Blog - The Blog Starter

In the articles below you will find tips & tricks for new bloggers. If you still haven't started your blog, use my easy beginner's guide to create one and then come back to this page later.

How to Make Your WordPress Blog Private

There are several reasons you may want to have a private blog. You may want to keep your blog private when you are first configuring things to avoid having people see your blog “under construction”. You may also want to create a blog that is not intended for a large audience, but rather just for […]

How to Start a Travel Blog

This article goes into the details of how to start a travel blog. For this article to make sense you should at least have your blog software installed first. If you don’t, check out my free blogging tutorial, and then come back to this article later. As traveling becomes ever more affordable to the masses, […]

How to Remove a Page Title in WordPress

Note: This tutorial is for WordPress.org blogs. If you are still using a WordPress.com blog the process may be different. To unleash the full power of WordPress you should considering moving from WordPress.com to WordPress.org. At its core, WordPress is very much a content management system for blogging, but thanks to its open-source status and […]

Free PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript editor (IDE) – Codelobster PHP Edition

If you are looking to get into the some of the deeper aspects of website and blog design, my HTML tutorial for beginners is a good place to start. Whether you are learning HTML or some other language, a good IDE is a must to make the process as easy as possible. There are many […]

Justin Hall: Blogging Pioneer

Blogging has evolved perhaps more quickly than any form of writing before it. While The Blog Starter is geared towards helping up and coming bloggers create their blogs and websites to define the future of the internet, I feel it is also important for contemporary bloggers to have a sense of how blogging began as […]

Blogging for Moms

Each day I receive dozens of personal emails from my readers, who email me directly after reading my tutorial on starting a blog. Sometimes they need a little extra guidance from me and sometimes they just want to write me a note to say thank you for putting together my easy-to-use guide. While I love […]