Ok, so I’m not the sharpest blogger/html coder/php coder in the box… and I’m an old guy, so that puts me at a disadvantage in this here blogging thing…
But, I’ve been involved in computers a very long time now, and I know that you can’t break it more if it’s already broken, and you can always restore if you were smart enough to make a backup copy of the file you are messsing with… 
So, how to do most of the things that bloggers do? trial and error google wordpress help.
However, I will detail at least some of the steps I took in setting up this blog here.
First things first. Pick a theme for your blog! Be passionate about what it is that you are going to create. Enjoy doing it, even if it is going to be hard work.
Next, find a hosting company. You want to have a hosting company that provides the basic software tools that you will need to set up your site. I picked up on lunarpages costs, domain registration, and bandwidth when searching for a hosting company. Since I was a beginner, I wanted to have scalable resources, just in case the site got more popular than John Chow’s.
Find a name and register a domain. Obviously, I wanted to join the LOL meme and I wanted to both educate and amuse in the political arena. So I started to use combinations of lol and politics and checked the available names via the whois command. lolpresidents was taken, as was lolpolitics, but I liked that name a whole bunch, and since I don’t have major money to invest in buying a parked domain, I decided to make the name sound the same and mashed the two, lol and politics to come up with loliticz.com. We registered the name. Next is to decide on what blogging software to use.
Pick a software package to use to create and administer your blog. Many exist out there. CafePress, TypePad, and WordPress to name just 3. We decided on WordPress, partly because the folks at LunarPages supported it natively, and partly because it seemed to have the most themes and support of all the packages. Being Open Source is a huge advantage, since it allows everyone who takes an interest in the software to support its many parts. Support forum questions are sometimes answered almost as you’re typing them.
