I found it hard to find a really good tutorial on how to get Wordpress on my localhost on my PC. So i made my own:) Hope u like it. Before ill start it up I have to say if u use Windows 7 64-bit version or Windows Vista 64-bit version DO NOT USE XAMPP! Y you ask? Because its almost impossible to get the Apache web server to work. I tried it and gave up on it. It should work fine with all 32-bit versions tho. But now let us start!

Getting the WAMP file

Download it from here: http://www.wampserver.com/en/download.php
Install the program just follow the default selections, select default browser: my choice Chrome.
Ok now when WAMP is installed we are going to go and download Wordpress.

Download Wordpress

Here is the link for that: http://wordpress.org/download/.
Save that to the computer.

Create a database

Go to the WAMP icon and then chose localhost.

Press on the phpmyadmin text to get to the databas.

Enter the name for the database, for this example ill choose ”databastest”.

Install Wordpress on the localhost

Extract the Wordpress zip-file and move it to the folder c:\wamp\www\
After that open the wp-config.php file in the Wordpress directory with a HTML program or with a text editor, and enter the information for the database, as u remember mine was databastest. Now print root in for DB_USER and leave the password blank save it and close the editor.

Now open the browser and type in: localhost/wordpress/wp-config.php Fill in the name of the site and choose a password and press on the Install Wordpress button.

Wordpress installed and ready to use!

Enter your password and press on the Log in button.

Now you are finished!

ENJOY!
ps. if u didn´t understand anything i found this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uShBYyy0cbw to YouTube!

Welcome!

Hey, starting up my Wordpress site today. After finishing my old site it was time to try something different and learn more new stuff.

Wordpress for me, is not something new, but I have never had one myself. So it was finally time to take a step forward and make one. This site is going to work like a project for me when I’m searching for a job and starting up my own web design company.

So who am i? Well I consider my self as a web designer now. I have study programming for three years and didn’t quit find that so entertaining so I start to work as a shop manager for a couple of years, working with clothes. Got tired of that, quit my safe job and got back to school to study web design at University of Borås.

Now my studying has come to an end and my desire to succeed as a web designer is my dream. Hopefully this Wordpress portfolio will help me with that

This Wordpress will contain all kinds of stuff that I like and are interested in. Everything from web design to logotypes to tutorials ( in Illustrator, Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver) to articles that I will write.

If you want or need to read more about me, check out the About Me link here <--. You can also find my at the other social media tags to the right!

Don’t hesitate to give me feedback on anything of my work, which you might like or dislike.

/ Fredrik Liljar Christensson