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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.