As a continuation of my post “How to Start a Successful Blog, we will now dive into the different platforms available to run your blog from.
There are plenty of options to choose from, some are free and some require you to pay. There is absolutely no reason to pay for one because Wordpress does everything and more than any of what the others have to offer. If you purchased and host your domain with BlueHost.com like I advised, then installing Wordpress is about a 2 minute process.
To install Wordpress from a BlueHost, simply log in to your dashboard and click on the Fantastico icon. This section offers quite a few different types of software that you can install on your domain, and I encourage you to check a few of them out. Once your in the Fantastico section just click on Wordpress and install it in the root directory of your domain by leaving the subdirectory box blank. This will place the homepage of our blog at the highest level possible (http://www.yourdomain.com). Fill in the remaining questions to set up the Admin account and finish up the installation. All of your databases and account creation will be done automatically.
Once the install has finished, your new blog should be up and running on your domain with a very basic template and default post. Go ahead and check out your blog at http://www.yourdomain.com. You can also log into the Admin area by accessing http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/ and entering the account info you entered during the install process.
Have a look around in the admin area and start to familiarize yourself with it. In the 3rd post of this series, we will look at how to configure Wordpress to make it more search engine friendly.
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