i was looking to put a blog on my website. i'm currently using PHP so i figured a php blog would be the best way to go. Would anyone have any recommendations? Thanks!
Absolutely, get the download from www.wordpress.org It's awesome - I'd be lost without it. Check out my blog link above - I made the template myself from a free one I found, but there are lists of premade templates. Depending on your skill you choose what works for you.
Have cpanel, wordpress should be in the fantastico section. Lot easier to load up your site from there, than to download the program, and then re-upload. Just a thought.
One concern I have about Fantastico is that it's often a couple of versions out of date and the upgrades are more often than not due to security breaches. Always, always, always use the latest version. Last weeks massive hacking affected two servers that my sites are hosted on. In one case an old version of wordpress has been accused of being the gateway for the exploit.
But that would be the hosting company not updating fantastico. Basically for the script challenged, using fantastico is the quickest and best way. Even the updates to wordpress are easy for the challenged. I say this because at one time not too far past, I was so script challenged it was unreal! Now that I know about scripts, etc...yes, I would get the latest version of wordpress and do it myself, bypassing fantastico. Have you ever checked what people charge to upload scripts like wordpress? Once I learn more about how to really template wordpress, I would like to enter that market for sure.