Hi Chris - I only mentioned self-hosting because somebody else had done so, and because I was struggling with Wordpress. I think I've actually made some progress now with Wordpress, so will see how I go.
Thanks - Andy On 5 Oct 2013, at 16:02, "Christopher-Mark Gilland" <ch...@clgproductions.com> wrote: > Andy, > > Though we cannot offer direct support per sey on WordPress, my company does > offer web hosting, and we can install Wordpress for you on your account for > free, so if hosting is part of the issue as you seemed to be stating in your > post, sorry if I misunderstood your statement about self-hosting, let us > know, and maybe we can help you out. > > If interested, let me know off list at: > > ch...@clgproductions.com > > We could get you set up for as little as $5.00 per month. > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Collins" <a...@recreation.plus.com> > To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net> > Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2013 9:59 AM > Subject: Re: Wordpress help please > > >> Hi Christopher - >> >> I've used both Safari and Google Chrome with Wordpress, with much the same >> results. >> >> I'm wondering if there might be an easier way to go. Self-hosting has been >> mentioned, but that sounds pretty tricky too. >> >> I've had a look on the applevis website for any helpful podcasts on >> blogging, but could only find one pertaining to the iPhone app. I listened >> to it, but the presenter was having a bit of a struggle herself with one or >> two things - >> >> Andy >> >> On 5 Oct 2013, at 14:15, "Christopher-Mark Gilland" >> <ch...@clgproductions.com> wrote: >> >>> Andy, >>> >>> You've certainly done, by the sound of your post, an excellent job at >>> researching things. I commend you for looking at the help pages. That's >>> not something that a lot of people would do. >>> >>> Let me ask you a question, sir. Are you using Mars Edit to post to your >>> blog, or are you just using the wordpress web site with Safari? >>> >>> If the latter, I'll see if I can help you, but I normally don't do it that >>> way. This being said though, I can look at my blog and try to help you >>> out, if needed. >>> >>> Chris. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Collins" <a...@recreation.plus.com> >>> To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net> >>> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2013 7:15 AM >>> Subject: Wordpress help please >>> >>> >>>> hi all - >>>> >>>> I'm having a difficult experience with Wordpress. >>>> >>>> I've created my blog account, and written my first post of introduction, >>>> and had somebody look at it for me. All that they see is a lot of what I >>>> am taking to be tags from the post, and not the post itself. >>>> >>>> I haven't got to grips with adding tags to a post yet, so it seems like >>>> wordpress itself has just created them by pulling together groups of words >>>> from sentences. This is quite meaningless as a tag, but as yet, as I say, >>>> I've not got to grips with how tags can be added, changed or deleted. >>>> >>>> The big thing for now is that my post doesn't actually seem to be >>>> available in it's complete form as I wrote it. I did click the publish >>>> button, and got a message to say it had been published, but all that >>>> appears to anybody trying to read it, is this set of 4 or 5 word extracts, >>>> that I'm assuming to be tags, and the word tag is onscreen, just before >>>> these jumbled extracts. These tags/extracts are clickible links, but >>>> clicking them just capitalises the text, and makes it larger. >>>> >>>> I've read a lot fo the help pages provided by wordpress themselves, but am >>>> still stuck. 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