As was discussed in How to Make Money and Have Fun Content, Hosting, and Appearance are basic needs for your online business.
I think Appearance is first thing to start with in your money-making venture.

Please, don’t waste your time to reinvent the wheel by building your website from scratch. It’s not good idea at all even you have experience in programming. Of cause you can start from creating brand new HTML document and stuff it with tags and links. But it takes weeks if not months of endless startup and learning new subjects you never use afterward. Was it your main goal? I don’t think so. Believe me or not but everything is already done! Just grab it and improve it.

If blogging is your online journey, Wordpress is the pleasure to travel with. It’s free, reliable, easy to use and understand. Download your FREE latest stable release of Wordpress and enjoy the life! Wordpress is Theme and Plugin driven creature.

A little bit of terminology: Theme is like outfit and Plugin is like gadget for your blog. You can play with this stuff, change it and alternate. Wordpress installation comes with a couple of basic Themes and Plugins which are great. But you definitely need sexy outfit for your newborn baby, don’t you?

You can find fantastic Themes on Frugal Theme Gallery. Clean and neat, sexy and provocative, caching eye and easy to adjust – themes of any kind for any taste. Grab one and your endless hours of searching for “perfection” will gone! Remember: time is money!

Here is a trick which one Theme to choose for your blog. Pick up the first you like. Don’t deep too hard, all of them just great. Your first choice always is the best one.

Here is just few benefits from endless list from frugal Theme:

• Lifetime theme upgrades.
• Excellent support via the frugal Forum and a growing list of video tutorials.
• A 29 page frugal Theme Handbook to help you get off on the right foot.

Visit frugal Theme for more details and have Fun. And remember: everything is already done, just grab it and run.

So, you’ve got theme of your choice. The next step is Shelter for your blog. Oh my gosh… I almost forgot! The name of your blog! Do you have one? Then go to this link (http://www.register.com) and check if name available, but don’t register it. Why? I’ll tell you next time. For now on just play with Wordpress.

Next, create folder on your computer with the blog name you’ve selected, unzip Wordpress and Theme of your choice in this folder and have a rest.

See you next time on Hosting Details

Yours BP.