Starting a blog takes only 5 minutes using WordPress.com. You sign up with an email and username, which becomes your blog URL. WordPress sends an activation link to your email, which you click to view your new blog. From the dashboard you can edit posts and comments or change the design template to begin customizing your new blog.

1. Start a blog in five minutes By Julian Matthews Trinetizen Media http://www.trinetizen.com Updated: Nov 20, 2009

2. 1.Go to wordpress.com and sign up here

3. 2.Your username becomes your URL ie: http://buzz.wordpress.com 4.Remember the email you are using, you have to access this to authenticate account later 3.Write password down in case you forget 5.Tick this

5. 6.Open email from WordPress.com 7.Click on activation link

6. 8. Click to view site

7. This is your new blog! It has a new post and new comment and uses the default design template. You can edit or delete the post and comment or change design template in “Appearance” in “My Dashboard”. 9. Log In

8. 10. This is your Dashboard. Explore features like Posts, Pages and Appearance in left column