With self-hosting you install WordPress (download from http://www.wordpress.org) under your own domain and have complete access and control to every element of the blog – from the content itself to what themes and plugins you want to use.

Look for a cheap web hosting plan (no more than $4 per month) that supports PHP and MySQL and gives you at least 1 MySQL database. Most hosts provide a free domain name with a 1 year contract. I personally use 1and1.com.

I find this article interesting and useful for “normal” situations, however I am trying to create a blog for my (school) class. Wordpress, blogger, and other “large/well-known” blogging sites are blocked on campus. All I want is a simple blog for my students to read important information and ask questions/make comments. Do you know of any simple blogs that may be used because it is “overlooked” or of a way to create a basic blog using Expression Web for my needs?

Nice design for the theme too by the way…

It’s easy if you know what you’re looking for. If you copy the code from the working site into Expression Web and look in code view you’ll see that off the top there is a code call that looks like this:

<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”http://www.yourWebDomain.com/wp-content/themes/yourTheme/style.css” />

All you have to do is change it to a relavite link so it reads

<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”wp-content/themes/yourTheme/style.css” />

instead. That way Expression Web will access your local version of the style sheet whenever you make edits.

To get a better idea of how to do it, watch the video from my WordCamp Whistler presentation. In it you’ll see exactly how I do it.

I have a question I have really big hopes of using your description. But I got stuck at the point
“Find the CSS call in the html code and redirect it to the local file you will be altering.”
I am not 100% sure what do you mean.
What I am trying to achieve is not too easy I think, but I hope it is possible.
I am making a website (still learning as you can see)for my wife. The site I have done so far is still under construction too, but I found out that she probably wont be able to use EW on her own so I figured I should use WP.
The first page you can visit: kismamatornablog.freevar.com
And what I am trying to do is put into WP: fittmama.freevar.com

I used your instructions so far, but this “find the CSS…” I am not 100% sure what you mean. please if you still visiting this post, I would be really grateful.

Thanks