Just wanna have some practice of my written English skills.

Web 2.0 is really hot these days. I don’t know who invent this term. A lot of new terms came out and I didn’t even know, such as trackback, tags, technorati, flickr and so on. When I google something, more and more blogs are shown as results. Maybe its time to get a blog now.

It is not easy to pick a stable and suitable blog system. So, I google it. It seems wordpress is the most popular one. Ok, let’s do it.

First thing is to find a place to host the blog. One of my friend have a dedicated server, which I could count on it. However, the server has no php, no mysql, and has been crushed for 2 days, oops. I need web hosting service. Obviously, Dreamhost has good recommendations among bloggers. And the most important thing is cheap! It only takes me $24.40(annually), and I get 4.8GB disk storage, 120GB monthly Bandwidth, Unlimited MySql, and a domain name.

Installation of WordPress is a piece of cake. But it is complex to manage it well, as there are a huge amount of plugins. Here is some useful plugins, I may have some of them installed later.

1。Brian’s Latest Comments
2。Event Calendar
3。Jerome’s Keywords
4。WP-OnlineCounter
5。wp-pager
6。WYSI-Wordpress
7。Sideblog
8。KG Archives
9。……

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