It appears that everybody today would like to start a blog, and the way a lot of people start is by making use of a free of charge blogging system for example 'Blogger' or other free blogging services such as 'Hub Pages'. However, eventually you will want to have much more management over your blog by getting your own domain name as well as blog, this will ensure that your blog never gets shut down. One of the best ways to get this done is by installing a WordPress blog on your domain name and this article will show you the five easy steps to setting up WordPress on your own website.

For those who have never carried this out before it may appear quite complicated but in fact it's very easy to perform. It can also be confusing by the fact that there's two differing types of WordPress blogs. WordPress.com is a free blog service much like Google's blogger, while WordPress.org is what we are utilizing to install our blog on our own domain name. This gives us much more control than we get from using the free services.

Step one: In order to host your blog the first things you'll need are a domain name as well as a website hosting service. The actual domain name will be the web address of your new blog, and if this is likely to be a personal blog then it is a good idea to try and use your own name within the site. It is also smart to keep the domain name and your hosting accounts with separate companies. This just keeps you a bit more in control although it is no problem for those who have them both with the same company.

Step two: By now you will have your domain name pointing to your hosting account and the very first thing you need to do is go into Cpanel. This is the main dashboard for managing your hosting account, now scroll down until you see and icon called Fantastico and then click that.

Step three: This will show you all of the different scripts that you can set up from this location. From here fined WordPress and click on it now.

Step four: This will take you to a very simple install page have a quick look at it and if all seems correct click the set up now button. You will then be asked which directory you will want to install your blog in, for most of us we will install the blog within the root directory, which means that we don't have to enter anything here. On the other hand if you want to install that blog in any other directory then just key in the name of the directory here and your blog will be installed.

Step five: So that is it, your blog is installed on your own hosting account and all you've got to do now is sign in and choose which theme you want to utilize for your blog, as well as what plugins you should install, but this is the topic of a later article.

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