Beware Host Gator Site Owners

Written by blogboy from http://www.bloggingfornoobs.com/ on May 26th, 2008 | 0 Comments

This morning HostGator has made everyone change their passwords to a strong password. This is no big deal until you go to access anything that uses your mysql database. Just a heads up, this can royally screw your blog access. Being the administrator for more than half a dozen blogs and bbs hosted on HostGator. [...]

Theme Changes

Written by blogboy from http://www.bloggingfornoobs.com/ on April 28th, 2008 | 1 Comment

The question of whether you should make theme adjustments is always a difficult one to answer.  It is even be harder to do and not negatively affect your onsite readers.  That being said here are my thoughts.

Limit major theme changes to no more than once a month.  Anymore than once a month clearly defines [...]

Installing WordPress 2.5

Written by blogboy from http://www.bloggingfornoobs.com/ on April 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment

The install of WordPress 2.5 is a pretty painless event if you can follow easy directions and don’t go out of your way to make things harder than they really are.  I know what you are thinking thinking, why would anyone want to make things harder than they need to be.  The answer is simple, [...]