WordPress is  is the most widely used blogging platform in the world.

You have two hosting options with wordpress.

First, you can host your blog free, by creating your blog at http://www.wordpress.com.

Second, and the preferred method, is to create your own wordpress blog on your domain.  Once you have created a domain and you have it hosted. it is very easy to install wordpress.

The Wordpress platform is free.  It is very easy to install WordPress, and can be done in less than a minute.  From your cpanel on your web host, you can either use Simple Scripts or Fantastico to have the latest version of Wordpress installed wherever you want.

You can have it installed in your main domain, you can have it added to a subdomain, you can have it installed in a folder, whatever you want.

If your host doesn’t allow for this easy installation, you just need to download the wordpress platform from wordpress.org, upload the zipped wordpress folder to your domain via ftp, and then unzip the folder.

WordPress has evolved from a simple blogging platform.  With the thousands of plugins, and themes (basically skins for your webpage to make it unique), you can customize your blog anyway you want, and can make your blog look like any other website.  In web-speak, you can use Wordpress as a CMS, or “Content Management System.”

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