How to make a website with wordpress

Choose one or the other. One-click install is a feature offered by most web hosts. The famous 5 min install is the "manual" install where you download and set up your config.php file, and move them into your web servers correct location; and create your mysql database for wordpress to use.

In theory, either way should produce the same installation results. My personal preference is to always install wordpress manually. I do this for two reasons. Number one is I can insure I have uniquely salted keys in the config.php file. Number two is also in the config file you're given the option to add a prefix to the tables wordpress uses. I always add a unique prefix; think of it like a password. Its just an extra level of security that anybody trying to run a malicious SQL query would have to also know what my prefixed table names are to be able to correctly run their harmful code. It's not the end all be all to security, but its an easy and nice feature to have.

Thanks Kevin. I tried the 5mins install and it gave me troubles so i uninstalled WordPress and went through the one-click and it is working fine for me for now. For future purposes, i will try to get conversant with the Famous 5 min install. Thanks once again