This class will tell you how to set up your own wordpress blog on your own domain. I will give a short overview on the weblog software wordpress that you can download here:

http://wordpress.org/

(current version: 2.9.2)

- what is WordPress
- how to get WordPress
- how to install and setup WordPress
- create your first blog post with WordPress

You need a web space with PHP and MySQL. If you don’t have one, you can get one for free either here:

http://www.solidwebhost.com/register.jsp

or here:

http://noadsfree.com/signup.php

You also need an FTP-client to upload the wordpress files to your web site. If you don’t have one you can get a filezilla for free here:

http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client