Every time I tell a friend that I enjoy blogging they shoot me a puzzled look, and think that it is some complicated technique, and that I know a lot about computers.
NOT TRUE
Creating a blog is simple
In this post i will teach you
- The difference between a free website, and owning your own domain
- How to choose, and acquire a domain name
- Where and how to get your site hosted(where the data will be stored so that you can publish content onto your domain name)
- The major differences between WordPress and Blogger
Depending on your needs you may choose to create a free website with a “second level domain”, or a premium website which you “own”, and have a custom domain name.
If you don’t know what a “second level domain” is, here is a quick explanation:
Let’s assume I wanted to create this site, if i used a free blog service like Blogger for example, I would have to include their prefix in my domain name, for example this would be, www.bloggsense.blogspot.com, on the other hand…
if your interested in owning your own unique domain name you will need to purchase the domain, and also the hosting.
- you don’t need to purchase the domain and the hosting from the same vendor, for example you can buy a domain from godaddy, and host it through yahoo, but in order to keep thinks simple i would suggest one-stop shopping
This was very confusing for me at first, I am going to show you the EXACT way to do this, I’ll make links open in a different window so that you will be able to reference my instructions.
To try to make things more readable, I’ll start a new post “creating a blog”
