What is a Blog??
Two years back, I wanted to share my ideas and views with rest of the world. I found that having a web site will help me to interact with the world. I’m not competent enough in English so I just wanna start my site in Tamil.
As I began to explore more about setting up a web site, I found that setting up a web site and maintaining a web site needs much more technical knowledge. I almost given up and one day I come across http://www.blogger.com.
I started my Tamil Blog over their and leaned about blogs. According to Wikipedia
A blog (a contraction of the term “Web log”) is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual,[citation needed] with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
In my simple words I’ll say, Blog is a simple and effective platform which will help you to set-up your website within minutes. Also it’ll maintain articles or posts in chronicle order.
If you wanna set up a free blog, then you can make your account in blogger.com or wordpress.com. Both of those sites have their own pros and cons.
Once you master in blogging platform you can buy your own domain as I did and can install a famous blogging platform such as WordPress.
Enjoy blogging and share your dreams with rest of the world.
This article is part of a group writing project
Upgrading to WordPress 2.5.1
WordPress announced about their new WordPress version 2.5.1 release. Finally I manage to upgrade the WordPress manually for the first time. I followed the tips given by Ravi, as I was lazy enough to follow WordPress’s detail upgrading guide.
- First download the latest version
- Extract it
- Delete the WP-Content folder
- upload it to your WordPress blog directory
- Run WordPress Upgrade at http://yourblog.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php
that’s it, it worked like magic.
WARNING:
When uploading the contents of the downloaded WordPress files, make sure you upload the contents but not the renamed directory. If you rename your directory to the blog’s directory name in the server it’ll over write important files such as config.php.
Got no problem in upgrading. Thanks Mr. WordPress, you’re the best~!
Upgrading to WordPress 2.5
Today I upgraded my wordpress blogs to version 2.5 from 2.3.3. First I upgraded my English blog and checked the blog, no probs, so I decided to upgrade my Tamil blog as well.
Once the upgrading of Tamil blog is done I checked the home page, there is a warning error message.
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/mayuonli/public_html/blog/wp-includes/classes.php on line 92
Elimai: WordPress Theme Release
This is supposed to be my first WordPress theme, so don’t expect a professional theme from me. I’m not expecting community to use it, but I’ll be happy if you can test and tell me the bugs!
I named it as elimai (எளிமை), in Tamil language elimai means simple! As a matter of fact, my theme is very simple and clean. With time I’ll improve the quality and content of the theme!
- Side Bar Support
- Single Column
Bugs to be fixed!
- doesn’t support calendar widget.
- Include links to pages above the post
I promise these issues will be corrected in next release!
Wanna Play with WordPress 2.5??
If you’re a fan of WordPress, then you must know that WordPress gonna release it’s new version 2.5 soon.
Today I found a demo site which is running in WordPress 2.5. It’s way too cool. Interface is dazzling and it has a look of Vista environment.
Can’t wait? Then go to the WordPress 2.5 Demo site and play with WordPress 2.5.
User Name: admin
Password: demo
Latest News……
Can’t wait for Wordpress 2.5 any longer? A sneak peek at Wordpress 2.5 promises a customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times. The brave and impatient ones can download Wordpress 2.5 Release Candidate 1 (.zip) right now and test drive the version. The final version will be out soon…
Tamil interface for WordPress
I have happy news to all our Tamil bloggers. Today WordPress has given Tamil interface for its site.
Last 5 days nearly 20 of our translators translated nearly 3000 strings as volunteers. It
