I am just posting a few social links to make sure I have entered them right before going public.

Facebook

MySpace

Last FM

Frappr

If the blog that you are using is a WordPress.com blog, this is different from a WordPress.org blog in that .com are run by Automattic as a hosted service whereas .org is the same platform but run by users on their own sites.
With WordPress.com this means that you are limited to using only the theme templates that are pre-loaded. There are still plenty of choices, around 58 themes are available several of which are three column.
To access them you need to be logged in to your account at http://wordpress.com/
Your first screen should be similar to this:

As you look along your toolbar you will see “Presentation”:

Click on that tab and you will be taken to this page:

From here you can select any of the 50+ themes that are shown as you scroll down the page. Other things that you can do from here is add widgets to your sidebar and in some cases add your own header, as I have done on my Joss Whedon blog at:
http://whedonsworld.wordpress.com/

I hope these instructions are helpful, but if anyone is still having problems please feel free to leave a comment.

You can now find me over at www.ukstevieb.com with my Shiny new site!

So I had a little look around at some of the suggested hosts, Iliked the idea of BlueHost but when I got as far as paying for it and realised they wanted all the cash up front . . . well I did a runner.

I took a look at Yahoo too, seemed they were quite happy to take my money monthly, but still, paying out seemed like such a big step to take on something that semed to work pretty good for free.

I guess the question I need to ask myself is, “Am I going to host this blog myself?”.

Short answer being “Yes” but the reality being that I can’t to afford to do this at the moment. Is there a vast difference in hosting this here “on-site” and hosting it myself? I guess the best way to find out will be to head out around the web and visit a few off-site pages and see what you guys are up to.

If anyone comes across this blog and wants to give some advice my cyber-thanks is already heading your way.

So my Mother, like all Mothers, likes to give advice. Some good, some not so. The advice “Better to be silent and thought an idiot than speak and prove it” undoubtedly falls in to the category of “good”, but like all her other advice I am going to ignore it anyway.

Blogs seem to be very popular in this day and age, so much so that some seem to be able to make a living at it. Not me, mind! I earn my living by manual labour. I don’t say this to in anyway denigrate those that can make a living through their intellect, just pointing out that if you stumble across this weblog, please don’t expect too much from it.

Hopefully I will use this service a little more than I have some of my previous attempts, maybe getting the hang of some of the more interesting features. At least this one has a spellchecker, saving me from too much embarrassment.

I only started using a computer about two years ago and still tend to “peck” at the keyboard rather than type, so maybe having this set up will encourage me to make a bit more of an effort to improve my skills.

Anyways, I am now off to check out some of the features around here, hopefully I will get back to you again this side of new year.