also spracht martad

I think the reason why my first attempts at installing WP did not succeed, was that I did not take the time to stop and think long enough to lay down a decent installation plan. So before moving on, I suggest that you take the time to identify the following elements and make notes that will help you through the installation process:

A.    Expected number of blog users

B.    Expected number of blogs per user

C.    Domain mapping and URI of blogs
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Identifying one’s requirements can greatly help in choosing the right solution. Before moving on, I believe it’s worth for you to compare your requirements and expectations with mine. The next steps will obviously make more sense, the more similar our situations are.

Requirement #1

I maintain a number of personal and business Websites. Some of our clients and ourselves wanted a way to make topical or time-sensitive information available on the Web, without having to meet any of the following conditions:

1. having to depend on myself (as the Webmaster) to create a new or update an existing Website, or
2. having to learn HTML, FTP, nor any other basic Web publishing skills.

Requirement No. 1 is therefore that final users do not need to have any knowledge of Web design, HTML, file transfer procedures, server access etc.
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(best experienced with an account on pair.com and an Apple computer running Mac OS X)

OK, so you’ve heard of how wonderful it is to have a blog, and now you want to install WordPress. I know how it feels. I’ve had exactly the same thought several times in the past - at least three times, I’d say, starting with WP version 1.2-mingus or thereabouts.

On the surface, WordPress sounded very easy and very convincing right from the beginning - but I must be a real dodo, because I had to go through the constantly growing online documentation, the Codex, the forums, the linked tutorials, more tutorials I came across by accident, etc., many many times before things started to click and make some real sense for me. I guess there was just too much for my old head to get round it quickly - so for a couple of times at least, I got where I thought I was really close to having my blogs going… but had instead to surrender to their not being working, and give up.
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According to the commonly available instructions, installing WordPress is a matter of five minutes. I have found this to be not exactly true, and had in fact to go through a lot of troubles and tribulations before reaching the point, today, where some sort of blog could be made available on the Web.

After investing a significative number of hours in research and experiments, I am beginning to get a good grasp on the intricacies of choosing and installing some kind of blogging software. So as time allows, I will be publishing here a series of tutorials, which I hope will help people like me (i.e., non-programmers) install a Weblog application on your Website.

Because WordPress is the first blog I have attempted to install, I will of course start from my own version of the (in)famous WordPress 5-minute install.

The first tutorial I am working on is called:

The famous WordPress 5-minute installation revisited, aka Grandma’s No-Fail WP Multiple Blog Installation Tutorial

More to come…