Tris Hussey is telling us how easy it is to use Wordpress. "Somebody else does everything for you."
It's a content management system. Content is divorced from graphics.
Like teenagers are divorced from their parents.
For Godsakes, don't buy anything from GoDaddy!
At Wordpress, they're responsible for keeping the lights on. They update it. Keep it free of hackers.
If maintaining a WordPress install is not high on your priority list, creating one with beautiful things is high on your priority list, stick to Wordpress.com
It's free! Score!
It's beyond cheap in terms of a domain name. It's $15 a year to get a domain name and map it to a Word Press site. That means when you say LindaSolomon.com is going to connect to this Wordpress blog called Linda Solomon wordpress blog.
Domains cost money. No getting around it. Unless you're government or university.
Wordpress has a policy that you own your content, not them. They'll make it easy for you. If you have to move, for a small fee, they'll redirect all the traffic from your old website to your new one.
No other host will do that. Tumblr will let you map domains, but they don't always let you say you are moving.
Enough geek talk for now!
The guy who wrote Wordpress write it when he was 18. Texas. Jesuit education. Genius. Firm believer in freedom of speech, freedom of expression. People in china don't sign up for Wordpress blogs, because he would not bend to China's rules. He firmly believes that you own your stuff. He makes it easy for you to import and export stuff. You're not locked in. It's cool and easy but you're not locked in.
It's a fun place to play, even if you aren't going to use it seriously. They're free and it's fun. It's easy to disguise who you are.
Get you own Wordpress.com account in seconds.
It has to have a starting place, a beginning address.
Sillycatsyvr....
Passwords: think of a short phrase...like Ilikecoffee
It's good because it's long. But it sucks because it's in the dictionary.
Hackers just run a bunch of dictionary words against it.
Words. Not so good.
Substitute out the letters for their geek equivalent. Avoid the letter "l"
Avoid the letter "o"
Easy way to make a strong password out of the above is instead of i use the letter 1, e becomes the letter 3, c can become a parentheses and o becomes 0 (zero)
Twitter was hacked a year ago, because one of the administrators had the word Password on her gmail account as the password. Once the hacker got in, they had access to all of the documents that had been shared on google docs including the passwords the servers.
They took over Twitter. They shut it down. Because one person had password as their password. That's where a Hacker...
Never give your password to Tech Support...
End password rant...
Tip from Oli
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