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If you have hosted your website with Hostgator or another web hosting company that uses cpanel as administrative part for your website, you can upload files (e.g. a custom logo) to your web server using the file manager. Login to your cpanel at http://www.yourwebsite.com/cpanel and click on the file...

Get The Right Hosting Plan Let’s assume you already have a hosting account with Hostgator for your first website, and now want to add a second website to it. So how do you do that? First, you need the right hosting plan. If you have the Hatchling plan, you need to upgrade to Hostgator’s...

‘On-Site’ Engine Optimization refers to what you have on your website, and how relevant this is to what people are searching for. Not only your content is an important on-site criteria for your website’s ranking in the search engines, but also the invisible elements, the ‘code’...

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Congratulations – your website is finally ready, and you can start adding content to it. Here is a brief guide where to start: As we have seen in previous lessons, you can access your website’s administrative area by logging into it at http://www.mywebsite.com/wp-admin (replace mywebsite.com...

Change your website’s template By now your website has the perfect settings, but still the default WordPress template. We are going to change this now. In the left dashboard menu under ‘Appearance’, click on ‘Themes’ to see your current theme and any available themes....

How To Install Plugins When you go to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/, you will find currently over 10,000 plugins that add additional functions to the basic WordPress script. There is a plugin for almost anything you can imagine to do with your website: you can add contact forms, photo galleries,...

After you finished installing WordPress as we showed you in the previous lesson, you should now see the default WordPress theme when you type your website’s url in your internet browser, and can log into the admin area of your new website at http://www.mysite.com/wp-admin (replace mywebsite.com...

By now, the Godaddy nameservers should point at the Hostgator account, and when you type your website’s name in your internet browser, you should see the default Hostgator page. If that is the case you can now start installing WordPress. It’s an easy process that should take only a minute....

If you have followed our previous lessons, by now you should have: Your website’s domain name with Godaddy Your hosting account with Hostgator You should also have received a confirmation email from each company that your account is set up and ready to use. In these emails you will also...