Setting up your my own site / blog

A WIP diary of the research, planning & steps to setting up my own site.

Planning: I've written a list of all of the types of articles, subjects that I think I'll create - so that I can then,

1. Define what the site's objective is
2. who will be interested in the articles
3. what functionality I may want to integrate e.g. my flickr account photos, twitter etc.

Resources: A list of site I've used to research/plan - what I'll build my site in, any design resources.

Build - http://wordpress.org/ - Wordpress, an open source resource recommended to me as the best for building your own site.

Hosting - Wordpress self hosted option was recommended to me. Next, find someone who can host it.

Domain name - I haven't chosen that yet, until I fully scope what my site will do/be.

Design - http://themeforest.net/ a useful site recommended to me as a good resource for buying premium Wordpress design templates for only about $30. Apparently the free Wordpress design templates aren't very good.

  

Best places to find good ones:

ALL FILES> Top Authors

ALL FILES> Populare files

Wordpress Themes - sorted by "Most sales" - may also help you see what others are buying

http://themeforest.net/category/wordpress/blog-magazine?sort_by=sales_count&categories=wordpress%2Fblog-magazine&page=1

 http://themeforest.net/item/flowhub/101197?WT.ac=category_thumb&WT.seg_1=category_thumb&WT.z_author=Monkify like the clear navigation & simple design

Once you go to a publisher - go to "live preview" to see what a site would look like

Clean Cut -
  http://themeforest.net/item/cleancut-business-and-portfolio-wordpress-theme/109677?WT.ac=category_thumb&WT.seg_1=category_thumb&WT.z_author=Kriesi

Big Feature -

 clean & simple, but not sure it will be right for me. http://themeforest.net/item/bigfeature-wordpress-theme/51702?WT.ac=category_item&WT.seg_1=category_item&WT.z_author=vfxdude

Community:

http://themeforest.net/item/marketplace-community-wordpress-theme/68073?WT.ac=category_thumb&WT.seg_1=category_thumb&WT.z_author=Maximus

My Wordpress:

http://themeforest.net/item/my-wordpress/39678?WT.ac=category_thumb&WT.seg_1=category_thumb&WT.z_author=kailoon

Repro:

http://themeforest.net/item/repro-premium-wordpress-news-magazine-theme/138755?WT.ac=category_item&WT.seg_1=category_item&WT.z_author=OrmanClark