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 are thousands of themes and ‘plugins’ available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. It is estimated there are about 25 million WordPress-powered websites in the world.
With WordPress:
- You can create your own individual highly professional looking website or blog
- Install within minutes and start adding content to your website
- WordPress is free. There are no fees for templates, set-up or maintenance
- You can easily add and edit content from inside your ‘back-office’
- You select from thousands of free themes for a professional looking design
- You get hundreds of free extensions like contact forms, photo galleries, event calendars and much more
Ready to get started?
Tutorial 'How To Make Your Own Website':
- This article: Lesson 1 – Overview: What Will You Learn In This Web Design Tutorial?
- Lesson 2 – What Will I Need To Build My Website?
- Lesson 3 – Naming Your Website: Find And Buy The Best Domain Name
- Lesson 4 – Your Website Needs A Home: Getting Your Web Hosting Account
- Lesson 5 – Connecting Your Domain Name And Hosting Account: Set Your Nameservers
- Lesson 6 – Installing WordPress: The Famous 3 Minutes Set Up Of Your Website
- Lesson 7 – Optimizing Your Settings: Update And Get Ready For Google
- Lesson 8 – Installing Plugins: Add More Functions
- Lesson 9 – Make It Yours: Selecting Your Website’s Template
- Lesson 10 – Adding Content: Posts, Pages, Menu, Sidebar
Great tutorial! Thank you!
I struggle with template uploads on one of my blogs, keep getting errors. I’ll try your advice later and see if that helps.