Everyone wants to speed up their blog and website. Install the “Firebug” add-on to your Firefox browser and it will help make your blog and website pages load faster.
Akismet is a spam filter… a very good spam filter… and since the majority of blog comments are spam, it is very important to install this WordPress plugin. To give you an indication of how important this plugin is to WordPress, it is loaded when you install WordPress.
Everyone should be backing up their blog database. If you have never needed to use a backup copy of something, count yourself very lucky. Whether it be a Word document, a photograph or a database… you should be backing up all of your work. If something goes wrong, you won’t lose your hard-earned work.
I looked at several photo gallery plugins for WordPress and found “Shutter Reloaded” to be the best. It is very similar to “Lightbox” in that it displays your photos on top of your blog page.
Are there really only five steps to website design? Basically yes… however, good website design and poor website design are as different as night and day. Poor website design is easy to do, but good website design takes some planning.