Backround to setting up this blog

When I came up with the idea for this blog, I always had two objectives: One was to make a record of my daily struggle in life generally, which I hoped would be interesting for anybody who stumbled across it, and the second was to make a record of exactly what I did in setting the blog up, so that people could learn both from my successes and failures.
This part is all about the blog itself, and I will post here in a section called “setting a blog up to earn money” what I do each time I make significant changes to it. I’ll also record the effect of each change on traffic and income, so I should be able to build up some good data for all of you who are here for that reason.
The first part will be a step by step guide to my setup of the blog, starting right from the beginning. Essentially, there were four steps in that process: 1/ Choosing a host and buying the domain name. 2/ Choosing a content management system. 3/ Setting up the CMS to work for me and for the site. 4/ Installing the adverts and other things which will hopefully one day earn me some money!