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Using a blog as your website’s content management system is more popular now than ever before. Blogs are extremely easy to update, are highly versatile in terms of design, and are very easy to optimize for the major search engines.

The most popular blogging platform is Wordpress. Wordpress is open-source, meaning that it is free to download. It also has an extremely large community of people who produce plug-ins, themes, and other add-ons, many of which are free to use.

So if you want to use a blog as your content management system, then Wordpress is probably the way to go.

There are two different ways you can go about installing Wordpress. The first way is completely automatic and literally takes about 20 seconds.

If you have a host that uses Cpanel and Fantastico, you can have Wordpress automatically installed at the push of a button. Hostgator is a great choice if you are looking for hosting provider.

Simply log into your Cpanel, scroll down to Fantastico, click on “Wordpress”, fill out the required information and you are done.

If you do not have access to Fantastico, Wordpress is fairly easy to set it manually as well. First you’ll need to create a Mysql database, as well as a user for the database and a password.

Next you’ll want to download the latest version of Wordpress from Wordpress.org. Open up the config.php file with a text editing program, and plug-in your site details in the appropriate fields. After you do that you will want to upload all of the files to your server using an FTP program. After you do that navigate to yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php.

Assuming that you’ve correctly set up your database and config.php file, you should be able to run the installation script and have Wordpress up and running in no time at all.

For more information on using Wordpress including help with installation, installing themes and plug-ins, and other Wordpress tricks and tips please take a moment to visit howtobuildablog.com.