On Sarah Lewis’ new WordPress QuickStart site there is a set of excellent videos to help even the most non-technical person get up and running with a WordPress site.
Sarah is a blog developer and one of my co-moderators on the LinkedIn Bloggers forum.
Note that the site is about installing a downloadable WordPress.org site, not a WordPress.com site. They are both from the same company, but for business people the WordPress.org option is the way to go. WordPress.com has blogs hosted by the WordPress company and has terms of service which I and others find unduly constraining for a business blog. …read more

I’ve spent some time today reading various comments about the new WordPress upgrade to Version 2.10.
This blog, as part of the b5media network, runs on the WordPress platform so upgrading for this blog is not something I’m personally responsible for. However, I have a couple of other blogs which also use WordPress and some people I’m coaching are also on WordPress. So today I’ve been doing some research to try and assess what I need to know and/or do about the upgrade, whether right now or in the future. I hope this post may be of some help to others trying to answer similar questions. 
The official announcement last week by …read more