Set Up Your Wordpress Blog
Now that you have a .com and some hosting, it is time to get started on the good stuff. Here are the basics on setting up a blog using Wordpress.
After you receive an email from ResellerZoom to confirm your hosting account has been set up, log into your control panel (for your site) - the URL will be http://YourSite.com/cpanel (you should have the username and password in the email from your host).
Cpanel is a great control panel program that allows you to do heaps of things with your site.
Look for a little icon with a smiley face called “Fantastico” - click on it.
On the next page in the left hand collumn click on “Wordpress” - now in the right hand collum click on “New Installation”
You want your blog in the top level directory so leave the “directory” option blank.
Follow the prompts to install your Wordpress blog.
Congratulations - you now have a Wordpress blog - in my opinion, this is the best type of blog as it has hundreds of different templates that you can use to make it look funky and there is a very large supporter community to ask silly questions if you get into trouble.
Now go to yourSite.com and click on the “login” link (use the username and password that you input during the installation process).
If this is the first time you have looked at the back-end of a Wordpress blog then you should spend AT LEAST an hour in the blog control panel looking around at the options and pressing all the buttons.
Write a post or two for a test (don’t worry, you can delete them later).
Now you are up and running!
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