Do you find that your blog posts sometimes get very long and you would like to make it easier for your readers to navigate around in your blog? It is then useful to create links within your website or blog. So how can you do this?

Well you need a little bit of coding to create a link within your website or blog.  You can set is up in a few easy steps:

1. Locate where you want to link from.

2. Within your wordpress dashboard and  for the post /page what you would like to update:  Click on ‘HTML’ page to be able edit the coding of your page

3. Add the following code around the text you want to link from:
<a href="#ShortKeyWord">The text you want to link from</a>

4. Locate where you want to link to. You can link to a specific word or sentence or just to a location (ie have your location in mid air).

5. Put the following code around the text you would like to link to or before or after the text you would like to link to. The code to add is:
<a name="ShortKeyWord">You can put some text here or not</a>

6.  Publish/update your page and you have created a link within your website or blog!

# The ‘ShortKeyWord’ can be any word you like. Keep it short and simple, and preferably without special characters or spaces.

So here an example:
If you would like to link FROM HERE to the top of the page:
1. We located where we wanted to link from

2. We click on the HTML page

3. We replace ‘FROM HERE’ with the code<a href="#top">FROM HERE></a>

4. We located where we wanted to link to: ie the top of the page

5.  We add the following code at the top of the page
<a name="top"></a>

6. Save/update the page. Done!

Good luck

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Installing Wordpress on your website

In this video is explained how to install Wordpress on your website. Just follow the step by step instructions for easy installation.

If you prefer to read, use the following steps:

1. Login to your hosting account

2. Select the account you would like to install the application on

3. Click on ‘Your Applications’

4. Select the application which you would like to install – go to : ‘Blogs – Wordpress’

5. Start the installation by clicking the ‘install now’ button

6. Follow the installation instructions – remember to write down your database password and your admin login details!

7. Choose the directory you would like the application to be installed in – this can be within a directory called ‘blog’ or ‘wordpress’, but you can also decide to install the application in the root directory. Just leave the field where you can choose the directory blank

Once the application is installed (this takes a couple of minutes, a confirmation email will be send to you), you can login to your dashboard on: http://yourdomainname.com/wp-admin.

To login you need the username and password you created.

Good luck!

How to install a Worpress theme – from start to finish.

What is a ‘Wordpress theme’?

Your theme dictates the design and feel of your website and gives you the control over the look and presentation of your material.

How to get a theme?

You can find all Wordpress themes which have been checked and inspected and are free for downloading from the WordPress Theme Directory. You can search the wordpress themes by type and style, and see a demonstration of the page view elements of the Theme.

You can also choose to pay for a theme. You might think ‘why would I want to pay for wordpress themes, if I can get them for free?’.

Well, for example, Thesis boasts the strongest SEO of any theme on the market today thanks to its expertly-coded HTML + CSS + PHP framework. Not only that, Thesis also contains additional options that will allow you to fine-tune each and every page of your site. The days of worrying about your in-site SEO are over—with Thesis, your strategy is “just add killer content.”

Also a paid theme, like Thesis, has strong support and their own support forums where you can get any question answered. All good reasons to pay for wordpress themes.

How to install a Worpress theme

In this video is explained how to install a theme for wordpress. Just follow the step by step instructions for easy installation.

If you prefer to read, use the following steps:

1. Login to your dashboard on ‘http://yourdomainname.com/wp-admin’ with your username and password

2. Select on your main dashboard ‘change theme’

3. In the left column, under the menu ‘Appearance’ the ‘Add new theme’ button will show – click the button

4. To install a free theme: select your criteria, press ‘Find Themes’. Wordpress will search for a theme.
Select the theme you like and press ‘install’

5. You might want to download a theme from a website (for example if you use the Thesis theme). Go to the relevant website, dowload the zip file and save it on your computer

6. Once you have downloaded the file. Go to your dasboard to the left column: ‘Appereance’ – ‘Add new Themes’.
On the page that just opened, you will find under the header ‘Install themes’ a link called ‘upload’. Press the link and in the new page press ‘browse’: select the zip file of the wordpress theme on your computer. Press ‘open’ and then ‘upload’

7. The theme will automatically be installed

8. To activate the theme: press ‘activate’!

You have now installed your wordpress theme

Good luck!