This week-end I decided it was time to also start blogging myself.

WordPress looks to be the best software to create blogs, so I googled “wordpress hosting” (I never type-in for search and you?) and was lucky to land on this page:
http://wordpress.org/hosting/
I never hear about the hosting companies featured here except BlueHost (their marketing efforts pays) so I naturally selected this company.
I was suprised by the low price, and how the process was easy and fast: It only takes a click to install WordPress.

I did not wanted to use my own name for the blog.
I purchased DomainWare.com few years ago with the idea to host here a directory of domain resources.
But Rick Latonas given me a smart advice last month saying I should not multiplicate brands but put under the same roof most of my domain services.
Following his recomendation, I will create soon a “Resources” section in Domaining.com, so DomainWare.com was available to become my blog site.
It’s a good fit when a significant part of my posts should be about “(my) domain software”.

The template WordPress presents by default is really ugly so the first thing I did after was to search a nicer one.
I used TemplateMonster.com, this service has the largest web templates inventory and prices are reasonable.

After I installed some pluggins of interest: Twitter and FaceBook and registered with FeedBurner.com

I made my first blog (probably not a very good post for a welcome) and asked the feed inclusion to Domaining.com, no only I was immediately accepted but my setup fee was waived (there is some advantages to closely know the owner).

Finally it has been fast, and no brainer to create my first blog so now I can land you a hand if you need to setup a blog.

If you feel I should use some special pluggins, make some changes,… feel free to comment this post.

Thanks for your time!