Your Wordpress blog

[Michelle Morris]

Well, nobody else has posted here yet, so why don't we go ahead and intoduce our WordPress blogs? Mine is "Michelle Morris's Indianapolis Real Estate Blog" you can check it out here: http://mmorris.wordpress.com

[Douglas Karr]

Keep coming back Joh! It works if you work it!

[Barbara Jones]

Hi, Everybody!

I am Barb Jones and my Wordpress blog is BizCustoms.com. Right now it is brand new and doesn't have much content but I am learning a lot and enjoying the process so look forward to growing it. So far I have found the learning curve on handling the technology is one thing and managing a blogsite is a completely different thing and I had underestimated how much time each was going to take to settle down. I have refocused and rededicated, though, because I really like the environment and have a feeling it will turn out to work really well for me. Also think I am really going to enjoy this group.

[Erik Deckers]

I run our work blog with a WordPress plug-in on a Network Solutions server. I just started my wife's blog last night with WordPress' service. And a few days ago, I bought www.SubversiveConsumer.com and pointed it at a new WP blog about the importance of buying local, and thus subverting the large corporations.

My personal humor blog is at Blogger however. I like both services, and wish they could just combine some of their features. Right now, they each have a bit of what I want, so it makes it hard to pick just one.

[Bruce LaDuke]

Eric,

I like your subversive consumer concept. If you get a chance, e-mail me sometime and tell me your vision for this...knowledgemachine(at)hotmail(dot)com I'd like to talk to you about future possibilities for this.

[Lorraine Ball]

I have several different blogs, all built on Wordpress platform.
http://www.roundpeg.biz/blog - This is primarily designed to support my core business, marketing tips for small biz owners. Add to my primary website the first of the year, it has dramatically increased traffic to my site, and would recommend every business owner add one.

http://www.indy-biz.com This is my oldest blog, primarily news about local small business, with the occasional comment or opinion thrown in. Originally built on a Blogger platform, i migrated the content with help from Doug Karr ( who is by the way a word press genius)

http://www.866mynubiz/blog Started with my friend Chuck Roach, this is tips for new biz owners. Most of the content is generated by other experts, and I simply share their content and ideas.

[Michelle Morris]

So, I like my blog at Wordpress, but how to I get my own site, without the wordpress.com being attached to it? Right now my wordpress blog is at http://mmorris.wordpress.com, I wish it was something like michellemorris.com.

I have never bought a website before, and I know my name is already taken. I checked godaddy.com, and found that MMorrisRealtor.com is available., which I like because my e-mail is MMorris, and my Carpenter site is MMorris. But I have no clue about what to do, how to make it look good, how to get my wordpress blog onto it, etc.

[Brian Wyrick]

Michelle,

Not really related to wordpress, but you should check this out:

http://www.mayorofyourzipcode.com/

Brian

[Michelle Morris]

Woah! This is great, thank you!!!

[Brian Wyrick]

Don't thank me, thank Seth Godin!

[Michelle Morris]

Well, thank you to Seth, then. I am a member of BzzAgent, and know about Squidoo from that, but hadn't started my own lens yet. I'm glad you pointed that out to me.

[Michelle Morris]

Thank you so much for your guidance. How much should I expect to spend on a basic page?

[Bruce LaDuke]

Michelle,

If you want your own site and you've never done web development before, I'd recommend that you have someone set up a site for you. It can get kind of complicated. You could have someone set up a Joomla site for you and then you can log into the site and make edits yourself. This site was done that way => http://www.integralfuturing.com

I just click on the Administrator button to log in and add pages or text to the site. Hard part is customizing a template with your brand. Good thing about Joomla though, is that after initial setup costs, you can maintain the site yourself online.