Blog - The Blog Starter

In the articles below you will find tips & tricks for new bloggers. If you still haven't started your blog, use my easy beginner's guide to create one and then come back to this page later.

How to Remove a Page Title in WordPress

Note: This tutorial is for WordPress.org blogs. If you are still using a WordPress.com blog the process may be different. To unleash the full power of WordPress you should considering moving from WordPress.com to WordPress.org. At its core, WordPress is very much a content management system for blogging, but thanks to its open-source status and […]

Free PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript editor (IDE) – Codelobster PHP Edition

If you are looking to get into the some of the deeper aspects of website and blog design, my HTML tutorial for beginners is a good place to start. Whether you are learning HTML or some other language, a good IDE is a must to make the process as easy as possible. There are many […]

Justin Hall: Blogging Pioneer

Blogging has evolved perhaps more quickly than any form of writing before it. While The Blog Starter is geared towards helping up and coming bloggers create their blogs and websites to define the future of the internet, I feel it is also important for contemporary bloggers to have a sense of how blogging began as […]

Blogging for Moms

Each day I receive dozens of personal emails from my readers, who email me directly after reading my tutorial on starting a blog. Sometimes they need a little extra guidance from me and sometimes they just want to write me a note to say thank you for putting together my easy-to-use guide. While I love […]

How to Start a Website with Joomla

When the internet was experiencing its first big boom back in the 1990s, building a website required serious technical knowledge. At a minimum, you needed to be fluent in programming languages such as HTML, CSS and Javascript just to build a simple website. These days, almost anyone can create a beautiful and fully functional website […]

Monitoring your Blog

Once you’ve created your blog and spent time building your audience, you will want to make sure to protect all your hard work. One of the nice things about being a blogger is that you can take some days off here and there and still have your blog up and running. But this doesn’t mean […]