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Information Technology News Use open source to build your own online presence for nothing part two
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| by David M Williams | |
| Thursday, 15 November 2007 | |
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The site I’m working on to demonstrate is www.opensourcerecruitment.com, a meeting place for open source projects and open source programmers. So, the domain I bought was opensourcerecruitment.com which is now being hosted using a free plan with commercial webhost PHPnet.0lx.net. I’ve installed WordPress but so far we have no content whatsoever. If you’ve been following along, that’s where you’ll be up to as well. Initial WordPress setup First things first; let’s tidy up our WordPress site. During its installation, it makes up a random password for the initial admin user. Go back to your site and click the Login link on the right-hand pane and enter your username (“admin”) and the password you were assigned. If entered correctly, you’ll see the WordPress dashboard which give you a launching point for common tasks. The first link, naturally, lets you write a new post. The second option, however, allows you to change your password so go do that and set it to something more easily remembered. Be absolutely certain to remember that your site is live on and on the Internet; don’t make the password anything obvious – such as the word “password” itself. Next click the Options link on the menu strip which appears under the name of your site. Change the tagline to something appropriate. Note also the two membership checkboxes. You can stipulate whether people can add comments to your site without having to register, and whether people can freely register themselves. If you wish, your site can be very tight. This greatly decreases your risk of having spam or inappropriate content added by others. Conversely, you might wish to make the site more open. This means you will have to police comments added but you may also encourage feedback. I certainly take the view, personally, that requiring people to register just to make a comment on one of my stories would kill a lot of the feedback except for the most dogged. None of the other options are too significant; make any desired changes then click Update Options. Google webmaster tools If our site is going to get anywhere, we need Google to know about it. But, what’s more, Google offers some stellar tools for webmasters to track the site’s popularity, who is linking to it, and what search terms are being entered that bring it up. Go to Google’s webmaster tools page and sign up, or if you already have a Google account – be it GMail or AdSense – sign in. |
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