How do I start a blog?

How do you start a blog? How do you get your own blog site or page?

• Is there a way you can have your own blog site instead of contributing to one already made.. I have no idea how a blog works? How do you pay for it? How do you start one? Please help! ...show more

• Answer:

  Depending on what you want, it can be completely free, up to a couple of hundreds of dollars per year. Many things influence this decission, like: - do you want your own domain name? (yourname.com for example) if yes, this will probably cost you about 10 dollars per year if no: you can get a subdomain name for free: yourname.mysitename.com (where you can not choose the mysitename part) - do you want much flexibility? sites like blogger are easy to setup, but don't give you an awfull lot of flexibility, whereas wordpress is somewhat more flexible - how much traffic/disk-space you expect to need? space on the internet costs money, though many sites offer you free space up to 1Gb, which would be more than enough if you don't plan to post a lot of pictures/movies. - Will you do the installation of your blog yourself? Also the service of installing your blog costs money, though if you just want the basics, usually you can find sites on the web that can do all the mentoned above for free or for very little money (for example: www.mokodesign.com)