How to Very Easily Start a Blog (Step by Step) – Helping You Create an Effective Internet Presence.
Do you actually see how simple this stuff is? You don't have to be a guru for you to be able to figure this out the right way.
I have showed you all the things you need to know about registering a domain name and now its time to register your blog's domain name because you can't jump to step two without registering your domain name first. Go here to register your domain (affiliate link).
There are couple of things you need to know about choosing a web host and here are some of them; you need to know what storage capacity a web host has before choosing it. If you're planning on running a static HTML website, you can decide to go for a web host that doesn't have a large storage capacity since the website isn't going to be updated regularly.
All of NameCheap 'Shared Hosting' plans have 'unlimited bandwidth' and that's one of the main reasons why you should use NameCheap (affiliate link).
Now, I want you to click on 'Advanced DNS' and don't forget the purpose of what we are doing. Remember that we want to start a blog right? Okay, cool.
What I want you to do now is to delete the default NameCheap records and you can do the delete icon next after 'Automatic' to delete each of the records.
Add a new record by clicking on 'Add New Record' and under the 'Host' enter 'www' and under the 'Value' paste the IP Address again, under the 'TTL' still set it as automatic and click on 'Save All Changes' again.
Is this stuff making sense to you so far? I hope you are not confused with anything we are doing here. If you are not clear with anything, let me know in the comment box right below this article and I'll reach out to you. Okay?
Click on 'Install Now' and a new page will be opened up for you. Fill the form one the page and click on 'Install' and once the installation is completed successfully, you'll get a message that it has been completed successfully. Congratulations my friend, you are almost done with your new blog.
NB: Make sure you keep your WordPress username and password secure, don't forget it.
Now, in order to login to your site dashboard, point your browser to 'yoursite.com/wp-login.php' and enter your WordPress username and password. Click on 'Login' and you will be presented with your Dashboard.
Before proceeding to the next step, visit 'yoursite.com' and see the way it looks like. Make sense?
With that been said my friend, we are done installing WordPress on our new blog. Let's move forward because we have started a blog already.
If you visit 'yoursite.com,' you will notice that the design might not be that good and in this segment I will show you how to change your new blog's theme, where to get a great theme for your blog and much more.
Okay, let's get started on how to choose a theme.
Once you click on 'Themes' you will see some defaults theme that comes with WordPress, you can either activate any of them or you search for another free theme as there are thousands of free themes you can choose from. Make sense?
Enter the title of your blog post in the 'title' field provided and then enter the content in the field right below the 'title' field. If you are familiar with Microsoft Word you will find it very easy to craft your blog post.
Once you are done, click on 'Publish' then your new blog post will appear at the frontend of your blog.