Hello World: Geek Your Blog is here

Hello World.  Ben here from Geek Your Blog. I have decided to start a geeky blog that will help other bloggers as they try to navigate the increasingly complex technical world that surrounds blogging.  My wife Allison blogs over at House of Hepworths, a DIY and home decor blog. I have been helping run the backend of her blog for over 3 years now and have learned a lot about WordPress and Blogging throughout the process. I am a geeky techy person at heart with a business degree in Management of Information Systems from the University of Texas. For the last 13 years I’ve worked in Corporate America for Big Blue (IBM), one of the Big 4 Consulting Firms (Capgemini), a startup company (iControl) and Time Warner Cable. I’ve worked with databases, developed in a handful of programming languages and done architecture work for enterprise class applications. This has given me a solid foundation to help run Allison’s blog while she provides all of the content. Having helped her run her blog for over three years now, I’ve realized there is a lot of technical information I’ve learned and can share with you.

The purpose of this blog is to:

• Post content and tutorials on how to do things with your WordPress blog
• Post helpful tips and tricks about blogging and WordPress
• Help you do things yourself that you would normally hire a techy guy to do
• Provide random tech tools that make blogging easier

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For those of you that didn’t get the title and intro of this post, I’ll help you out a little. Whenever learning a programming language, the first thing you do is write a simple program to output Hello World to the screen. In fact, the default install of WordPress has a post titled Hello World. This is my Hello World post…heh heh