Go their website and read the instructions – http://wordpress.com/

However, if you cannot figure it out or you just don’t have the time to mess with it, give me a call and I can help you out. I have installed it plenty of times for other sites I have worked on.

Call now! 1.910.538.6731 use the Contact page contact form to send me an email.

On a side note, I saw this job post on Craigslist today:

We need the following today:

– Someone to setup WordPress on our host
– Take our custom/ branded CSS and create a WordPress template
– Install the new custom template to the WordPress blog

Send hourly/ project rate and examples of your work. This should not take you more than 2 hours.

I find it amusing how someone who does NOT know how to install WordPress, much less create a custom WordPress template, know that this type of project should only take 2 hours. Without seeing the complexity of the design, it would be impossible to quote an accurate estimate on the time needed.

Just wanted to give a shout out to a local blogger website in Wilmington. Feel free to check them out.

Are you looking for someone to help you with WordPress? Then look no further!

We can help setup a forum or a blog on your website to help build community, share ideas and also provide a good SEO resource.

Forums and blogs can provide you with an opportunity to see what people think about your website, services, products, etc.

The topics that you create on your blog should be related to the service you are providing or the product you are selling.

If your blog is seperate from your website, you should always link back to your main site from your blog.

Well-managed blogs can also rank very high on Google and bring traffic to your site.

5 Reasons to Build a Blog according to Yahoo:

1. Expose a new or unfamiliar product or idea
2. Improve your search engine rankings.
3. Position yourself as an expert in an industry or field.
4. Influence public opinion.
5. Engage in a forum openly with your customers.

We can setup most blogs (Google Blogger, WordPress, etc.) and modify their given templates so that the look like your current web design.

I signed up for a feedburner account today and found a really cool tool where you can copy and paste some script into your website and it outputs your blog entries into your existing website for you.

You can specify certain parameters such as how much text to show, where to place the date, if you want to show the author or not, how many blog entries to show, etc.

If you visit my homepage you will see what I mean: Impulse embeds feedburner on website’s homepage

Mike Sansone had some good pointers about blogging:

• Find-ability: Use social tools such Technorati, Flickr, del.icio.us, and Digg to make your site findable.
• Adapt-ability: Track your traffic – both your site and your feed – and adapt to what your audience reads and clicks. Don’t box yourself in to tight. Change is growth.
• Response-ability: Comment on other sites, send ‘thank you’ emails to other bloggers for their work, always respond to comments left on your blog.
• Market-ability: Get great at writing headlines. The best way to do that is by writing headlines (and posts). Submit your work to Carnivals, or start your own.
• Sustain-ability: Don’t start something you aren’t willing to see through to completion. Patience, young blogger. The reaping comes after the sowing.

One more reason why I started a blog – I can’t suggest it to customers if I don’t know how to do it myself.

I set up a blog for my company the other day (http://www.avalive.com/blog/blog.html) and was showing it to a friend. He asked me if I was pinging Technorati when I made updates. I was like, ‘Techno -who?’.

He said you can set it up so that whenever you made changes to your blog, you notify other popular blogs of your changes. Fortunately, Google’s Blogger does that automatically for you.

Technorati is very popular right now so you want to make sure you ping them.

I did some research and found this site the other day:

http://www.pingoat.com/

This service lets you ping multiple blogs at once. It’s free, easy and they also have some other great tools like a webpage keyword analysis tool, a spider simulator tool and email anti-spam generators.

Impulse Web Solutions of Wilmington NC is starting it’s own blog courtesy of Google’s Blogger.

The purpose of this blog is to discuss up-and-coming technologies in the world of web development and to inform site users about what’s new with Impulse Web Solutions.

Enjoy the blog!

http://www.impulsewebdesigns.com