Using WordPress.com

WordPress.com (http://wordpress.com) is a free service provided by the WordPress developers, where you can register a blog or non-blog website easily and quickly with no hassle. However, because it is a hosted service, your control over some things will be more limited than it would be if you hosted your own WordPress website. As mentioned before, WordPress.com will not let you edit or upload your own themes or plugins. Apart from that, WordPress.com is a great place to maintain your personal site if you don't need to do anything fancy with your theme or the source code of your site in general. To get started, go to http://wordpress.com and click on the loud orange-and-white Get Started button. You will be taken to the signup page. In the following screenshot, I've entered my e-mail address (please triple-check when entering yours; it's where the confirmation e-mail will be sent), my username (this is what I'll sign in with), a password (note that...