As I mentioned in a Previous post i gave the 1 year of free hosting won at the Lunarpages contest to Tim, a.k.a Freeky 8, who already started blogging and posting on his new blog freeky8′s blog.

In the past day’s i’ve been teaching him the basics of blogging,and how to manage stuff in the admin panel like installing new themes,plugins editing the settings etc. Of course i could have done it for him but that wouldn’t have been fun at all! So i made him install the new theme and a set of plugins which i told him to download/upload/ and install. After that with my help he setup the plugins, and now he has a fully functional, entertaining and seo friendly blog.

What’s left is to explain to him what widgets actually are and how to manage/use them and to introduce him to Gravatar, Flickr and other services used by bloggers, after which i will teach him how to pump up a brand new blog to get some traffic and audience.

His blog will be mostly about movie and music reviews and gaming combined with general life events.

I’m also thinking of making a guide to new bloggers exatly about these things: how to make a successful startup blog and how to make it evolve, but we’ll see, because at this point i’m busy way over my head.

Congratulations Tim, and welcome to the world of blogging!

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