Im heavily confused

  • Here is the deal, im starting a webcomic,
    but i have no idea what to do right now.

    I mentioned this on another webforum and they advised me not to go and learn things myself but hire a webdesigner, they however say that a blog (i basically want something like this : https://touchoftentacle.com/wordpress/) should be doable by myself. So im doing things myself, i got my blog already but i found ou t that for a webcomic comicpress is very handy, but to use that it seemed you had to download wordpress (i thought it was an online blog maker? )

    So now ive got the wordpress map and all of its content on my desktop, what now? “:::

    Open up wp-config-sample.php with a text editor like WordPad or similar and fill in your database connection details.

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    <?php
    // ** MySQL settings ** //
    define(‘DB_NAME’, ”); // The name of the database
    define(‘DB_USER’, ”); // Your MySQL username
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password
    define(‘DB_HOST’, ”); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
    define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
    define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

    Ok, the name and password and name of database thing arent a big deal, but what do they want me to fill in at host, charset and collate ? I have no clue

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    then this:
    4: Upload everything

    How?

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    5 Open /wp-admin/install.php in your browser. This should setup the tables needed for your blog. If there is an error, double check your wp-config.php file, and try again.

    Should i fill something in again, or just leave it be?, how do i know if there is an “error”

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    6Note the password given to you.
    7The install script should then send you to the login page. Sign in with the username admin and the password generated during the installation. You can then click on ‘Profile’ to change the password.

    Yeah.. well i cant figure out all the beforehand things so i obviously also dont know what to do with this one..

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    The whole world of making blogs and websites is all greek to me, so can somebody help me out.. and yes, im a clueless newb

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  • You probably want to go here.
    https://wordpress.com
    Sign up for a blog then blog away.

    Thread Starter kgbmarinac

    (@kgbmarinac)

    Okay then, let me put the question differently:
    How do i use comicpress together with wordpress

    https://mindfaucet.com/comicpress/

    I have some basic tutorials on how to do the setup and how to move files to your server at my AWSOM.org website here. I also design plugins for comics/image galleries and my stuff works with ComicPress. Quick thing: don’t worry about the host, charset and collate settings, they probably don’t need to be altered.

    You can do it but there will be lengthy learning curve for you. The idea of setting up a temporary blog on WP.com is good as it will help you learn a little more how things work.

    WP uses style sheets to control almost everything. Because of that, themes like comicpress, can be developed to “easily work” with WordPress. That does not mean it will be easy for you unless you know at least something about FTP, html, php, css, etc.

    You also have to have an internet host where all those WP files that are now on your desk will reside so that they are available to the world wide web.

    If you are willing to spend a lot of time learning before bloging, start here and here

    Well, another alternative is to use WPComic. It is similar to ComicPress, but a little simpler to use. There is no need for any ftp software and there is only 1 configuration file to set up.

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