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I’ve tried several times installing wordpress on my own hosting. However, I’ve always failed. The main cause of my failure was my ignorance of the role of database in a website. Well, you know, as I’ve always told you times and times again, I’m still a newbie in this continent, man. Another reason is because articles about how to install WordPress manually usually starts from “downloading” the .zip file from http://wordpress.org and then uploading it to our FTP. Well, I don’t mean to find a scapegoat, but I can’t lie that such factor contributed to my failure in installing WordPress.

Okey, then, let’s see the complete and simple way of installing WordPress on your website.

1. Go to MySQL section of your website. If you use cPanel, you can find it clearly with a catchy icon.

2. Create a new database, and remember the database name, database username, database password, and database host

3. Download WordPress CMS from http://wordpress.org

4. Unzip the .zip file

5. Open a file named wp-config-sample.php with a text editor (I usually use wordpad) and fill in your database detail in the appropriate place. For example, when you find “DB_NAME”, just write the name of your database, “DB_USRNAME”, just write your database username, and so on.

6. Save and close wp-config-sample.php

7. Rename wp-config-sample.php into wp-config.php

8. Upload all the files onto the public_html folder of your server

9. Done with the transfer process, open your web browser and go to http://nameofyoursite.com/wp-admin/install.php (if you install WordPress in the main folder, but if you install it in a special folder called blog, please type http://nameofyoursite.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php )

10.  Then you just need to give an appropriate username and password.

That’s it! You can go blogging. I’ve just intalled my newest blog about my daily life.

Finally, I launched another blog of mine that I get with a free hosting thanks to 000webhost.com. For this blog, I have planned to post any information I get about free stuffs I find over the Internet. Well, as a translator, I begin my blogging days by short-reviewing free dictionary WordWeb. I hope, with this blog I can share all I those free things with people who happen to need free things for their learning or profession. As for my part, well… still I want to learn as much as possible about blogging. That’s it. And I will be thankful if someone contacts me to help him/her advertise things through that blog.

This is one of the big questions hovering over us bloggers and webmasters who wish to attract advertisers to our blog. It has been a great question to me since some time ago. I made a small competition with my friend. I told him that my page rank, visits, and hits will be better than his in two months time. However, it turned out that I still cannot gain Alexa ranking lower that 3 million (for Alexa, the smaller it is, the better it will be).

Following another friend’s advise, I registered my blog in a number of blog directories. I also insert hyperlinks to my posts in mailing lists and online articles. However, I haven’t seem to gain any result from this efforts. Only four or five people visit my site everyday.

From then on, I finally resolved never to ONLY wish to have a good page rank with such efforts. I DO still wish to have a good page rank. Well, it’s not wrong to wish some money from what why do as long as it doesn’t harm people in any possible terms, right? But, I will do it automatically. By this, I mean I will write ONLY worth reading things so that people can take benefits from what I do. In this way, I believe my blog will be useful for other people, and people will visit it because they DO NEED what I write here. When lots of people get what they need from my website, my page rank will automatically surges. THAT IT! Stop wishing to fool people with only useless SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION (by this, I mean SEO will only be useful when you already do the normal ways like creating useful posts).

I remember what a my friend said several weeks ago. We were discussing about Linux (through Yahoo Messenger) when he suddenly changed his status from “available” to “when you buy microsoft, you only get windows, but when you use linux, you’ll get a house and lots of maintenance”. I suddenly burst out in laughter. It was funny and ironically right.

Yeah, when you buy software from microsoft, you’ll find ready to use software. You JUST use it. You USE windows with all its consequences.

But, when you use Linux, you get a very mutable thing. You can modify most of its part–if not all. You can even develop your own Linux (only when you think you’re strong enough…. and it’s never impossible to be strong enough, hehehe).

Ya, that’s when you’re good in Linux “language’. You can expect to get anything from Linux. You can even get a vista-like (or even Mac-like) appearance–which is much beautiful that the ADEQUATELY beautiful windows xp.

However, when you’re still a newbie in it, you can expect yourself to STILL miss windowsness :D, you wish you had panel kontrol–> add/remove software when you’re in a position where you need to install a program. As for myself, this newbie end-user, using Linux is quite a struggle.

However, so far I enjoyed its beautiful compiz, visual effects, which I’ve never found in windows xp. And I’m sure, if more people use Linux, it will get better-and better. I’m sure of it. And I’m quite proud to be among its users.

These days, I’m really involved in a book called Ayat-Ayat Cinta (Verses of Love) by Habiburrahman El-Shirazy. This is a very best-selling Islamic romantic book in Indonesia. A movie director has moviezed this book and the movie itself enjoys a very good welcome by Indonesian viewers.

Basically, this book tells about a protagonist that is very straightly religious in  living his worldly life. We can say as if the protagonist, named Fahri, is a true mirror of Muhammad. All his thoughts, moves, and all reflect those of Muhammad’s.

Well, it is a good way of promoting Islam actually, if only someone would volunteer to translate it into English.

From this post on (to about several posts), I’ll be talking about this book, its strengths, its weaknesses, its too-romantic points and too-saintal parts and all…

So, please be prepared, okey?