Follow this short video to see how easy it is to get a domain name registered for your new wordpress blog.

I hope this helped, let me know what problems you are having and hopefully we can get them sorted out soon. How to set up a wordpress blog needn’t be difficult and when you learn the basics and start to use it often it will be an amzing traffic driver for your business or pleasure.

In the last section of setting up a wordpress blog we had gotten to step 3, where you had just changed your DNS to hostmonster. So we continue on with step 4.

4. When this is completed you must login to your CPanel of your hostmonster account. Once inside the CPanel go to the ‘Domains’ tab and click on ‘Add on Domains’

5. Click the tab that says: ‘Use a domain that is not already associated with your account.’ and enter the name of the domain that you bought from Godaddy. Then scroll to the bottom of the page and click ‘Add Domain’

6. Once this has been created you will need to go to the software /services section in your CPanel and click on the icon that says ‘Simple Scripts’.

7. Once inside simple scripts, under the heading: ‘Script List’ Click on the ‘WordPress’ Icon. On the next page click the green button that says ‘Install Now >‘

8. Once on the next page, under the drop down menu that says: ‘Where would you like WordPress installed?‘ choose the domain where you would like to install your wordpress blog. Name the site then (If You Want To) you don’t need to, then click the two tabs under legal information and click ‘Complete‘

9. On the next page it will give you all the details you need to know. It will look like this:

10. Then just simply visit your Admin URL, and enter your username (which will be admin) and enter your password and then enter your first ever wordpress blog.

11. Now once you have got your blog set up you are most likely going to want to change the look at feel of your blog to suit what you like. To do this you can do a search on google for ‘Free WordPress Themes’. A theme is what the design of your website is called. On my blog http://www.ciarandoyle.com I use a theme called ‘Flexsqueeze‘, but you will ost likely want to find one that suits you better.

12. Simply visit http://wordpress.org/extend/themes for some great themes that will really get your blog off to a great start.

13. Once you have chosen your theme you will need to download it from the website to your computer so that you will be able to upload it to your blog.

14. In order to upload the wordpress theme to your blog you are going to need to be able to access your websites FTP, and to do this I use a piece of software called Filezilla, which you can pick up here. I use the (Recommended) version for my blog, you should too unless you have an Apple Computer, in which case you would use the Mac OS X download.

15. Once you have downloaded Filezilla and set it up you are going to need to get access to your website. Remember earlier I asked you to keep some details safe so we could use thema  little later. Well now we need the username and password that you saved from earlier.

This is all that we have time for today but look out for the next installment on how to set up a wordpress blog in a few days. It is going to be jam packed with some cool tips and tricks that will make your blog explode onto the scene.

Setting up wordpress can be a bit of a maze if you dont know what you are doing. There are so many plugins and widgets and many more amazing and wonderful tips and tricks that can really help your blog explode from the word go.

So what are the first steps you need to take to set up a great wordpress blog?

1. You need to buy a website. I get mine from godaddy as I think they are the easiest and best. A .com domain name will probably cost you about $9.99, but you can find coupon codes all over the internet to get about 2 bucks knocked off the price of it. Just do a quick search for Godaddy coupon codes and you will find one. Then after you have selected your domain name it will come to the billing screen, just simply enter the code that you find into the coupon code section and press update. (Sometimes you might need to check a few different codes before you get one that works). For everything I buy on the internet I always do a search for coupon codes, it’s a real good way to save a bunch of cash.

2. The easiest way that you can do this is to get yourself a great hosting package. The one i use and I would recommend it so much is Hostmonster.  Hostmonster has a backend system called a CPanel which I feel is an absolute must for anyone in Internet Marketing for ease of use. You will get a domain included within the hosting package, but I like to keep this as a backoffice domain that i do not use.

When you set up this hosting account you will get some details that you are going to need to keep in a safe place as we are going to use them in the near future. Your hosting account will be given a USERNAME & PASSWORD. Keep them safe!

3. Once you have your website and hosting in place, you are going to need to change your Domain Name Servers (DNS) from godaddy to hostmonster. The domain name servers for Hostmonster are as follows:

ns1.hostmonster.com
ns2.hostmonster.com

To change the DNS to point to Hostmonster you must log in to your godaddy account. Under the drop down menu cann ‘DOMAINS’ you will see a tab that says ‘MY DOMAINS’. Click that and you will be taken to a screen that will show you what domains you own. Once in that page, click the box beside the domain you want to change your DNS. Then click the icon called ‘Nameservers’ and a new screen will pop up.

Click the button that says "I host my domains with another provider" and then enter:

‘ns1.hostmonster.com’ in the Nameserver 1 box &

‘ns2.hostmonster.com’ in the Nameserver 2 box and then press OK 

It will take a few minutes for this to take effect.

This is only the beginning, so get stuck into this and in a few days I will have the follow up to guide you through the next steps. Until then.