OVERVIEW – HOSTING – WORDPRESS – PLUGINS – PAGES – THEME
In this tutorial, you will learn how to build your own website without any previous experience. If you can navigate around on Facebook, then you have the technical skills need to create a website. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have your own .com, and a beautifully designed website that you can then customize to your liking. (very easily)
There are a few things that make up a website.
- Domain – This is the actual web address people type into their browser, (www.onlinebusinesstech.com). Think of it as your address for your home. In the same way your home address tells people where they can find your house, the web address tells your reader’s browser where it can download the contents of your website and display it on the screen.
- Hosting – When someone types in your domain into their browser, your website has to download from somewhere, right? That’s where hosting comes into play. A web host will store all the files that make up your website, and deliver them to your audience when they go to it. (images, text, code, etc). They make sure your files are safe, secure, backed up, and available 24/7 for access.
- Website – There are a ton of different ways to build a website, but in this tutorial, we’re going to use a free platform called WordPress. WordPress is an easy to use, powerful platform capable of creating any type of website you can imagine. It’s free, and most hosting companies offer a really easy integrated installation process for creating a WordPress site.
When you create your own website, on your own domain, you have full control over what happens to it. You’re not locked into any specific platform, you can change it at any time, or move to a different host if you want to. You’re in full control.
F.A.Q.
Free hosting vs Paid? (Click to expand) You’ve probably heard about a ton of free ways you can host your own website, such as blogger.com, wix.com, weebly.com, wordpress.com, and many others. There are some good reasons for going this route, as most of these have very easy website building tools. But the main disadvantage is lack of control, and free hosting hurts the professional image of your brand. WordPress is a free, open-source website creation tool. Although you can download it manually from WordPress.org and install on your website yourself, most web hosts, including Bluehost, automate the process for you. Once you install WordPress, you can log into your WordPress Dashboard to design and manage your website. In order to use the WordPress platform, you must have a web host to install it on. For people who don’t have their own hosting, the creators of WordPress built WordPress.com. WordPress.com is a hosted version of WordPress, where you can create a free website, or pay for additional features such as a domain name, remove ads from your site, increased space, and other features. The version of WordPress installed on WordPress.com is slightly different than the one you download from WordPress.org or Bluehost, as there are some restrictions on the types of plugins you can install. WordPress.org is the open source WordPress platform, includes documentation, downloads, plugins, help, tutorials, etc. This is what you’ll be installing to run your website. WordPress.com is a custom hosted version of the WordPress platform, which has some limitations, and you’ll have to pay in order to get advanced features. (If you’re watching the video, make sure you watch it on YouTube so you can expand the description below the video. I created a full “table of contents” so you can fast forward or rewind as you’re watching the video.) By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have your own, fully functioning website! So what does it take to build a WordPress website with your own, custom domain? Bluehost is an excellent web host. I’ve been running all of my websites with them for about three years now. I had used Lunarpages in the past for about 8 years, and I kept hearing about Bluehost. All of my favorite online business gurus were using and recommending Bluehost, and I just didn’t see a reason to switch. It wasn’t until I switched over that I finally realized why they were always so highly recommended. By purchasing a hosting plan with Bluehost, you’ll be able to create a WordPress site, or any other type of site you wish. It gives you ultimate freedom and control over what you want to do with YOUR space.
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Before we start, let’s review the process
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