Drupal and Joomla offer comprehensive packages that, in the case of Drupal, includes a blog and forum as core modules. Theming these platforms can be accomplished through both CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and PHP (Personal Home Page or PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) code modifications. However, these platforms are complex and learning enough to install, manage, and customize these platforms can be a daunting task.

hello88 fan You don't want your web visitor to have difficulties in reading or viewing your page thus you have to use a background in your WordPress theme that the fonts or images are easy to be read or seen. It is safe to use white color as background as it can complement in any font colors.

hello 88 If I were going to install WordPress "for real" on a live web site, I would have used an FTP client to upload the .zip file to the desired directory at my hosting service and unziped the file there. Firefox has a terrific and *free* FTP client, FireFTP, that can be used for the upload.

hello8 vina Back up your site files - Many people make the mistake of thinking their database backup contains their website files. Big mistake should your site come crashing down while upgrading to WordPress 3.1. Most domain hosting sites have a site back up facility that can copy your site files and restore them for as far back as a month ago. You may have to pay a small fee for the annual service but well worth having. If your host does not have site backup then all I can say is change hosts IMMEDIATELY.

Click on the "Widget" Submenu Button. Under the "Appearance" menu, you would find different submenu. Once you click on the "Widgets" button the widgets interface appears showing the available widgets in the widget area. Each widgets has its own function, you can choose any of these widgets depending on what your site needs. All you have to do is drag a certain widget from the widget area to the target sidebar and drop it to where you want it to appear.

Regardless of the way you choose, WordPress will automatically install the theme for you and place it in the correct folder. Once this is done, you are then ready to apply the WordPress theme.

I can't tell you how liberating it is as a small business owner to be able to build my own websites. More importantly I can add content whenever I wish to as well as make changes whenever necessary. I'm not dependent on a webmaster which turns into a waiting game and additional expense.