Before you can set up your new work from home blog as part of the Million Dollar Blueprint program you need to arrange for your domain and hosting. There is a section covering this in the instruction site, and you’ll see mention of choosing a generic domain name, or acronym etc; simply put a reason for this suggestion is so that you aren’t limited when it comes to subdomains etc for example if you chose golf-tips.com as a domain name - having a subdomain of dogs really makes no sense (dogs.golf-tips.com).

Once you have your domain and hosting arranged and your DNS has transferred - you can find more information about Domain Name Servers through your hosting or domain provider you’re ready to set up your initial work from home blog.

Creating Your Subdomain

Before you set up your new blog you need to create a new subdomain (eg work-from-home.yourdomainname)

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 your 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 that is selected - There is an extensive video in the instruction site that covers using Fantastico to set up your WordPress Blog - you can follow along with that (and pause the video as you do each step)

There are other ways to install WordPress blogs and I’ll cover those in a later post.

Once you have your blog installed, before going any further, log into your dashboard and have a look around - familiarise yourself with the tabs (presentation, options, plugins etc) as you’ll be using those often as you build and maintain your blog. If for some reason you don’t have your login url - just type in your blogs address and add wp-admin eg http://work-from-home.yourdomainname/wp-admin entering on this will take you to your log in page