This step by step guide is designed to help any beginner interested in building a professional looking website, without the need of learning HTML or any other programing language. Every step is explained in details, and includes a screen shot, to help the readers to better understand the whole process of creating and maintaining their website.
The secret behind is a content management system called WordPress, which is the most popular free online publishing platform available now, and currently is serving more than 20% of the world web.
WordPress simply makes the whole process of creating and updating a website extremely easy, and cost effective. Those are just some of the reasons why many famous names out there are using WordPress for creating and managing their websites. For example New York Post, Sony Music, LL Cool J, Snoop Dogg, Flickr, LinkedIn, The Rolling Stones, and many many others are currently running their websites under the WordPress platform.
If you follow all of the steps in this guide, pretty soon you will be able to build and manage fantastic looking websites from scratch, in just a few hours or less. This guide will also save you thousands of dollars on web developing and design. After you complete all of the steps, you will be able to :
1.Register a domain name and set up a hosting account for your website.
2.Register email address under your personal domain name.
3.Install WordPress on your website.
4.Find free high quality images, and prepare them for your website.
5.Create a company logo
6.Install a theme
7.Create main navigation menu and pages
8.Add content to your pages
9.Add social sharing, and a follow us bars with buttons for all the major social networks.
10.Insert a video to your website
11.Add secure contact form, and map to your website
12.Create an image gallery
13.Add testimonials to your site
14.Create a grid view with images for your services or products page
15.Optimize your website for the search engines