versus free wordpress hosting at wordpress.com

Below is also a link to  comparison of American hosts vs Australian hosts for space for word press hosting

Check out costs for australian blog with the popular platform  wordpress vs  some american hosting

companies that  facilitate woprdpress blogs

As you can see in the pic above  some of the more popular hosting companies for wordpress

are Bluehost , hostgator , Godaddy and  Dreamhost

FOR getting some good wordpress themes to fit out your blog  check out the theme providers

below to  give it a professional looking design( starting with $39 for 80 + themes for a year with elegant themes)

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Word-press hosting  Scene in Australia

WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog.  WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time , but  you would have to buy a hosting plan if you  are planning to get your own domain and want freedom to customise your blog as you please .

Word press is so easy to manage and use  that many small businesses and corporate companies are switching  to this format  for their websites in increasing numbers. There is an increasing number of well known names like  the wall street journal, ford , techcrunch  , ebay and boing boing that  are jumping on the wordpress bandwagon to promote their stuff to the internet audience

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How to get a wordpress blog up and running ?

It’s Easy As…

1. Find a Web Host and get great hosting while supporting WordPress at the same time.
2. Download & Install WordPress with our famous 5-minute installation( or most hosting companies now offer 1 click wordpress installs). Feel like a rock star.
3. Read the Documentation and become a WordPress expert yourself, impress your friends.

US WordPress hosting and Australian Providers

A comparison chart between some top us WordPress hosts and Aussie hosting companies

For hosting a word press blog there are two popular services and websites , www.wordpress.com and www.wordpress.org

I get this question all the time… from bloggers, entrepreneurs, small business owners, even big business executives

Most WordPress blog hosting companies provides a  cpanel which make sit much easier to  navigate the inner bits of where your blog resides

The difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org

According to the stats on WordPress.com, there are currently over sixty million WordPress-based websites in the world, with about half hosted on WordPress.com, and over 100,000 new WordPress websites are created every day.

WordPress.com hosts the site on their servers, so you don’t have to do anything about finding a host or ISP. All you need to do is register with WordPress.com and then launch a blog. WordPress.com provides a limited amount of space and customization options. WordPress.com does not allow you to include advertisements of any kind.

WordPress.org is a stand-alone version that you or someone has to download and then install on a separate web host (or ISP). WordPress.org also allows for advertising, a custom domain, custom email addresses and more, just because it is software  that is available for free and you will need to get a host for that software.

Related links for Hosting

• Hostgator  for blog hosting?
• Blogging with WordPress
• Tutorial – Start a Free Blog with WordPress
• http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2067804
•  Reviews wordPress hosting providers

 

Good luck finding  a wordpress host suitable to you

ADOBE , APPLE and Microsoft

According to he online magazine and consumer group Choice

Australians pay 70% more to rock out to AC/DC’s Back in Black on iTunes

A  graphic designer in Adelaide pays $3175 to buy Adobe CS6 Design and Web Premium when a designer in Los Angeles only has to pay $US1899?

A small business in Sydney pays $599 to buy Microsoft’s Office Professional 2013 when a business in San Francisco only has to pay $US399.99

Image from choice.com.au below

Apple, Adobe and Microsoft have finally been held accountable for their High prices in Australia with a IT

pricing inquiry, with the three companies summonsed to explain their pricing before a public hearing.

But i just realised  that you also get stuff for free  from  them if you sign up with them while  buying a  theme from them

The full moon HTML template

Today i logged into the  portal and was pleased to see  a  “Free template “ offered by theme forest just for being a member

This is not a wordpress template , but  its ideal  to make a  seo optimised html website ( or emarketing website) with all the groundwork and design already done for you

What features  this full moon template has

Description & Features
• jQuery slider
• jQuery featured list
• Twitter integration
• Working contact form
• 4 color schemes
• 25 pre-made pages
• Image and video gallery
• Fancy tooltip

Enjoy !!

I’ve already  written about  the  importance of reader engagement and developing a community around your website in this brave new world where reader  time on ytour website is important , and this new plugin can certainly help further that cause. Mingle WordPress is a plugin I recently discovered, and I have to say I’m quite pleased with its usefulness,  functionality and its ease of implementation.

After you get  the  Mingle WordPress installed and activated, your site has the potential to become its own social network with its interactive features enabled.

Imagine a scaled-down version of Facebook, Google Plus , only right here on your own website.

Here some of the current features provided by the  WP Mingle wordpress plugin:

• Members can set up there own user profile page complete with a bio and photo.
• Members can “friend” other members and communicate with them via direct comment to them on the site.
• Member directory page.
• Email Notifications for members.

For a full list of the features and an example of how a Mingle-powered site runs, visit WordPress Mingle, and set up your own user profile.

As I said, this is a relatively  recent  released plugin, and  there is possibility of additional features rolling out in the near future.

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