Category — Blogging for Beginner

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1. Buy your own domain name.

There are a lot of domain registrars offering domain registration service.  Some of the most popular are Godaddy.Com or NameCheap.Com.  They offer pretty competitive price with good service.

At Godaddy you can buy .COM domain at $10.69.  If you enter the coupon code OYH7, you will got 20% discount.  .INFO domain is even more cheaper, only $0.89. At NameCheap you can buy .COM domain at $9.69 and they give you free WHO IS GUARD* (Godaddy charge $8.99 per domain for this service, but they give it for free if you order five domain or more).

I personally use Godaddy, and have no trouble yet with their service (except that their interface is too full of advertising – pretty annoying and confusing).  Oh yeah, one more thing, if you want to register domain with Godaddy for only one year, be sure to change the period choice for 1 year because their default is 5 year.  Be sure too to turn off the auto renew choice if you don’t want your domain to be renew automatically (their default is “auto renew”, not “renew manually”)

Don’t have experience with NameCheap yet, but hear a lot of rave review about them.

2.    Find a Hosting Service

I’ve done a lot of searching about this and found out that Hostgator is the best.

*Most people who use this hosting feel satisfied (I do found few people who don’t, but the quantity is so small compared with satisfied customer).  For other hosting, fiuuhhh.. I found so many bad reviews about them ☹
*Their customer service is very helpful (they provide 24/7 live help chat with many customer representatives so you don’t have to queue for a long time if you need help).
*They’re also very active in many forums.  Every time forum member posts a problem or complain, Hostgator representative will reply and help them solve their problem.
*Hostgator is the only hosting that allow you to pay monthly (this always good especially for beginners who don’t want to spend too much money at the beginning)
*Hostgator prices is fair… not too cheap, but fair enough compared with their quality service (you may often see incredibly-cheap hosting advertising, but most of them require you to order at least 3 years to get that cheap price.  If you order only 1 year, the price will be doubled or even triple.)

If you want to try Hostgator, enter promotional coupon HGC25 to get one month hosting for only 1 cent.

3. After both domain and your hosting ready, login to your domain account and change the Name Server to Your Hosting Name Server (your hosting service should have notify you about this, in case they don’t, simply ask them about it).

4. Login to your Hosting Account.

5. Install WordPress. You can install WordPress via FTP (File Transfer Protocol), but it’ll be much more simple if you using Fantastico De Luxe (Hostgator provide this installer).  Click here to learn how to Install WordPress using Fantastico De Luxe.

6.    Your Blog is ready to use now. Go to http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin and enter your WordPress username and password, then start fill it with tons of useful contents ☺

Easy huh?  As I say above, Create a Blog is much more easier than maintaining it.

*Who is Guard is a protection for your personal data you entered when you register a domain.   If you activate this protection, people who search your personal data using WHO IS Query will find the Domain By Proxy information instead of yours.  This will protects you from spam.

1. Login to your hosting account, then look for Fantastico De Luxe Installer Icon (it looks like smiley icon).  If you use Hostgator, you can find the installer under the “Software/Services” Panel.
3.  You will be redirected to Fantastico Interface.  At the left sidebar, click WordPress.  Click New Installation.
4.    Fill the information they require.  Fill “Install on domain” Combobox with the domain you want to install wordpress.  You may leave “Install to directory” textbox blank if you wish to install wordpress in root directory.  Fill admin username, admin password (admin username and admin password will be your username and password to enter WordPress Administrator Panel once the installation completed), admin nick name (the name that will showed up in your post), admin email, your site name (you can always change this later), your site description (you can always change this later).
5.    Click Install WordPress.
6.    A confirmation page contains verification of all the data you entered will appear.  If all’s correct, click Finish Installation.
7.    After the process is done, a page containing the details of the installation will appear.  You can copy this information for your record, or if you want this information to be sent via email, just enter your email address at the “email the details of this installation to” textbox then click send.

1.    Goto http://www.blogsome.com
2.    Enter the web address/url you want in the “Select your blog’s web address” box. Click “get your Free Blog now”.
3.    Enter your personal information :

• Email Address
• Blog Title
• Word Verification to prevent spam
• Don’t forget to check “I have read and agree to the Terms of Service”
• Click “Get your Free Blog Now”

4.    Your Blog is ready to use.   Visit http://www.yourblogname.blogsome.com to visit your blog or http/www.yourblogname.blogsome.com/wp-login.php to login and manage your blog (or start posting).  The username and password have been sent to you via email.

1.    Go to http://www.wordpress.com
2.    Click “Sign Up Now”
3.    Create your wordpress account by entering your personal data:

• Username
• Password
• Email address
• Legal FlotSam (be sure to check “I have read and agree to the fascinating terms of service”.)
• Choose “Gimme a Blog”
• Click Next

4.    Fill your Blog information:

• Enter Blog Domain Name (yourname.wordpress.com).  This will be url of your blog.
• Enter Blog Title
• Enter language you primarily blogging in.
• Enter Privacy Setting.  Check “I would like my blog to appear in search engines like Google and Technorati, and in public listings around WordPress.com”  checkbox if you want your blog to appear in search engine.
• Click Sign up

5. Check your email.  You should’ve received email from WordPress.Com now.   Open the email and click the link to activate your account.
6. Your account has been activated now. Happy Blogging!

1.    Go to www.blogspot.com
2.    Click “Create a Blog”
3.    If you already have google account, sign in first.  If you don’t, you will be    required to create new account and fill your personal data:

• Email address (must already exist)
• Password
• Display name
• Word verification to prevent spam.
• Don’t forget to check the “I accept the Terms of Service” checkbox.
• Click “continue”.

4.    Name your Blog.

• dashboard and in your profile. Enter Blog Title:title that will appear on your published blog.
• Enter Blog Address/URL: the URL that will be used by your customer to access your site.  You can click the link “check availability” link to check whether the URL you want still available or not.
• Enter Word Verification to prevent spam.
• Click Continue.

5.    Choose a Template
6.    Finish!  Your blog has been created.  Happy Blogging!

First, you have to choose which platform you want to use: Blogger, WordPress.Com, Blogsome.Com, etc.

For your information, WordPress.Com don’t allow you to monetize your blog, so if you have a plan to monetize your site, I recommend you to make a Blogsome or Blogger account (latest version of Blogger has monetize tab to help you monetize your blog via Google Adsense).

Basically, to create a free blog you will be required to:
1.    Create an account by filling your personal information such as email address, password, etc.
2.    Enter the blog information you are about to create, like blog title, blog url, etc.
3.    Choose a theme (or you can choose a theme after the registration process complete)

Yes, only those three easy steps and you have your own blog now!  Happy Blogging! ☺

For detail instruction about how to create a Blogger.Com Blog, please click here.
For detail instruction about how to create a WordPress.Com Blog, please click here.
For detail instruction about how to create a Blogsome.Com Blog, please click here.

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Here it is some consideration to help you decide which one best for you.

FREE BLOG

Pros
- It’s free

Cons
- You don’t have full control of your blog
- Once they close their service, your blog, all your writing and hard work will vanish in the air.
- Some free blog services, like WordPress.Com don’t allow you to monetize your blog.

PAID BLOG

Pros
- You have full control of your blog.  You can do whatever you want with it.  You can add widget, javascript, even monetize it all the way you want.
- It does look more professional.

Cons
- It’s not free

So, which one do you think best -  free blog or paid blog?

(Click here for detail guidance about how to create your First Free Blog and Paid Blog.)