A FREE BEGINNERS GUIDE & STEP BY STEP TUTORIAL
A Step By Step Guide To Starting Your Own Blog. So you want to start your own blog, but your not sure how to go about it? Well, you have come to the right place. Starting a blog is actually a lot easier than most people realize, this tutorial will take you through the process from start to finish, and less than 1 hour from now, you will have your very own blog up and running.
Whether you are setting up your blog as a hobby, for a business or as a way of generating some extra income, the setup process is exactly the same.
Then once you have your basic blog setup, you can choose from thousands of pre -built themes and templates to style your blog the
way you want it.
So let’s get right to it. In order for your blog to function properly, there are 3 things you will need to do:
1.Choose and register a domain name for your blog
2.Setup a web host to host your blog on the internet
3.Install a blog script that will run your blog
If those things sound a bit scary, or too technical, don’t worry, it’s really very simple...
Step 1 – Register A Domain Name
Step 2 – Set Up A Web Host Account
Step 3 – Configure Your Domain
Step 4 – Install WordPress
Step 5 – Configure Your Blog
Step 1: Choose A Domain Name For Your Blog Every website or blog on the internet requires a domain name, it acts as your address, so people can find your blog by typing your domain name into their internet browser. You will need to find something that you like and make sure it is available (that nobody else has already registered it).
You will also need to decide if you want to use a .com, .net or .org extension.
Step 2: Setup A Web Host Account For Your Blog
Now that you have chosen a domain name, you will need to setup an account with a web hosting company who will house your blog and make it available on the internet 24/7 for the whole world to see.
There are a lot of good companies offering web hosting, and for a small blog like the one we are setting up here, you will only need a relatively small account which will cost around $5 to $15 per month.
Step 3: Setting Up Your Blog Script.
There are many ways you can build your actual blog, there is software you can buy and there are also free scripts that you can use.
Posts This is what you will use to “post’ on your blog.
When you create posts inside WordPress, you can choose the page they’ll be displayed on, the date you publish them, the name of the publisher, and the option to give your blog visitors the ability to post comment on your posts.
You will also be able to set up diverse post categories.
Media
The media menu allows you to manage your videos and pictures that you place on your blog.
Links
In the link section, you can generate a variety of different links and link categories you can use later on to create customized sidebar widgets.
Pages
You’ll use this to add fresh new pages to your blog.
You can browse the different options available; enabling/disabling comments, page slug, altering page order, adjusting the page template etc.
Appearance
The appearance section allows you to customize the way you blog will look, beginning with the theme you have chosen, to the menus and sidebar widgets.
There are lots of ways to customize your blogs appearance, so have a play around; you’ll be very pleased with what you can do.
Plugins
Plugins are useful tools if they are applied correctly.
There are lots of different third party plugins out there that will allow you to speed the performance of your blog, boost visibility of the website on search engines, improve the visual style and look, etc.
Users
This part is for the addition or modification of the existing user settings like profiles, passwords, emails, etc.
Settings
The setting menu allows you to set up things like your blog name, media settings, the front page display, the date format, and the descriptions. From the settings menu, you can also reconfigure any third party plugins you install. Follow the steps above and you will have your blog set up and running in no time at all.
You can then start your blog right now by adding your very own content and posts. You can also give more thought to the theme that you may wish to install if you don’t want to use the default theme.
If after you’ve gone through the 5 steps you feel you still need more just send us a message through the contact us page and we’ll be very pleased to point you in the right direction.
Happy Blogging.
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