How to Create a Blog Site for Free

So you always thought about having your own website or blog site without spending a dime and al those tutorials and manuals go over your head.

To create a self hosted blog site might look like its a daunting task, and you might e clueless on where to start with. To be honest and straight forward, it’s a pretty simple to to create a new blog site (free of cost), and you can completed this task in probably an our maybe. Isn’t this amazing? Go ahead with reading and following these steps and join the blogosphere right away!

How to Create a Blog Site for Free

Choosing the right platform

There are a lot of blog hosting platforms available today. From Blogger to WordPress, Typepad, Movable, LiveJournal and Tumblr trending these days. You need to choose a platform that suit your needs. Use this  Blogging Software Comparison page to find out which blog platform is ideal for you.

Create an Account

Create an account with the most suitable service provider. Personally I recommend WordPress due to its simplicity, easy to understand back end administration, and a large number of themes and plugins available.

Set up the Blog and Essential things like theme, plugins

Now you can choose a free sub domain for you blog. Then select a suitable theme for you blog and add plugins needed. If you are using WordPress then, I recommend the Twenty Eleven theme for first time users and Akismet plugin that wards off spam.

Start Blogging

When you have completed the above steps, you are now ready to join the blogosphere with millions of other bloggers and start posting content to your free blog. There are many other ways where you can customize your blog with plugins, feeds, blogrolls, themes and much more, but the above steps steps are all you need to follow to start a simple blog site.