How To Make Your Own Website

In our free tutorial ‘How To Make Your Own Website’ you will learn step-by-step how to create your own website from start to finish with the  popular free WordPress script. What Is WordPress? WordPress is a free web design script that lets you create a beautiful website or blog. There...

To build your own website you will need: A domain name for your website Your website needs a name. It’s called ‘domain name’ and it is the online address of your website like www.yourwebsite.com. All domain names worldwide need to be registered with ICANN (Internet Corporation...

How To Select The Best Name For Your Website Once you start looking for your domain name, you will notice that most good names are already taken. So you might have to settle with a less perfect option. Here are the four most important things to keep in mind when selecting your domain name: Select...

As we explained in the previous lesson, the digital files that make your website need to be stored on a web server, so your website can be reached by all internet visitors at any time. A web hosting company provides this service by running web servers with special software to ensure the security, accessibility...

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...

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....

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...

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,...

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....

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...