First off, thank you everyone so much for your kind words about the new site. You guys are awesome. I think it looks nicer than the old site – but I’ve had so many people rave about how much they love the new one. /blush!

Despite a few hiccups and frustrations, I really enjoyed putting it together, and now I get to actually use it! :P

There are still a few bits and pieces I need to fix, but they are minor, and can wait until I have a few spare moments. I also have a couple of blogroll links to fix up, I’ll try and do that soon (don’t forget to let me know if your link has changed, or you want to be added).


How to do it for yourself

While I was creating the new site, I put together a bunch of pages that didn’t exist on the old one. One of those pages is in the Guides area, and it’s all about how to create your own WoW blog.

Phae’s original article is what first inspired me to start up my blog, and since I haven’t seen anything similar since then, and since the blogging community is in a constant state of flux, I thought there might be some budding bloggers out there who needed that gentle nudge forward to get them started.

This is your nudge! If you want to start your own but you feel a little overwhelmed, or you’re not sure where to start, this should help.




Click here for the full article:     Advice on starting your own blog


Topics covered:

  • Planning

  • Getting started
  • The pros and cons of self-hosting
  • Finding a host and securing a domain
  • Installing WordPress (if you’re self-hosting)
  • Choosing your blog’s look and layout
  • Graphics
  • Your first post – and beyond
  • What to write
  • When to write
  • Advertising
  • A few mistakes to avoid (this is valuable!!)
  • Resources


Plus a “TLDR” summary at the end, which is basically a checklist of things to do (and not do) when you set out to make your own blog.





TBJ is almost a year old now. I’ve made a lot of mistakes, learned from the other bloggers, and gone through the transition of free hosted blogging to self hosted, css-wrangling code jockey. I used to build websites on and off, but it was probably the best part of a decade ago.. and I kinda stopped around the time that CSS was really taking off. So I understood the concept of CSS, but didn’t have much experience – which made editing my theme quite difficult. Nothing that a bit of reverse engineering or plain old guesswork couldn’t fix, though. And voila! I got there in the end!

You don’t have to start out with anything fancy, though. The most important thing is what you write, not how pretty it looks. Some of the best WoW blogs out there have very plain layouts, but their content is what draws readers in and keeps them. So don’t worry too much about having a fancy blog – jump onto WordPress.com or Blogspot and start up a free blog (and they still have great themes you can use).

Make sure you do a little planning first, as I have explained in the article – but if you really want to blog, don’t put it off – jump in and give it a try.

And if you’re a new druid blogger, drop me a line and give me a link to your site so I can check it out and add it to my blogroll! :)

Come join the WoW blogging family!



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