Grab your free wordpress account at http://wordpress.com

Complete the registration form. If your user name is availalbe you will add your contact email, accept the terms of service and click "Next" Confirm your account. Be sure to record your user name and password.!! You will need them to access your blog Dashboard,

Check your email for a message asking you to confirm your registration. Be sure to check your inbox, if you do not get this email message.

You can login from this page

When you first create your blog the default theme will be used until you change the appearance of your blog in the dashboard of your blog. More on that later.

Enter your user name and password.

This illustrates your blog dashboard the main page that you will use to create and edit posts and manage your blog.

Your blog comes with a first blog post to help you understand the elements of your dashboard and a blog post. This is view for the post in the list of posts

This video will walk you through the steps to create a blog post, format the text and create a link to a web page.