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There's a lot of different things that come into play when it comes to building your WordPress Web site.
A couple different options that you have.
First of all, you can always go to WordPress, dotcom.
Now, this is a good way to start learning how to blog because you can set up a free blog in here,
which you can do with WordPress, dotcom, as you just simply sign up and you get a subdomain domain
name you can always connect to the actual domain name will get into all that later here, but you'll
get your own little link within WordPress and you can start blog and you can also get a good feel for
how WordPress works and if you like it or not.
Now, it's not the exact same version that we're going to be working in the next few videos here.
But this is a very similar version of it.
Now, being WordPress, it should be kind of the same.
But again, they have their own limitations and things that they offer for free, whereas the full version
that you install on your hosting has a lot more options and a lot more robust.
So remember, you may want to start out with something like WordPress, Dotcom.
Now, maybe you just don't like WordPress for whatever reason.
There are other blogging platforms that are a little bit more community based that I would say maybe
go ahead and get started with and just practice from before you start spend any actual time and money
on buying domain names and hosting and things like that.
So there are other sites like Wiki stack up.
This is a great place where you can build a free Web site.
You can also blog within.
It's very similar to how WordPress Dotcom works, where you can create your site.
You have basically a subdomain, which means it can be something like your name, Dot Wick's dot com.
So it's not like a full domain name, but you're within their community.
They're you're using their domain name to create your Web site again, just like WordPress dot com.
They also offer where you can purchase a domain name and connected to this site.
I don't remember if there's a fee involved in that.
I know there are different levels where you can get into the paid version of Wiggs, I think, to give
you more hosting space and things like that.
But this is a good platform to use as well.
Another one that I really like and I actually use still, even though I use WordPress for my blogging
is medium dotcom.
Now, this is a kind of an open source news website, but you can also contribute your own articles
now to get listed into the homepage here.
If your article is good enough and gets enough comments and things like that, you can see a lot of
these are, well, actually, you know, a year ago or whatever, two years ago, several years ago.
But again, these are some of the articles are doing really good on their site.
Now, what you can do is create your own account or you can log in and be your own blogger and you can
drive traffic to your blog and things like that.
A lot of cool things you can do.
But again, it kind of gives you the basic feeling of how blogging works and make sure that you are
liking the way that it works, liking blogging.
And some people think that they get into blogging and like, oh, this is going to be great.
And then they get into I think a month later, they just get bored with it.
And, you know, having a free site like this can be a great way to kind of, you know, feel it out
a little bit, see if you like it.
If not, you move on.
No loss, nothing, you know, no money lost on that kind of stuff as opposed to actually purchasing
a domain name and hosting and things like that.
We were and we spent a little bit of money and some time setting it up, only to find out you don't
like it later on, a little bit more of an investment.
So I kind of just starting with one of these, if you're not really sure if it's something you want
to do or not remember, you can always take the copy and the content that you write for these blogs
and just shut down this site and copy it over to a WordPress site later on if you wanted to.
Those are all options.
But again, just to kind of get started, this is something that I would consider doing.