WordPress

WordPress is a Content Management System and blogging tool. A blog (web-log) is an online journal, diary or commentary, presented as a website. Generally, one or more contributors (bloggers) add new content to the top of the website on a semi-regular basis.

There are two basic ways in which you can start using WordPress:

1. Sign up for an account on the WordPress.com site.
2. Install your own WordPress CMS on a server that you have acccess to.
   

The first option is the easiest. WordPress maintains their own website that provides free blogging accounts and currently up to 3GB storage space for your media files. To create yourself an account you simply need to visit the WordPress.com site and create it:

http://wordpress.com/signup/

If you wish to have more control over how WordPress is configured you may wish to choose the second option - installing WordPress yourself. In this case you need to visit the download site:

http://wordpress.org/download/

This second option is not recommended unless you have experience installing and configuring software on a server.

Also, for the second option, PHP must be enabled on your web server and mySQL is required.