Work From Home

Setting Up Your Work From Home Blog - Part 1

After joining the NZPCS program one of the very first things you need to do is set up your own work from home blog similar to this one.

For those not joining the program many of these steps can still be applied but remember you won’t receive the added benefit of all the free tools and software mentioned within some parts of this series of articles. You will also need to arrange for your own domain and hosting (I used Netfirms for my domain name and recommend either Hostgator or LunarPages for hosting your blog(s) )

Once you have your domain and hosting and have changed your DNS (further information can be found via your hostgator etc support pages) you’re ready to start on your blog.

Setting Up A WordPress Blog
The very first thing you need to do is create a new subdomain to host your blog. You can do this via your control panel (cPanel) of your hosting company. Click on the subdomain tab in your control panel and you will see you can create a new subdomain from here - in the blank tab (alongside your domain name) type in work-from-home (remember when creating new subdomains or folders to not have a blank space between any words use - or _ ) once you have you new subdomain created you’re ready to start your blog
In the beginning, particularly if you’re new to WordPress, you may want to set your blog up via Fantastico (you’ll also find this in your cPanel) click on Fantastico and then to the left of your page under blogs - click on WordPress - from there you want new installation and just follow along with the instructions - remember though - you want to install this in your work-from-home subdomain so make sure you make that is selected - NZPCS members will see a video in the blog section of the instruction site