Are you thinking to make a website. Either you are looking to share useful information or planning to make a business website, Word Press can be the best and easy solution to go ahead.
Word Press is most popular blog engine and content management system used widely by bloggers and website makers because of many reasons. The most common reasons of WP is its easy usability and hundreds of free useful features.
This article will show 7 easy steps to make your own website using Word Press.
Step1:
The first step is to register a domain name for your website. Its a unique name on internet representing your website. It can be anything, such as your own name , your service name or your idea.
Some common domain extensions are:
com , net , org , info , biz etc.
A dot com or dot net domain will cost you around $11 per year. There are many domain registrars online with affordable plans. Go to name.com and register a domain for yourself.
Step2:
After getting the domain name the next step is internet hosting or in simple words it is called as website hosting. A web hosting account allows your domain to become visible on internet in the form of website. A hosting company provides all the necessary features required to make your website appear on internet globe. Fortunately, web hosting has become extremely affordable these days.
Go to Shopaserver.com (recommended host) and purchase an account for your website. I recommend to start with their basic plan. Shopaserver offers variety of plans with remarkable features and prices. One of the best web hosting on internet. They have variety of plans covering cheap shared hosting , cheap vps and cheapest reseller hosting with moneybookers.
Step3:
Now is the time for necessary configurations to bind your website to internet using the DNS record provided by your hosting company. Login to your domain control panel and add the provided DNS record i.e ns1. Hosthost . com etc.
Step4:
Install Word Press using Fantastico. Login to cpanel control panel with credentials emailed to you while purchasing of web hosting account. Locate icon of Fantastico under Advance tab and click on wordpress new installation. Fill in the form with simple information e.g blog name, email id etc. and that’s it you have installed WP.
Step5:
Now you have installed the Word Press blog and you are ready to go ahead to post articles , images and videos into your new website using wp-admin, an easy to manage admin panel.
Login to wp-admin and start adding new posts.
Step6:
Start creating web pages using the left-side bar within the wp-admin interface. WP is highly customize-able, you can add new useful plug-ins with tons of useful features, hundreds of free designs and
forms etc.
Step7:
Start earning money by placing advertisements and banners on your website. You can apply for google-adsense or offer private advertisements to make some good money.