The easiest blogging tool to set up on your site is WordPress. There are other devices that you can use, but this one is free and my favourite tool. So, before you even attempt to install it, you need to check your site hosting. You will need PHP enabled and access to a MySQL database.
What if for some reason you cannot add PHP to your present website, such as if you have an ASP website? Well, maybe your hosts can permit you to set up a subdomain of your web site (e.g. blog.yourdomain.com) that you can use and give this the essential PHP.
Second Step - Install WordPress
There are 2 techniques of doing this:
1) Go to WordPress.org, download the current version of the blog application to your computer, unzip the files then using an FTP tool, upload the files to a directory on your website - as for instance either blog.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com/site.
You will need to look at the config file before uploading it to your website. There is numerous information within this file itself, but you basically need to adjust the database access to those given to you by your host.
2) If you are very lucky, go to your host's control panel and push a button to install WordPress!
Third Step - Activate It
Now, just go to your website URL and it will automatically activate the applications and complete the installation. You are automatically allotted a temporary password for the Admin user, use this to sign on to the site and then immediately, before you do anything else, go to the user maintenance screen and amend the password to one that you can remember.
Following this, there are various standard security features and other rapid amendments that you can make to set up WordPress to the best.
You should also look through the list of available themes and find one that you would like to use for your website. These themes are the basic style of the website - the site design. Choosing a nice lookign theme will give it a good look and make it look presentable to traffic when they start to arrive.
You can also have a look through the selection of pluggins that are available for WordPress. These are little add ins that you can install to your website to add additional features and functions, such as a statistics package or a collection of posts that are related to the one currently being read.
Author Resource:
If you want to know more about blogging, call over to our web site - http://www.howtostartmyblog.com . There you will find loads more help, and you can get yourself a free copy of our how to start a site ebook .
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