Beginner Tutorial on setting up a Blog using WordPress

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Over the last few years, WordPress has emerged as one of the best blogging tools available. In fact, it contains many features of a full-on content management system and can be used for everything from blogs to regular ol' websites (with the advantage that even non-techie site owners can easily update the pages once the site is set up). ZDNet's Tech Blogs is an example of a very slick site made with WordPress.

The best thing about WordPress (apart from it being free) is that plug-ins are available to do all manner of things, from inserting tag clouds into your blog to adding surveys and shopping carts to integrating YouTube videos. Not to mention the fact that you have serious control over the design of each section of your site...

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