Wordpress

For most of my blog "career", I had hosted my blog at blogger.com but as I got more and more into things, I realized that it would probably be better to have my blog on my domain. I had read quite a bit about wordpress and decided to give it a try. Initially, I only created a new blog at www.wordpress.com but it didn't really stack up to www.blogger.com because you could NOT put up adsense ads (or any ads for that matter). You really have to use the wordpress software (found at www.wordpress.org). Typically, with your own domain name, you can use the worpress software in two ways: install it yourself or team up with your hosting service and see if they already provide it. At, godaddy.com, where I have www.tylercorlen.com hosted, wordpress is available free so I just used their install. It was very easy to set up. During my test and startup, I had my blog hosted at www.tylercorlen.com/wordpress (the default installation site) but after a short time, realized that it was better to host my blog in the root of my domain. There are very simple instructions for moving the blog to the root of the domain included in the wordpress admin pages once you set up your wordpress software. There you have it.. It's August 20, 2007 and that's where I'm at today.