How To ,Make Website

Steps For Making Website

Before you start worrying about colour schemes and domain names, you’ve got to decide what platform you’re going to build your website with.

Well, back in 2004 when I got started with web development, most sites were built using HTML (code), CSS and even Flash. These took a lot of time to learn and were tricky to master.That’s why most people still think creating a website from scratch is difficult or requires a lot of coding and design skills – but that’s no longer true!

Word Press Is BEST !

In 2015, content management systems (CMS) like WordPress have made creating a website accessible to everyone.

To put simply, a content management system is a user-friendly platform for building websites and managing your own online content, instead of using a bunch of loose HTML pages.

To get a new website online, you’re going to need two things:
A domain name (a web address like yoursitename.com)
Hosting (a service that connects your site to the internet)

The WordPress platform itself is free, but a domain name and hosting will cost you around $3 – $5 a month (less than a coffee, so it won’t break the bank).

Owning your own domain name looks far more professional than having your site on someone else’s domain (like yourbusiness.freewebsite.com), and it’s super affordable, too.

Plus, having your own hosting will also make sure your website loads quickly and won’t go down for hours at a time (pretty important for everyone who visits your pages.)

Once you have successfully installed WordPress to your domain, you’ll see a very basic yet clean site
But you don’t want to look like everyone else, do you? That’s why you need a theme – a design template that tells WordPress how your website should look.
here’s a list of categories available and you can also search by tags like white, clean, orange, minimal etc. Once you find the theme you like download it to your computer and unzip the files. Connect to the server as described above and upload the folder with the theme to ‘wp-content/themes’ directory.

Acessing Admin Area:

To login to the website admin area go here www.mywebsitename.com/wp-admin/ and enter login and password you have received after installation. You’re in.

Once you login you will be prompted to the main page of the WordPress content management system. You might be overwhelmed by the number of buttons, links and other options but pretty soon you’ll get used to it. The main management menu is located on the left and there are lots of settings to play around with. You can hardly spoil anything, so let the researcher inside you do this exciting job for you.

Updating Settings:

To activate the theme you have uploaded in point 9 go to Appearance >>Themes in the left panel menu. You should see the list of themes available. Click on the theme you’d like to use and confirm your choice.

To set your website title and some of the main settings go to Settings>>General.

That’s it for today. By now you have your new WordPress website up and running online. You can play around with the admin area to see how to add new posts and create new text pages. In our next post we will tell you about some necessary and useful plugins as well as the settings that will make your blog both user and search-engine friendly.