BLOG DESIGN SOLUTIONS Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:15:00 (Web site design and hosting)
BLOG DESIGN SOLUTIONS
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Once your RSS feed is up and running on your live site, I recommend submitting it to pingomatic.com, which will automatically notify all the web-based RSS news readers that your RSS feed exists. Making it live And so your blog engine is complete. You now have an administration site to add and edit blog posts and a blog site with a homepage listing your latest entries, a page for each post allowing comments, an archive of all past entries, search functionality, and an RSS feed. All that remains is to move the whole lot onto a live web server. Migrating your database I assume that your Internet Service Provider has provided you with FTP access, PHP, and MySQL. If so, it probably provided you with phpMyAdmin as well. If phpMyAdmin is not installed, you can use FTP software to copy your phpMyAdmin files to your live server. In this case, you will probably have to edit the username and password in the config.inc.php file, as explained in Chapter 2.