If your web host has Fantastico, you can use that to automatically install a WordPress blog on your server. If it doesn't, here is how to do it manually...
1. Download the latest version of WordPress from this link: http://wordpress.org/download/
2. Extract all files and upload them via FTP to your website. 3. Create a MySQL database from your cPanel and add a user to it, make sure when you add the user that you give all privileges. 4. Now come back to to the files of WordPress. There is a file called wp-config-sample.php. Open this file and change the database name, username and password. Now save the file.
5. Rename the file wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php and delete the old file from your web server and upload that wp-config.php file.
6. Now install WordPress by loading http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php in your browser.
7. Enter a specific email address and password.
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