Your blog’s theme is a simple way of managing your sites layout, stylesheets, and typeface. Your theme will determine how you want your readers to view your blog posts and your website as a whole.

Thanks to the open source nature of wordpress there are thousands of free blog themes that are ready to go right out of the box. Each theme is also easy to modify to better fit your needs.

“FTP” meaning File Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to copy a file from one host to another over a TCP/IP-based network, such as the Internet

In other words it’s a way to take files on your computer, and upload them to your host.

How to install wordpress to your website using the 5 minute wordpress install process. What tools you will need and the step by step walkthrough of the installation.

After this walkthrough your new website will be up and running and visible to the world.

What is a web host? Why you need a web host? How do you set up web hosting? What is a Nameserver? How do you link your domain name to your web host? How do you re-assign your nameservers to your web host?

All that and more in Step 3 of this ‘How to become a blogger series’.

Registering your own domain name is cheap and easy. It’s also an important step to becoming a blogger. It will look more professional and give users an easy way to remember how to find your website.

So you think you want to become a blogger but you don’t know where to start.

This first video tells you what a blog is and what is the best blogging platform to use. It will also explain why we have chosen to use “wordpress” as our blogging platform.