There’s loads of free websites out there for creating blogss such as blogger and wordpress, but if you have your own hosting you might as well set it up on that.

I would 100% recommend setting up a wordpress blog for a full blown website as well as a personal blog. For me it is one of the most complete pieces of internet technologies out there and the great news is that it is 100% FREEEEEEEEEE YAY!

So to set it up is simple.

1. Download the latest release from the wordpress site (just do a search for download wordpress http://wordpress.org/download/)
2. Unzip the file to your hard drive
3. Log on to your hosting using an FTP program such as Filezilla (http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client)
4. Upload the wordpress files that you extracted to your server in the root directory or a specific subdirectory
5. Once uploaded you should go to your website (to whatever folder you uploaded it to) and a page will be displayed asking you to create a config file
6. At this point you need to log in to your hosting control panel and create a database for wordpress and an associated user, once you’ve done this go back to the blogs web address
7. Enter in the database name, username, password, mysql server address (on both blacknight and hosting365 the databases are not located on the local host so you need to set this up, the web address for both can be found on the same page where the database was set up)
8. Once you click create the file should be created unless you have not got proper permissions set on your wordpress installation folder (if not go to your ftp client again and set the access level of your installation folder to 777, this is often called chmod 777 as that is the way of doing it via the command line)
9. And that’s it, the wordpress application has been set up, at this point you are given a temporary password that you should immediately change.
10. Then login and configure to your heart’s content.

Some of the really nice things you can do via the administration interface are set up a google sitemap, download and install new themes, add anti-spam plugins, and of course write blog entries, upload photos etc. through a very nifty and intuitive interface.

Happy blogging.