How to start a blog with your web hosting company

Posted by Felix Okoli on Wednesday January 23, 2013 at 15:2:7:

One of the easiest way to start up a blog is by simply paying for a web hosting service, get a free domain name and then install your blog almost immediately.

Most basic web hosting packages comes at a good annual price of about $30 to $70 and this comes with a free domain name and unlimited website hosting. The good thing with the unlimited website hosting is that you can even create a lot of niche blogs or sites without paying for extra hosting fees.

To start a blog with your web host, all you basically need to do is:
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- Decide on your domain name if you don't already have one
- Sign up for a web hosting plan under bluehost
- Include your free domain name
- Make online payment for your hosting
- Log into your control panel and install wordpress
- Log into wordpress and start writing your first blog post.

Installing wordpress
One of the most popular platforms for blogs is wordpress although there are others like blogger, moveable type and typepad. Installing and using wordpress is quite easy and there are a lot of support online for the platform.

- Locate a wordpress installation pacakge on your control panel
- Click to install
- Select a name and title for your blog and write some description
- Choose the relevant folders for the files
- Choose a username and password for the admin
- Allow the installation to complete

After installing a blog on your web hosting account, you can always login by going to your blog admin page and from there you can start writing and publishing blog posts.