WordPress is a fantastic piece of software, and what is even more amazing its Open Source, meaning it will cost you NOTHING!! And you get the source code too !!
Although its not one of the easiest software packages to learn to navigate, it sure packs heaps of power under the hood and once you start to learn some of the basics of WordPress and blogging in general, you will begin to appreciate these features more and more.
There are 2 ways to install WordPress.
1. You can visit wordpress.org and download the full application here, and then manually install it on your server. If you do go down this path, then make sure you check out the following installation guides
http://www.optiniche.com/blog/26/installing-wordpress-an-audio-visual-presentation/
and
WordPresss Famous 5 Minute Installation guide (check it out at http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Famous_5-Minute_Install)
But an even easier way to install WordPress is to install it using Fantastico that is included with just about every cPanel installation on the planet.
You can log into your cPanel application, and at the bottom of all the icons you see on the...