Getting Started With Wordpress Tutorials

This is a series of links to tutorials to help one to get started in using the Wordpress website/blogging platform for putting up a website/blog.

But First - Why Wordpress For Your Website?

1. The Wordpress software is the most widely used blogging/website software in the world - that means it will be around for a long time with a lot of support.
2. You can have your website hosted for free on Wordpress.com (the largest blog hosting site in the world), including plenty (gigs) of free space for images, sound files, and video files.
3. Wordpress.com is fully integrated with the Web, meaning every post is automatically "pinged" and potentially syndicated out to other major websites and search engines.
4. For a few bucks (about $10 a year) you can even have your own website domain mapped to your blog on Wordpress.com (but this is not required, it is an added option.)

Quick-Basic Tutorials About Wordpress (Includes many fast downloading pictures "because a picture is worth a 1000 words!")

• Creating a Blog Post or Page
• Adding an Image to Your Blog Posts or Pages
• Simple Resizing and Converting of Images Using Microsoft Paint (available on every Windows PC)

Beginning Tutorials From Wordpress.org (may be more detail than you may want, but here it is for reference.)

• Wordpress Introduction to Blogging
• First Steps with Wordpress
• Pages - Creating and Editing
• Writing Posts
• Comments-Discussion Settings
• Moderating Comments
• Using Images
• Media Add New SubPanel
• Media Library SubPanel
• Administering Your Blog
• Blog Design and Layout
• FAQ New To Wordpress

Video Tutorials About Wordpress (great videos, but not good for slow internet access)

• Wordpress Video Tutorials