I have always known that one day i will create my own blog as a first step of making myself visible and doing my own “thing”. For that reason i have gathered bunch of links and information about blogging and best blog CMS – Wordpress.

The reason why wordpress is good, is that it has very big community, huge userbase and most web designers know about it and design for it. Many web designer sites use wordpress as their site’s content management system too. With all the free design templates and plungs to enhance base functionality the Wordpress really is the best.

First look at these great tips from Cats Who Code:

• 8 tips to enhance your wordpress blog seo
• 10 tricks to make your wordpress theme stand out
• 10 awesome .htaccess hacks for wordpress
• 10 tips & plugins to get more comments on your wordpress blog
• top 10 wordpress hacks in june ‘09

Few more useful pages:

• Wordpress SEO tips
• 100+ wordpress tutorials from basic to advanced
• Social bookmarking plugins to share your posts
• power tips for wordpress theme developers by smashingmagazine
• 10 handy wordpress comments hacks by smashingmagazine
• 15 jquery plugins to enhance your wordpress theme

If you plan to design your own site, then check out these great theme collections:

• Place i got this theme from – web design lessons
• 30 free, amazing and versatile wordpress themes
• 43 phenomenally groundbreaking wordpress themes free to download
• 15 fresh wordpress themes

Now this is quite extensive list that helps you get great start for anybodys blog, but there are still some curious things anybody might encounter. The problems that i encountered had nothing to do with the lists above they were actually hosting related. Hosting can also be something that causes problems to bloggers. Your hosting could be in ‘bad neighbourhood’, meaning that the same hosting provider provides hosting for sites that are marked harmful or bad by search engines and beeing on similar ip to those can cause problems for your site. I hope this is something that will not be a problem to me, especially since i dont plan to be proffessional blogger.

All my problems were related to software used by hosting provider. My hosting provider – Folderburg – uses windows based servers which do not run apache as web server software. Most articles about web hosting, seo tips and so on are written from the point of view that the servers use apache software. Well my server does not and the stuff i had to figure out with the help of Folderburg help desk was:

• How to set wordpress show wordpress 404 not hosting 404 page
• How to make human friendly urls working
• How to fix site links to show correct url’s

First two points are very well explained here : ruslany.net. This site has alot of info about using wordpress and windows server software together.  solution to last point has been explained by wodpress crew here.

Word of confidence to every beginner – if you are not afraid to get your “hands dirty”, then web has alot of articles about how to fix almost anything. The chance that you are first to encounter any problem is quite small, when it comes down to web & internet. You only need to learn to ask right questions.