Foreign Perspectives

How to get started is something that stops many people from running a blog to begin with or pushes them onto the relative deadend of one of the blogging sites.

However, it doesn’t need to be like that because it’s really quite easy to start a blog with your own domain and can cost as little as $45/£25 per year. Going down this route gives you a LOT more control over your blog.

Won’t it be terribly complicated? No, it’s pretty simple really and there’s a series on how to do it over on MumsFinance.com so I’ll not run through all the details here. The basic steps are:

1. register a domain;
2. sign up with a hosting service;
3. install the blogging software;
4. start writing your blog

You might think that step 3 is going to be very complex but it’s described in easy steps in the series.

To be fair, that’ll get you a very basic looking blog but it’s best to start simple. Once you’re happy that everything is working fine you can look around for different themes (the appearence) for your blog but it’s not essential to do that and many blogs run with the simple default theme.