What is Wordpress, why is everyone so gung ho about Wordpress ? Well to answer in one sentence Wordpress is one Content Management System which gives you ease of use, zero headache platform to announce your important posts, news and other general rantings and ravings to the world.
If you know how to use webmail, you can use Wordpress to manage your own website / blog.
Now this introduction out of the way, let us delve into how to build your own wordpress website.
For that you require 3 things
1. Your own domain name
2. Your own Hosting Space
3. Wordpress installation files
Of course you may also require a file transfer software such as filezilla which is absolutely free for personal use.
To begin with let us see how to get your own domain name, you can go and register your own domain name here. $7.49 .COM Domains w/Free InstantPage Site
Once you have booked your domain, you need your own hosting space which you can get from here
Then you need to download Wordpress installation files from wordpress.org
Once you have downloaded the zip file from wordpress.org website
You need to transfer the files to your hosting space, through FTP software.
Once transferred the files and folders as it is all you need to do is create a MySQL database or you could use the famous one click hosting provided by hostgator
And forget all your worries.
In the next tutorial we will see how to beautify your blog with various themes and also make it more social using some excellent plugins.
Till then enjoy.
