If you are collaborating with other people in making blog posts or website pages, there are ways to save yourself a lot of trouble in getting the text to look like you want on the site. Let’s say you receive a document from a friend who asks you to put [...]

Nearing this year’s end, I want to express my thanks for your business and for passing the word about Teledavis.  May the holidays be restful, and may your new year be bright!

To access the controls on the Dashboard of a WordPress website you have to first log in to the “back end” of the website, using the administrator user name and password for that site.  There are two ways to do this: 1.  Scroll down to the bottom right hand of [...]

When an administrator logs into a WordPress website he/she gets access to the "back end" of the site (as opposed to the "front end", which is what the public sees when they visit the site).  The back end is the control center for the website.  The main page in the [...]

If you depend on one person to maintain your website you’re headed for a fall.  Eventually that person will move away, or get too busy and decide to resign.  Then you’re back to square one, with no skills to maintain your site, and less money than you had before. Other [...]

When my father taught me how to sail, before we shoved off for the first time he insisted I learn the names for parts of the boat: bow, stern, port, starboard, mast, mainsail, jib, and so on.  It took a while to "learn the ropes," as old time sailors put [...]

The internet is the poor man’s route to publishing.  When you prepare a page on your personal computer and are ready to share it with the world on the internet, you publish that page.  There is a button in WordPress for publishing.  When you press that button the copy of [...]

Welcome to the WordPress Primer blog, where you’ll learn the fundamentals of WordPress, a free and easy-to-use online software that was originally developed for blogging, but now is used for many other kinds of websites too. Through my company, Teledavis, LLC, I help "the little guy" with affordable and user-friendly [...]

Welcome to this blog for newcomers to WordPress.  Watch here for articles to help you learn about this terrific free content management system.

Yep, sure enough, a point-and-shoot camera, the Leica D-Lux4, an expensive point and shoot. But many others that are ...