Wordpress Exposed: Part 1 - Overview

So you’ve been toying around with the idea of setting up your own blog. Your own little space on the internets to spread your ideas, share inspirational thoughts, make observations about the bizarreness of life, the universe and everything or maybe you just want to have a good old rant about the recession.

Whatever your reasons, the end goal is the same – to establish your own web presence where you can express yourself freely to just about anybody on the planet. The purpose of this series of articles is to help you achieve that goal.

Over the next few weeks we will take an in-depth look at the world’s most popular blogging platform and see how you can take advantage of it to create a unique and functionally rich weblog from the ground up.

We will cover such topics as:

• Why you should choose Wordpress
• How to install Wordpress on your own domain
• Tour of the Wordpress control panel
• Themes (Changing, using and creating your own)
• Plugins
• And more…

What you will need:

• Your own domain name (such as www.mydomain.com)
• Hosting package with a web hosting company
• Time and patience
• I’ll hopefully provide you with everything else you need

I’ll update this post with links as new Wordpress Exposed articles are published on this site. Part 2 should be coming very soon. I hope you find the articles useful and have fun creating your own Wordpress powered blog.