In previous years, as we have seen, many web-based services have acquired noticeable popularity in such a way that they can make serious changes in your life. Blogging is indeed a suitable member in the list along with some other services such as online shopping. Simply saying, you can see Blogging as the web version of journalism, where you bring good content to your readers along with some extra useful stuff. As far as we have seen, the mentioned time has given birth for many bloggers, including passionate bloggers, professional bloggers and those who just blog for money.
In addition, more members are approaching the blogging industry with either passion or the wish to make money online. Reason for such a hike is the simplicity of creating a blog even though making it sustainable is a herculean task. By the way, are you still not aware about making your own blog? No problem folks! Here, we can give you an effective guide for building your own blog with reliable and popular services.
Before We Start
As we said before, by following this guide, you can make your own blog with specific requirement and features. We should choose a self-hosted blog over a blogger.com or Wordpress.com based free blogs as you can get many features such as full control on your site. However, we are using the best-of-available services to light up your blog and hence to make it a success.
On top of all, we have chosen Wordpress as our blogging platform and CMS (Content Management System) as it is famous for its exclusive features and huge support when compared to rivals CMSs. As we said before, by using self-hosted Wordpress for powering your blog, you can get your own blog rather than a partially Google or Wordpress.com powered one.
In the next section, we should own your space in cyber-world. Here, we would like to Hostgator as the web hosting service, which is 100% reliable and consisting of many features. You can either take Hostgator for buying domain name or approach some other services. Now, we can start our process of your own blog making from the Web Hosting section.
Purchasing Hostgator Web Hosting
- Step One
For purchasing Hosting service from Hostgator, you have to go to www.hostgator.com and click on ‘Web Hosting’ in the navigation menu. In the next page, you can see a page like following. As you can see, there are various plans are available, suiting different requirements and budgets.
- Step Two
As you might be a beginner to blogging, we advise you to choose the Baby Plan from shared hosting. In this, you can host multiple websites. This plan has mediocre rates too. You can hit ‘Order Now’ once you have fixed the decision.
- Step Three
In the next page, you have to assign your domain name. Either you can purchase one domain name along with the hosting plan or you can enter your current domain name and manage nameservers later.
- Step Four
Next section of the page consists of billing, where you have to add appropriate payment details. Below that, you can see a billing section along with amount payable. There is also an option for applying Hostgator coupons and hence getting a noticeable discount in your order. For example, you can use a coupon ‘MaxBabyCoupon’ for getting maximum amount off on your order.
- Step Five
Once you have entered all details mentioned above, you can click ‘Create Account’. After completing your payment, you can start using your Hostgator cPanel by following the link in your confirmation mail.
Nameservers
If you have purchased your domain with your hosting plan, the domain will have default integration with your hosting account. On the other hand, in the case of an external domain registrant such as GoDaddy, you have to change your nameservers to ns1.hostgator.com and ns2.hostgator.com.
Hostgator cPanel Dashboard
For controlling your website and making changes, Hostgator is using cPanel Dashboard, is one of the easy-to-use method for managing your server. You can find the link for cPanel Dashboard in the welcome mail from Hostgator. Moreover, we need cPanel for installing Wordpress in your site and start blogging.
Installing Wordpress
Now, we are going to install Wordpress, the famous CMS in your website. As you might have heard, there are various methods available for installing Wordpress in your website via cPanel dashboard. Here, we are going to use the Fantastico Deluxe method, which is comparatively easier than other options.
- Step One
In your cPanel Dashboard, there are various sub sections available. From the Software/Services sub section, select Fantastico Deluxe by clicking on the smiley icon.
- Step Two
In the window, you can see various CMSs under different categories. From the Blog category, select Wordpress. You can see a new page. From the page select the link ‘New Installation’.
- Step Three
In this page, you have to give some details for your Wordpress site. First, you should select the domain, where you would like to install Wordpress. In the ‘install in directory’ filed, type the directory to install Wordpress (For instance, you can add one sub-folder like www.domain.com/blog) There is another filed ‘admin access data’, where you should add administration credentials such as username and password for your blog. At last, you have to add your email address as the admin email address of your blog. You can also add details such as Site Name, Site Description, etc.
- Step Four
This is the final step of installation. You can click ‘Install Wordpress’ and Fantastico Deluxe will install Wordpress in the mentioned directory. Now hit, ‘Finish Installation’ to complete Wordpress install.
Logging into Wordpress
Once you have successfully install Wordpress in your domain, you can start exploring the world of blogging from the very next second. For doing so, you should log in to the Wordpress dashboard. For doing so, type the following URL in your browser
www.yourdomain.com/blog/wp-admin (In case, you have installed on ‘blog’ subdirectory)
You can see a window with login form like the following. There, you should enter your Wordpress admin username and password (Check your inbox for getting credentials) and hit ‘Log In’. In seconds you can see the Wordpress dashboard.
That’s It
That’s It! You can now see the Wordpress dashboard of your website. Now, start blogging in your Wordpress-powered blog!
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