Many enjoy the use of communicating and verbalizing our thoughts, hobbies and ideas on a platform that can easily be accessed by various people from the Internet. The easiest and most common way to express yourself is through a blog. Creating a blog can be fairly easy, given the right tools, software and guidance.

WordPress is a free blogging software that you can install on most web hosting packages. Due to its ease, usability, understanding and access, WordPress is the most popular blogging platform that is currently on the Web.

WordPress’ claim to fame is that it takes less than five minutes to install onto your hosting. It can be even quicker once your used to the install process.

Prior to installing WordPress, verify that you have internet access, a text editor program (just in case) and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) software.

To complete the five minute installation process follow these instructions