Building your WordPress website – start here

The first decision you have to make is where your blog is going to live. You have two basic options when creating your site:

• Either go to WordPress.com and sign up for a free (or paid) website (that way, you get the website installed for you)
• Or, go to WordPress.org and use the open-source version of WordPress—by installing it on your own server or a server of a third-party hosting firm

Let's look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of each of these two options.