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Installing Wordpress

Download the latest distribution of WordPress to your local computer. Unzip it. Use a FTP program to FTP the files onto your hosting account. Be sure to place the fiels in the folder where you would like them to appear on the web.

For example, domains/mydomain.com/public_html/sandwich will place your blog at http://www.mydomain.com/sandwich

Create a new MySQL database under MySQL Management. Note the information down.

Edit your wp-config.php file on the server and fill in the MySQL database information.

Visit http://www.mydomain.com/wp-admin/install.php or, if you placed it in a new folder, http://www.mydomain.com/newfolder/wp-admin/install.php