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We’ve covered buying your domain and hosting it, now it’s time to get your blogging software loaded.

At this point, if you’ve chosen a hosting service that supports your preferred blog software (we use Wordpress) then it can be as easy as logging into the hosting control panel and clicking install. Well, not quite so easy but almost. The key thing is that your hosting service offers Fantastico which is a piece of software that you can use to install all kinds of things.

As you’ll gather from the title, this is usually the easy option for installation and we’ll go through that here using Wordpress software as an example:

1. login to your hosting account and go to the control panel;
2. select Fantastico;
3. select Wordpress (or whatever blogging software you’d like to use);
4. select New Installation;
5. select Install on domain and choose your domain from the list (which should only have one entry on it if this is your first blog);
6. you can select Install in directory but if the domain is only for your blog then I wouldn’t bother;
7. select Admin access data and enter a username and password
8. Base configuration should already be filled in but you can add a nickname for your admin account if you like (it’s simpler if it’s the same as the administrator username you used in step 7). Check your e-mail address. You can change the sitename and description later.
9. I would leave the e-mail account configuration blank for now but you need to put something in the password field.
10. Click on Install Wordpress
11. Note the MySQL username (you can change this later).
12. Click on Finish installation

And that’s it. You can login to your new blog at www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin using the admin account and password that you entered in step 7.

It’s actually not much more difficult to do without Fantastico but it’s a lot slower and we’ll cover that next time.

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