DEVELOPING A WEBSITE IS EASIER WITH WORDPRESS

 

 

WordPress is one of the coolest sites that exist up to date. Receiving monthly trafficking of over 21.9 billion views with a whooping statistic of 409 million new people each month, it’s also one of the most populated. This open house software has got you covered from developing apps to building websites or even creating your blogs. It happens to be one of the most powerful blogging and CMS (website content management system) until today.

If you are a newly established entrepreneur who wishes to expand their business network publically but is having trouble with some guidance and financial sustenance, WordPress might be your go-to website building option. Regardless of the kind of business you have, be it creative, technical, academic, or anything out of the ordinary, you can most definitely rely on WordPress and the services it has to offer. It is also just as effective for those bloggers and influencers turned entrepreneurs who are looking to seize the opportunity their platform has to offer to cater to a broader audience.

From registering your domain to hosting and installing a theme to creating content for your site, allow us to walk you through the simple steps on how you can create an intricate website for your start-up/blog and also make the most out of it while you are at it. Creating a personalized professional website that is inexpensive and convenient to create has never been easier.

Before we go ahead with the steps, let us answer some FAQs while we are at it.

What is needed to build up a website?

These are the three main things that you will need:

• Domain: this is the name of your website like facebook.com
• WordPress hosting: all your website files are stored here
• Last but not least, the website building needs uninterrupted 45mins of your time.

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How much cash is needed?

The answer to this lies with you, what sort of a website do you wish to build? An ordinary business website can cost you as low as $100 per annum. However, if you opt for a more professional look, it can go up to $30,000 per year.

Our personal opinion here, do not jump to investing a lot in the very first go, keep a slow pace, and begin with something small, and as you grow, so can your website. With this technique, you will save a lot of money, minimize your loss (in case if you come across such a situation), and avoid overspending.

Why WordPress?

There may be a million other website building platforms crawling over the internet, but nothing beats WordPress. A lot of users make a mistake by choosing the wrong platform and end up with nothing. WordPress is a safe bet.

WordPress is known for its services across the globe—WordPress rules around 28% of the websites on the internet.

The best part, you can also use it for free with thousands of design templates and extensions to choose from. By free, we meant ‘freedom to use, build-up, modify, and redistribute the software without having to pay anything.’ However, some costs are involved in other areas.

It is flexible and is compatible with almost any third-party tool out there.

Alright, let’s begin.

1. Choose your Domain

Here is one more detail you need to know about the free part. WordPress is free because you have to arrange your domain name and hosting; this is what costs money.

What is the domain? As mentioned above, the domain is the website address on the internet, e.g., google.com, facebook.com, bing.com, etc.

The next part is hosting. Every website present on the internet needs hosting to run.

An average rate of a domain name could cost you around $14.99/year, with hosting costing you about $7.99/month. For someone who is a beginner, this is a lot.

Luckily, Bluehost offers 60% off hosting to WP users, and the offer also includes a free domain name. Now, what is Bluehost? Bluehost is a leading hosting company in the world and is recommended by WP as their hosting partner. So, it’s a win-win for everybody.

1. Installation

At this point, you will find many icons in the cPanel; 95 % of them are of no use to you.

• Scroll to the website option in the cPanel and click on WordPress
• You will find a Bluehost Marketplace quick install screen for WP
• Click ‘Get Started’ to continue
• You have to select your domain name now, choose one from the down drop field and click on ‘next.’
• Type in the name of your website, admin username, and of course, password to keep your website protected. This can be edited further in the settings as well
• Click on every checkbox and hit ‘Install.’
• When the installation is done, click on the ‘installation complete’ link, and it will redirect you to the login screen. Way to go, you just created your very first website
• This is what your login URL would appear as http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin
• Log in with your user name and password

You’re all set now.

1. Website Theme

Here is the fun part; you get to be creative. WordPress has its very own website templates for you to choose from.

They are professionally designed; you just have to install them on your website to change the appearance and make it look appealing since every site, by default, has a basic theme, which is kind of dull and boring.

You will find thousands of free and paid website themes, go for the one that suits your taste and business best.

1. Website content

Now we’re talking business. It’s time to make your website look complete, and that can only be done with appropriate content.

By default, WP comes with two types of content; posts and pages. Posts are a blog like content that appear in reverse-chronological order.

Whereas pages are static content like, contact us, about us, vision and mission, etc.

1. Customizing

Now you are done with the basics; you can now tweak and customize your website according to your tastes, bring it into shape, and make it more eye-catching.

You can do this by:

• Setting up the static front page
• Change the tagline and site tiles.
• Setup the ‘comments’ setting
• Make navigation menus (home, service, contact, blog, etc.)

1. Plugins

Plugins are basically like apps for your website. They work by allowing you to add certain features to your website. There are around 49,000 various plugins for WP. Some of the popular ones are:

• GrandSpace is a multipurpose, fully responsive WordPress theme that comes with a white label feature that allows agencies and freelancers to use it freely on their clients’ websites.
• PicoSpace is a fast and secure WordPress theme compatible with all page builders.
• NanoSpace is for the modern developers, looking for a fast and straight forward tool with SEO optimization. It has everything you could ever imagine
• WP Super Cache can improve the speed of your site with cached pages
• Sucuri is a malware scanner and security audit of the website.

Conclusion

WordPress is an excellent website, and very straightforward and quick to master, you will get the hang of it along the way. With these simple steps, you can build a website of your dreams in no time.