You need knowledge and, of course, skills. What to do?

Think about what do you already know about, such as:

websites

hosts

autoresponders

and anything else you think is important.

You’re not only looking for the extent and depth of your knowledge but also the gaps in it.

Once you’ve got this kind of “map” of what you need, choose one aspect or area that appeals to you or is important and concentrate on it.

For example, if you have absolutely no idea about blogs and blogging, focus on this until you have enough understanding and some experience in doing something about or with blogs before you move on. The emphasis here is knowing or understanding enough for what you want to do: a starting point.

So, where or how would you find out about blogs, for example?

Some obvious sources are these:

newsletters on internet marketing, and blogging specifically

forums on internet marketing and blogging

places like Yahoo! Answers(TM)

wiki pages

There are plenty of others.

How to find any of the sources?

You can use the search engines, click through links on those sources suggested above, and you could use the free Google Alerts(TM) service to be referred to lots of places. In all of this, you’ll quickly find which ideas are repeated, which are useless, and begin to discriminate for the best information – all part of growing your knowledge.

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Here’s how I got the blog back up  again:

1 Went to my cPanel in my hosting account

2 Went to files

3 Brought up the site name and then plugins

4 Found the plugin (contact form) causing the problem –  on the right hand side

5 Highlighted that and clicked Rename buttton at top of the page

6 In small window that comes up I renamed the plugin – simply entered a dash between words

7 Clicked OK and it was renamed

8 This deactivates the plugin

9 Site was then back online

(It tells you this in the WP Dashboard – of course, I couldn’t access it – so asked hosting to help)

Great! But still a problem as the plugin will not activate. I found at the plugin site, you have to enter a specific code in the source code. I paid someone to set up the site for me (I’m not a techie by any stretch) and they might have put in the wrong code.

So, working on changing that bit of code. Contact form is down meanwhile – you can comment now without having to register to the blog – which is what I wanted to do in the first place!

Hope this helps!

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