How to Create A Website
- the fast and easy guide to assist newbies to create a website in an hour
Prerequisites
If you know how to email, you’ve all the skills required to create your own website.
If you know how to raise a dog (or a cat, a pet, a baby, whatsoever), you’ve all the knowledge to build a new website!
There are a lot of similarities between raising a dog and creating a website as you can see from the illustration below. Don’t worry if you have never raised a dog or the like, you just need to know that you will need to give the dog a name and a house to live in. That’s all.
What’s Needed to Create a Website?
Many websites on the internet are built with the 4 steps described below, including the website you are now visiting (wplearner.org) as well as many other examples (personal websites and professional websites). Don’t worry if you are not a visual designer, there are many free and paid (this is the one used on wplearner.org) resources to help you to make your website professional. We will cover these in step 4.
Internet Connection
A computer connected to the internet which you can visit websites. Since you are viewing wplearner.org, you already have this.
Your Brain and Ideas
Your brain and ideas are crucial to your website – these make your website special and attractive. Congratulations! You are intelligent as you can find this guide.
Time: Only One Hour
Creating a website is fast and easy with the help of this guide. And this hour would be the most fruitful hour you would ever spend on the internet.
Money: US$6.95/month
Building a website is cheap nowadays. For US$6.95$4.95 (limited special discount for WP Learner), you will get a dedicated website working for you round the clock. The return on investment is pretty high, right?
Perhaps you have seen some advertisements offering you to create your own website for free. Beware! There is no free lunch. The service providers need to pay their own staff, internet connection and electricity bills. It is more prudent to opt for a paid quality website company.
Quick Start Guide to Create A Website
Follow the steps below to create your own website real quick!
Choose a Dog Name… Domain
Every dog needs a name, the same goes to websites. The very first step in creating a website is to choose a good name (called domain) for your website. Names of websites are usually in the form of www.domain.com or www.domain.org. Domain names are registered on a first-come-first-served basis. You need to act fast. Go to step 2 to learn how to register your website name.
Rent a House… Web Host
The next step is to get a place for your website to live in (which is called a web host or hosting). You can sign up a website hosting plan together with a domain name for one low cost of US$7.99$3.95 (limited special discount for WP Learner) per month here. Remember to uncheck any additional services (which are not essential but nice to have) during sign up to enjoy the low cost.
Get the Dog Furniture… Website Software and Your Own Email
You do not need to know the website programming (HTML, CSS, PHP) to build a website. Simply install the website software – WordPress and it’s done. WordPress is the website software for about 1/5 of all websites in the world. Best of all, it’s FREE. You can install in with the one-click WordPress installation service once you logged in the web host. You can also create unlimited number of email accounts there free of charge.
Dress Up the Dog… Website Design and Contents
Congratulations! Now you have a website accessible from anywhere in the world. You are a proud website owner! The next step is give it a beautiful website design (with the help of “themes”) and to add your contents, e.g. something about you or your company, your products and services, contact methods, etc. You can have a blog there too. It is easy to learn how to do these.
Want more details? Go To Step 1 of Create Your Own Website Guide:
click above to go to the first step of creating a website: choose a domain name
How to Create A Website: Fast and Easy Guide is created by Edward Chung, PMP, a graphic designer turned full-stack web developer and project manager. Edward learnt how to create a website the hard way, spending hundreds of hours in learning programming languages before rolling out his first design portfolio website. Edward understands the pains and thus wrote this Fast and Easy Guide to help fellow wannabe website owners to create a website in an hour’s time. If you find the “How to Create A Website” guide helpful, please consider adding Edward to your Google+ circle and following me on Twitter@edwardchungweb. Disclosure: Some links on this website are affiliate links meaning that you will support the running of this website at NO EXTRA COST to you if you make the purchase through the links. I made these recommendations based on my positive experience with those services.
