug in - major major celebration
but now I'm stuck.. can I add things like a) Slide shows, b)music and
most importantly I need someplace on the sideboard where I can c) link many many different blinkies of other blogs like myself . It is our way of advertising. also with that in mind I want on the sidebar d) a section for my favorite sites.. all clicable links
I want to be able to do these codings without the expert help of a tech every single time I have a new blinkie to put up or come across a great site..
Hope I have made myself clear about what I need, someone to direct me how to do these things and once done let me do it, don't make it so complicated that I won't be able to just put in simple html code and yes that is what I would like to work with if at all possible, html
I have been told to use Blogger, Word Press.com or accept what my host has.. because I am so inexperienced in CSS and PHP. Is there not a place that is willing to take us newbies in and explain in english, slowly what to do and then let us do it? No one has the patience nor do they remember when they too didn't know a thing..
okay off my soap box.. am I able to have the things I mentioned and someone please explain to me what PermaLinks is in words I can understand please.. I keep reading what it is but the words go over my head, zoom around and don't land anywhere near me..
sorry but I am so frustrated, we have been trying to launch a business and this has stopped us in our tracts for a while now..
Thank you very much
Robyn