Wordpress Blog - Steps to creating question

[gizbug]

My wife and I started a business, and would like to make a blog to get exposure and advertise for it.
I run my own website (and own a domain, and pay to host it), so I use Wordpress 3.5.1 from wordpress.org. I also notice there is a wordpress.com website out there.

My question is, I do not yet have a DOMAIN, or a Web Hosting company for our company blog. But I would like to start creating it ahead of time. Do I want to go through wordpress.com for this, get it all designed, then later link it to my domain I pick, and export it to my hosting company whoever that may be? Wordpress 3.5.1 from wordpress.org seems like I already need a domain and/or web hosting to use this.

Thanks in advance.

 

[uclabachelor]

What's preventing you from paying $15/month for web hosting?

If that's not possible then host a local web server for free to develop on then upload the whole shebang to your public website.

 

[smakme7757]

Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org will give you the exact same starting point. The difference is that Wordpress.com will just give you a clean slate with Wordpress. Downloading the platform yourself from Wordpress.org will mean you will have to setup everything yourself.

If you're not comfortable with that then a hosting service with your own domain name is the best way to get started. They take care of the site administration and you just do your thing on the blog.

If you create the site now it's not a problem to import it later on when you decide on how your going to host the site.

 

[sunilmkt]

On WordPress.org software is freely available to the public. The same goes for thousands of plugins, in addition to a number of “premium” plugins that can be purchased separately. Site owners can modify their designs and functionality to the limits of their creativity, install custom themes and can write own PHP and CSS code.