About 10 minutes ago, I stumbled upon a great tool – WordMobi . I was directed to this site by an unofficial Nokia E71 blog – E71.wordpress.com. WordMobi is available here . The developer claims that the application will work without any trouble on Nokia E71 and has also been tested on Symbian 5 series . It requires Python to be installed on the phone before WordMobi is installed and there is a very good installation guide here .

I particularly like the insert options. There is no need for you to know HTML anymore. The application has everything set for you, in form of start and stop. So if you want to insert a link, all you need to do is select Insert Link , and type the address. You can continue o write your text after that, and once you are done, again go to Insert Link and select it!

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I logged in to my account and found that I had to update the WordPress installation to 2.7.1 from 2.7. Thanks to the latest 2.7 version, this task is now automated. I remember downloading the WordPress files and uploading them one by one to my server to update it every time there was an update. Slow Internet and the GoDaddy limit of uploading one file at a time made the entire process very frustrating.

After the single click update, the first thing that I did was to change the default theme of the blog. It is important to make the blog look good, and that is one reason I moved from the Windows Live Spaces. WordPress offers hundreds of beautiful themes for the blog, making customizations easy.

It is not difficult to change the theme of the blog. There are hundreds of free and premium themes available online. You can Google for a good WordPress theme and then download it. It needs to be copied to the /wp-content/themes/ folder in your installation.

Once you have the theme copied, It will be available in the appearance menu in your blog’s admin panel.

After changing the theme, next most important thing is to check the URLs of the blog. It is a pity that if you will not change the URL (permalink) of your blog then they will appear in a machine like format

http://shashankrana.com/?p=100

To change these URLs, you need to have a few permissions from your webhost. If you manage your own server then there are no issues otherwise you may want to check before you activate permalinks for your blog. You need to check THIS POST HERE about Pretty Permalinks and then you can also check THIS POST HERE for the solution that I use. There are various ways of making your blog URL look readable. The ones here are easy and fast.

I will continue this in the next post. Do write in if you have any questions or a better way of doing things.

I wish to thank a few people for this. Foremost is WordPress, for the most beautiful piece of code that I have ever seen. They are correct, code is poetry! Then I would like to thank Jai Nischal Verma from Blog Oh! Blog, for the wonderful theme that I am using here. And finally, I wish to thank Paint.net, the one software that makes editing images easy. The logo of this website has been created using Paint.net.

There are a few things that I need to do before I can consider this complete. I need to look for a few plugins so that I can ensure that this blog works the way I expect it to. Then I need to see if the widgets in WordPress are working correctly. I need to add the Akismet code to save myself from all the spam that is going to be generated. Lastly, I need to check if this setup will work with Windows Live Writer or not.

So much for it!