Trying to start a free blog...Help please!

[jere]

You guys have given me motivation to try out blogging. So now I am trying to figure out how to get everything setup. I was expecting one site could do it all but I am finding out that is not the case. All of the how to set up blog tutorials I have found seems to only explain blogs I have to pay for. I am lost in the new to me terminology of website building to make things more confusing...

My goal is to start off with a self hosted blog on wordpress. I have heard about sites like .tk , and byethoust but in what order do I set these up? Is a free blog feasible in this manner? I would like to test out ads even if they are only worth a few dollars a year.

Where do I start?