How To Create a Blog Website With WordPress 0

Introduction

People feel the need to share their thoughts and opinion with other people. Nowadays, the most effective way to do that is to create your own weblog or, as it is most popular blog. But, how to start your own blog? Fortunately, today starting a blog site is a really easy task.

There are free Open Source blog tools (WordPress), which help you create and manage your blog site.You do not need to know anything about web design or development to start blogging. All you need to do is open a hosting account, where you can have a blog application installed and activated.

Define: Blog

There are different descriptions of that concept. According to most of the articles in the Internet 'blog' is short form for 'weblog', a frequently updated publication of comments and thoughts on the web. Usually it is reflecting the views of the blog's creator. Blogs consist of text and images and are sorted by date. The newest information is on the top and there is an archive of the old one. People create blogs to share their live experience with the world. The person who is updating that journal is called blogger. They write about different topics: from the typical daily situations to the progress of some scientific researches. The readers also can leave comments and this make the whole thing more interesting and useful.

History of blog

Blogs are part of the World Wide Web since its creation. In the beginning they did not have a define name, but their purpose was near to the contemporary ones. Here is a list of the first blogs:
• Dawn of Internet: Tim Berners-Lee at CERN begins keeping a list of all new sites as they come online.
• June 1993: NCSA's oldest archived 'What's New' list of sites.
• June 1993: Netscape begins running it's 'What's New!' list of sites.
• January 1994: Justin Hall launches Justin's Home Page which would become Links from the Underground.
• April 1997: Dave Winer launches Scripting News.
• December 1997: Jorn Barger coins the term 'weblog''.

Things to Know Before Installing WordPress

Before you begin the install, there are few things you need to have and do. First of all, You need a web host for your Blog. I strongly recomend You 1and1.com hosting and domain company. It‘s easy to use and administer it. Go and Sign Up now.

You need access to your site and its directory and software to proceed with the

installation. These are:
• An access to your web server (via shell or FTP)
• A text editor
• An FTP Client (if you need to install WordPress on a remote server)
• Your web browser of choice

Things You Need to Do to Install WordPress

Begin your installation by:
1. Download the latest release of WordPress.
2. Unzip the downloaded file to a folder on your hard drive.
3. Be prepared with a secure password for your Secret Key
4. Print this page out so you have it handy during the installation.

Famous 5-Minute Install
Here's the quick version of the instructions, for those that are already comfortable with performing such installations. More detailed instructions follow.
1. Download and unzip the WordPress package, if you haven't already.

2. Create a database for WordPress on your web server, as well as a MySQL user who has all privileges for  accessing and modifying it.

3. Rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php.

4. Open wp-config.php in your favorite text editor and fill in your database details as explained in Editing wp-config.php to generate and use your secret key password.

5. Place the WordPress files in the desired location on your web server:

•     If you want to integrate WordPress into the root of your domain (e.g.http://example.com/), move or upload all contents of the unzipped WordPress directory (but excluding the directory itself) into the root directory of your web server.

•     If you want to have your WordPress installation in its own subdirectory on your web site (e.g. http://example.com/blog/), rename the directory wordpress to the name you'd like the subdirectory to have and move or upload it to your web server. For example if you want the WordPress installation in a subdirectory called "blog", you should rename the directory called "wordpress" to "blog" and upload it to the root directory of your web server.

Hint: If your FTP transfer is too slow read how to avoid FTPing at : Step 1: Download and Extract.

6. Run the WordPress installation script by accessing wp-admin/install.php in your favorite web browser.

•    If you installed WordPress in the root directory, you should visit: http://example.com/wp-admin/install.php

•    If you installed WordPress in its own subdirectory called blog, for example, you should visit: http://example.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php 

   That's it! WordPress should now be installed.