Setting Up a Blog on Your Hosting Account

Blogs are all the rage nowadays and for good reason. They are becoming a very popular way to communicate online and many website owners and companies are setting them up on their websites. If you have a website and have been thinking of setting up a blog, now is the time to do it. For some people, setting up a blog on their website can seem like a daunting task, but it's not that hard. As a matter of fact, it can be done in a matter of minutes, with just a few clicks of the mouse.

Blogs are all the rage nowadays and for good reason. They are becoming a very popular way to communicate online and many website owners and companies are setting them up on their websites. If you have a website and have been thinking of setting up a blog, now is the time to do it. For some people, setting up a blog on their website can seem like a daunting task, but it's not that hard. As a matter of fact, it can be done in a matter of minutes, with just a few clicks of the mouse.

If you have a web hosting account, log into your account and look to see if your web hosting company uses cPanel for your dashboard (or control panel). If they do, you should see a smiley face icon for Fantastico there. Fantastico is a great script that will install a blog anywhere on your website that you'd like. You can create your blog on the home page (www.yoursite.com), in a separate folder (www.yoursite.com/blog), or even on a subdomain (blog.yoursite.com). All you need to do is tell Fantastico where you want your blog, follow the setup instructions, and it will set up your blog in that location for you in a matter of a few minutes.

What if your web host doesn't use cPanel? Well, there's still a chance they might have Fantastico installed, so log in quickly and check or shoot them off an email to see if it's available. If they don't have it, you can still easily install a blog on your website by going to www.WordPress.org and downloading the latest version of WordPress from their site for free. They also have a great step-by-step tutorial that will walk you through the process of setting up a blog on your site. If you want to simplify the process even more, you can go to www.installity.com/wordpress and follow the simple steps there for setting up your blog. It's easy to use and it's free

If you simply don't want to be bothered with doing it yourself or still feel it's beyond your skill level, you can always have someone else do it for you. On a freelance site like www.RentACoder.com you can pay someone to do it for you. Someone that knows what they're doing should be able to complete it for you in about 10-15 minutes and it really shouldn't cost you more than $20 to have done.

Installing a blog is a lot easier than you might have thought and with the tips that I've given you here, you can be making your first post in minutes, not hours.