I promised a tutorial on how to setup a WordPress account and create your own website. Here it is. It doesn’t cover writing posts and the like, that is covered elsewhere in the WordPress tutorials, where you could start at Lesson 5, but it does get you to the point when you can begin to be creative. Hope you have some fun!
Step 1 – Go to WordPress.com and click on Start with Free …
Step 2 – The following screen will show …
Step 3 – Click on Get started, and you will be presented with a choice, to setup a WordPress.com account, or create one linked to your Google (Gmail) account. I will do the former …
… and supply an email address (it happens to be a Google one) and then a Password. I will then be asked to supply a Username. A Username can only contain lowercase letters and numbers …
You’ve setup your WordPress.com account – remember those details – UserID and Password (as well as the email address you used).
Step 4 – You are now asked some questions to help set up the website.
I suggest you choose the first option for now …
… and then maybe the last one on the next screen …
… then click on Continue with Free on this last Setup screen …
… before you give your website an address – a URL …
Step 5 – I’m not expecting that you’ll own a domain yourself at this stage, so just click on Continue …
WordPress will then check to see whether it can find a unique URL for you to use. There will be one in the list that is Free – select that one …
… ignore all others. You can see I’m going to grab cardiffu3acg.wordpress.com – which is quite a nice one …
… so I’ll Confirm my choice!
Step 6 – I’ll change the name of the site on the next screen from cardiffu3acg to …
[NB – This website was not created with this URL, it was used purely for demonstration purposes and does not exist.]
That should then be accepted and you’ve got a website. Congratulations! You can then go on to supply a little more information before you start to write your first Post …
… perhaps do the first one which explains a little more what your site is all about, and then start “playing” with the menu bar on the left-hand side of your browser screen …
… or even Add a New Site!