Good news! Here’s a short list of the software that you will need. More good news! It’s all free!

Wordpress - a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. The software was originally designed for bloggers but we’ll show you how to easy turn it into your personal content management system. Click here to download the latest version.

Filezilla - a powerful FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. This is what you will use to transfer files from your computer to the webserver that will host your new website. Click here to download the latest version.

Text Editor - a program which edits files in plain text format, as compared to binary format. Using a non-text based word processing program (e.g. using Microsoft Word to edit PHP scripts) can cause major problems in your code. This is because non-text based word processing programs insert extra formatting into text files, and can corrupt the files when they need to be interpreted by the interpreter.

New computers come with plain text editors preinstalled. PCs use Notepad. Apple computers use TextEdit.

Step Five: Create the SQL Database