The easiest blogging tool to set up on your website is WordPress. There are other options 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 web site hosting. You will need PHP enabled and access to a MySQL database.
What if for some reason you cannot add PHP to your current website, for instance if you have an ASP site? Well, maybe your hosts can allow you to set up a subdomain of your site (e.g. blog.yourdomain.com) that you can use and give this the necessary PHP.
Second Step - Install WordPress
There are 2 ways of doing this:
1) Go to WordPress.org, download the current version of the blog applications to your computer, unzip the files then using an FTP tool, upload the files to a directory on your site - for instance either blog.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com/blog.
You will need to look at the config file before uploading it to your web site. There is numerous information within this file itself, but you basically need to change the database access to those given to you by your host.
2) If you are very fortunate, go to your host's control panel and click a button to install WordPress!
Third Step - Activate It
Now, just go to your weblog URL and it will automatically activate the software and finish the installation. You are automatically allotted a provisional password for the Admin user, use this to sign on to the blog and then immediately, before you do anything else, go to the user maintenance screen and change the password to one that you can remember.
Following this, there are selected standard security features and other speedy alterations that you can make to set up WordPress to the best.
You should also look through the selection of available themes and find one that you would like to use for your site. These themes are the basic style of the weblog - 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 list of pluggins that are on offer for WordPress. These are little add ins that you can install to your website to add extra features and functions, such as a statistics package or a selection of posts that are related to the one currently being read.
Author Resource:-
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