Originally Posted by SEO_Mike

Awesome! Great to see so much participation so early in the game!

Looks like I need to clarify a few things:

1. How you build your sites / landing pages is unimportant. I'm using WPMU, but that doesn't mean you have to. I may even do some static sites for shits and giggles.
2. Reading and learning is great, but your learning will accelerate like crazy by doing. So, IMO, it's best to jump in with both feet.
3. If you are uncomfortable with scripts like WP, but have some basic HTML knowledge, build a static site and go from there. If you need help installing Wordpress or another script, ask for help. If I can't help, then there is probably someone else that can.

Turbolapp asked me via PM what the next step is after getting Wordpress installed. Well, let's start by pointing people to this thread for the definitive answer. I'll provide the short answer.

After I get Wordpress installed, I'll upload several different themes and plugins. Once I get the themes and plugins uploaded, I'll go about setting all the options I want and turning on the plugins.

This is the list of options I change / edit:

• Under Options, I edit the tagline, blog address (if needed), membership and what day of the week to start on. WP defaults to Monday, I like it to start on Sunday. Then hit "Update" to save.
• Next, I go to the Writing tab and add some additional sites to ping under Update Services. This is the list I currently use:
  Code:

  http://rpc.pingomatic.com
  http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
  http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
  http://ping.myblog.jp
  http://ping.bitacoras.com
  http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
  http://bblog.com/ping.php