Setting up a WordPress website or micro-site

There are a couple of ways to set up a WordPress site; 1) Go to http://www.wordpress.com and set up a free account.   This is very easy to do and will only take you a couple of minutes.  The downside of going this route is you don’t have full control of your site and will be limited on the plugins and themes that you can use.  2) The second choice is to set up a hosting account with one of the several hosting services available and utilize the free version of WordPress that you can then load onto the hosting server.  There are a few hosting companies that have a one click installation process to make this extremely easy to do.  In this video and the videos to follow I will show you how to set up a WordPress site on GoDaddy.

Step One is to purchase a GoDaddy hosting account:

Next Post will be on how to install WordPress on your GoDaddy hosting account.