How To Create A Website : Step By Step Guide For Beginners

In this simple guide, we will teach you the process about how website developers build their websites and how you can also build it yourself without paying huge amount of money to developers for creation of a website.

Step1- Get Web Hosting And Domain Name

There are mainly two things that you should know to set up a website.

Domain ( Is the name of your website like yoursitename.com )

Web Hosting ( This is a service which stores your website files and documents and also make it visible on the internet.)

In other to have a full functioning websites, you need the above two Features . The best and the most popular domain registrar and a web hosting company is Bluehost. We use it most times to build our website and clients website and the results are crazily amazing.

Step 2. Set Up Your Website

next thing is to install WordPress because in the beginning it’s the CMS that we decided to use to build our website. So let’s start.

Go to your C-Panel.

Search for WordPress

Select the domain on which you want to install WordPress on.

Click on “Install Now” and you will get access to your new website.

Step 3. Design Your Website

After installing WordPress and followed all the procedures, you will now have a newly basic website. Now this is just the default WordPress theme installed on your website. Now to start designing your website , we need to change this ugly theme and install our own theme.

Log In To Your Website

We are going to log into our website back office. This is the link you will be using anytime you want to login into your back office of your website to design your site. https://yoursite.com/wp-admin [Replace “yoursite” with your domain name]

Installing Themes

Hover your mouse to appearance
Click on theme from the drop down menu.
On the theme page, click on add new.
On the search bar, search for generate press.
Click on install and last click on activate.

Set the Title And Tagline of your Website

Go to Settings
Select General
Fill in your title and tagline in the form below .

Basic Website Settings

Permalink
Profile
Static Page And Home Page

Create A Page

Click on Page
Click on Add New
Give A title to your Page
Click On Publish

Repeat the process and create multiple pages.

To create Menu

Hover over appearance
Select Menu
Click on manage location and select the location of your menu.
Give a Name to your Menu
Select your pages you want to be on the menu from the left side box.
Arrange them in order
Click on Save Menu

To Install A Plugin

Click On Plugin
Click on Add New
On the search bar, type in the name of the plugin
Click on install
Click on Activate

Important Plugins You Need To Get Going.

Yoast SEO Or Rank Math
Google Analytics
Contact Form 7

That's all, your website is ready to publish.

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