How to install WordPress on a GoDaddy account

I’ve always been hesitant to host my own blog because I imagined that it would be a truly painful process. I finally took the plunge last week and decided to set up a blog on my existing GoDaddy account. I followed Mels tutorial on “How to install WordPress on a GoDaddy account” and was quite literally done in 5 minutes. The only thing I had issues with was getting the Date & Name permalinks to work because the install did not create a htacess file. The workaround was to upload a 1 byte htaccess file to the WordPress root directory and CHMOD it to 666 – once that was done my blog was ready to go. The software itself is incredibly easy to use and I was able to quickly copy some of posts over from my old blog.
I hope to post more often now – lets see how it goes 🙂