One of the reasons that I am such a big fan of WordPress is that you can customize it endlessly with plugins. Although there are thousands of them out there, and more released daily, there are certain ones you absolutely must have.
All the plugins come with extensive instructions on how to install and use [...]

There are many ways to bake a cake, so I am only going to cover how I got MY WordPress installed. You will be amazed at how easy it is.
As I mentioned in my post about choosing a host, mine is GoDaddy. They offer a painless method of installing WordPress. (I am sure [...]

I’ll assume you have:

Written your blog manifesto
Chosen and registered a name for your blog

Now you are ready to find a host.
Assuming you have a.com domain as the name of your blog, you have a multitude of choices. I use GoDaddy.com, but there are many others.
What to look for in a host:
Good prices. As a [...]

I’ll assume you have chosen and registered a name for your blog, and you have decided to go the WordPress route. Now let the fun begin.
You have, of course, read dozens of blogs before you decided to start your own, right? And you have admired a lot of these blogs for their excellent design, [...]

It takes a long time to set up a blog: even before the first real post appears on your blog, you will have invested (hopefully) hours of research and toil into making it the best blog that it can be. The thing is, it is just as easy to spend a lot of time [...]