I’m about to publish a series of videos covering everything about blogging starting with installing the software on a webhost to tweaking themes. Here’s a tentative table of contents.

1. Installing Wordpress
   1. Creating a database, username and password
   2. Downloading the latest version of wordpress and uploading the files to your webhost
   3. Installing the software
2. First tasks
   1. Changing the admin password from the autogenerated password
   2. Setting the name you want displayed on your posts instead of “admin”
   3. Setting the date and time to your zone
   4. Changing permalinks from landscapestartup.com/?p=1 to landscapestartup.com/about
   5. Deleting the “Hello World” post
   6. Deleting default blogroll
3. Pages
   1. Standard pages that every landscaping blog should have
   2. Answer questionnaire  to make the best copywriting possible for each page
4. Setting up the posts
   1. Add general categories for organizing blog posts
   2. Talk about tags
   3. Demonstrate uploading and inserting images, video and audio to a blog post
   4. Formatting blog posts. What do all these buttons do?
5. Adding new themes
   1. Where to get themes
   2. Free vs Premium
   3. Tweaking a theme
6. Adding plugins
   1. What is a plugin?
   2. Essential plugins
   3. Can you really have too many plugins?
7. Search Engine Optimization
8. Lead Generation
   1. Landing pages
   2. Contact forms
   3. Email subscriptions
   4. Phone calls
9. Advertising online
   1. Search engine marketing
   2. Facebook
   3. Local blogs and websites
   4. Craigslist
   5. Forums

Please leave a comment with any suggestions or topics you’d like to see. Videos will start uploading on Monday.