Having your own blog isn t just for the nerdy anymore. Today, it seems everyone from multinational corporations to a neighbor up the street has a blog. They all have one, in part, because the folks at WordPress make it easy to have one. But to actually build a good blog to create a blog people want to read takes thought, planning, and some effort. From picking a theme and using tags to choosing widgets and building a community, creating your blog really starts after you ve set it up.

In the video for Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read from Class on Demand, you'll learn how to install and set up WordPress, pick a theme and create custom menus, control your site with Dashboard and extend its functionality with plugins, be the master of users and profiles, manage pages and create posts, and deal with comments.