Want to start your own blog?
How techincal are you?
There a 2 options when setting up your 1st blog.
* Self hosting where you pay a company a yearly rate to host your website, you’ll need some technical ability setting this up, FTP files, configure DNS serves etc.
* Use a blogging service that does it all for you. (and is free)
If this is your 1st try at blogging go for one of the big blogging services and use them to host your blog, that way you can spend more time on blogging than getting it up and working. If your more technically minded or want more control over your blog head to google and do a search for a more appropriate guide.
Which CMS (Content Management System) to choose?
The 2 big boys are WordPress or Blogger, I would suggest WordPress if your new to this!
WordPress comes in 2 flavours, a version you install on your own hosted servers (with advanced features, themes and plugins) and a hosted solution thats free and very easy!
Blogger is the other hosted solution, is owned by google now and is a good CMS also, there’s no self hosted Blogger software.
Sign up for a Free hosted WordPress account
https://en.wordpress.com/signup/
Go for the free version to start with, you can buy a domain name or go for the free domain as you sign up. Remember the name is not set in stone, if at a later date you buy yourself a domain name you can then point it a you blog, so for now I’d suggest going for the free version.
Once you’ve filled in the form, thats it! Your sites up and ready for your to start blogging! No stress at all!
If you ever feel like you’ve outgrown your WordPress.com blog its very easy to migrate your blog to another solution, so keep the costs to free for a while as you find your feet in the blogging world.
If you do setup a blog, drop me a comment so I can read it!!
Related articles
- The Pros and Cons of Self Hosted WordPress Hosting (uclaislamicstudies.com)
- How I Moved my 11-year-old Website to a New Web Host (blogher.com)
