How To Setup A WordPress Blog

I have had some confused questions coming to me as of late by professionally orientated bloggers, quite ironically, about how to set up and install a WordPress powered blog. Firstly if you don’t know what WordPress, or WP, is: It’s an overly awesome piece of open source (free to use, distribute, modify, love) software. It’s written in the PHP language and allows individuals to post content, video, audio, text, image in just about any manner. What’s so impressive about WP is that it can do just about anything you want it, and with ease. If you just want a basic blog up in 5mins, it can do that for you. If you want WP to be used as the backend for your corporate website, it indeed can be used as your CMS. But for those of you out there who don’t even know what echo(); means or simply are confused as to how to set up your own WP blog on your own server, lets see how you can install wordpress and get it going quickly!