n this article I will look at the 7 settings I adjust as soon as I install a new WordPress blog.
1. Setup blog title and tagline
(In Settings - General)

You don’t want your blog to be branded as “just another WordPress weblog”
Write your blog title and explain why your blog is unique in the blog tagline

2. Change permalinks
(In Settings - Permalinks)

You don’t want your blog articles to be called something like:

http://www.yourdomain.com/?p=123

You want to make your URL’s unique, keyword-rich, SEO and user friendly
On HowToMakeMyBlog.com I use the custom option field like this:

/%category%/%postname%/

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This is step-by-step detailed guide to how to setup domain name and hosting, setup MySQL and how to install self-hosted WordPress on your own server.

Get domain name and hosting

First step is to buy your domain name and hosting.
At GoDaddy domain name is $1.99 when buying it with hosting
Hosting plan I use is economy ($4.74 a month when buying a year)

Setup your hosting account

Login to your GoDaddy account
Click on Hosting and chose My Hosting Account
Find your hosting plan and click on Setup Account
Select the checkbox and click Next
Chose username and password you would like to use …

WordPress is well known for its ease of installation. Under most circumstances installing WordPress is a very simple process and takes less than five minutes to complete. The following installation guide will help you installing WordPress blogging software onto your web hosting. Here’s the quick guide:
1. Download and unzip the WordPress package, if you haven’t already.
2. Create a database for WordPress on your web server, as well as a MySQL user who has all privileges for accessing and modifying it.
3. Rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php in the WordPress folder.
4. Open wp-config.php in your text editor and fill …

I would recommend to use WordPress. I use WordPress on this blog and it is the most popular blogging software online. It is also free blogging software.
WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.
On WordPress website …

As you have consider the content theme of your blog and you have decided on your blog domain name, it is time to look at which domain name and web hosting provider you should use to host your blog.
I recommend GoDaddy.com. These days it is fairly cheap to register a domain name and to have a web hosting. You will need less than $10 US Dollars to register your blog domain name for a full year.
GoDaddy have several blog hosting options but to start off I would recommend just the …