Hello boys and girls, and welcome to today’s episode. We will be reaching out from our bovine blog to help one of our biggest fans, who’s been with us since day one. Mahdi Yusuf has kindly requested our help in his quest for online fame and glory and as the saying goes;”Whoever needs milk, bows to the animal. ~Yiddish Saying”, and that’s just what he did via an email that made our udders tingle.

mahdi yusuf wrote:

Hey John Cow,

i am a new blogger, and i have just purchased my new domain
thekingkongblog.com, and i was wondering if, you had anypointers, and advice,
secondly, i am having extreme difficulty trying to get access to the domain i
purchased, and how do i upload stuff to it, i know this is every simple, for
you but it really frustrating please help! i made it with bluefur.com

Thanks
Mahdi Yusuf

Well Mahdi, first off all, I hope you’ve used the coupon code “JohnCowRocksJohnChowRocks”, since that gives you 15% off all services provided by Bluefur. Remember that saving moooney equals making moooney and that’s just what we try and teach you here.

Second, I suggest you recheck the domain name you mailed me as it seems that thekingkongblog.com has not been registered .. yet. This would also explain why you are having those extreme difficulties trying to get access to your domain.

Great, now we’ve got that minor issue out of the way, we can go ahead and have a look how exactly you can access, organize and publish your brand new blog. Isn’t it exciting?! Just imagine your going to have all those people hanging on your every word you’ve typed, and all the ads they will be clicking, making you the next Shooomoney!

Tools for the job:

An FTP client like SmartFTP can be downloaded for free.

is recommended as a browser. (and sponsored by Google).

Once you’re domain is set-up and points to the IP address where you webserver is located, you can use the FTP program to login and add your files to the WWW or Public_HTML folder. This is the main (webroot) folder where people end up when they browse to yourdomain.com. Setting up Wordpress and mySQL can be a pain if you’ve never done this before, and I strongly recommend to use an auto-installer like Fantastico, which often comes with cPanel. I’m not sure if Bluefur provides this, you might want to contact them to see if that can get setup for you. Saves you a lot of headaches and frustration.

Once the base has been set, and you’ve got your first “Hello World!” post, the fun begins. Start looking for cool wordpress themes and nifty plugins to design your blog exactly the way you like it. Just remember that looks aren’t everything, it’s content which counts most. We are all beautiful on the inside! Even cows.