I remember reading that all updates apply automatically to wordpress.com. As a matter of fact, wordpress.com is being continuously updated all the time, whereas wordpress.org needs to save up all the updates to be applied at once, like this.
i'd also recomend this. i set up at bluehost for a year, cost me just over $70, plugged wordpress into it and started chopping away at all the bloggy bits. With zero knowledge of any html i had things going in about a weeks time. I'd recommend the option of hosting independently of wordpress. I didnt realize it with my…
I finished my portfolio about 2 weeks ago, using wordpress 3.0 (was still in beta upto that point). I set it up with custom post types (portfolio) and created taxonomies that I can add to each entry. What sort of portfolio entry it is environment, prop, character etc... I also added what type of tools I used, and all those…