Build Your Own Blog

I built a blog around my passions and you can to. Here’s what’s needed to start your very own blog:

Having your own domain is a great idea when starting a blog. Try and find a domain that’s both memorable and reasonable short. Click the button below to be taken to Bust-A-Name, my favorite tool for finding amazing domains. Plus you’ll also be able to register domains through Godaddy for just $7 by using this tool.

Once you’ve purchased a domain name, you need to find somewhere to host your blog. . I recommend Host Gator for bloggers. Its cheap, fast and very reliable with great support. Choose from either a monthly or yearly plan.

The best option is the free and open source Wordpress platform. It has a huge developer community behind it, meaning thousands of themes, plugins and ways to extend and customise your blog. Host Gator has a free utility to install Wordpress automatically.

Stand out from the crowd with your very own theme. Thesis allows you to fully customize pretty much every aspect of your Wordpress blog. This blog is built using Thesis!

Once you’ve built your blog, you need to know how many people are coming and visiting your site. Clicky is a real-time analytics tool which is dead easy to install. It will show you when visitors appear on your website, live!