If you are looking to develop a website for yourself or for your organization, you’ve landed on the right page. Previously, starting a website was almost a nightmare, especially when you are not so tech-savvy. But nowadays, starting a website has gotten easier by the year, and now it’s a breeze. All you have to do is blindly follow this comprehensive step-by-step guide on how to make a website. Ok – not literally blindly, else you would fall into a deep slumber.
If you think you can do it by yourself, then please follow our step-by-step guide on how to make a website in WordPress.
How to make a website of your own:-
Step 1. Setup
Choosing the wrong website platform is one of the most common mistakes that beginners make. Thank your stars you are here, so you will not be making that mistake.
If you ask us or an expert, they will tell you that a self-hosted WordPress.org site is the perfect solution. With its thousands of designs and add-ons, it allows you to create all kinds of websites.
WordPress is free for everyone to use and build any kind of website, without any restrictions.
Next in the setup process comes the domain name. A domain names the address of your website on the internet.
Go ahead and purchase a domain name and hosting. After you have successfully purchased your domain name and hosting, you will receive an email with details on how to log in to your web hosting control panel (Cpanel). This will be your dashboard from where you can control and manage everything like support, setup, emails, etc. More importantly, this is where you will install WordPress.
Step 2. Install WordPress
On your dashboard, you will find thousands of icons to do different things. Even if you have all the time in the world, don’t bother with them. You will never need to use 98% of them, so you can safely ignore them and invest your time in better places.
The only thing you need to know is to scroll down to the website section in the Cpanel and click on the WordPress icon to install it. Select the domain name where you want to install WordPress.
Now you need to enter your website name, admin username, and password for your website. And obviously, you can change them later in WordPress settings as and when you please.
Next, click on the ‘Install’ button and you should be good to go!
Step 3. Select Your Theme
How beautiful your website looks depends totally on how beautiful you want it to look. You can customize your website design to please your eyes or the eyes of your audience. The visual appearance of your website is determined by a WordPress theme. There are tons of WordPress themes that are professionally designed templates that you can install on your website to alter its appearance for HubSpot development services.
As an example, let’s take the Bento theme. It’s a popular multi-purpose free WordPress theme with flexible design options for all kinds of websites. If you happen to know the theme name or the type (like black, minimalistic, colorful, business, etc.), you can look for it by entering the keyword or name in the search field. When you find your desired theme in the search results, you need to simply install it.
Step 4. Add Content to Your Site
WordPress has two default content types – posts and pages. Posts are part of a blog and appear in an order where newer items are displayed first.
On the other hand, pages are static “one-off” type content such as the About Us, Contact Us, Privacy Policy, etc. By default, WordPress displays your blog posts on the front page of your website, which you can change to any page you like.
For adding a few blog posts, head over to Posts > Add New in your WordPress admin area. Add a post title, content, and images in the visual post editor. You can also use the extra options like post formats, tags, and categories. You may choose to save your post as a draft or publish it to make it visible on your website
Step 5. Customizing and Tweaking Your Website
After you have created some content on your website, you can customize and put it all in a more presentable manner on your website. Let’s start by setting up a static front page.
Setting up a Static Front Page
Visit Settings > Reading page in your WordPress admin area. Go to the ‘Front page displays’ option and click on the static front page and then select ‘Pages’ you created earlier for your home and blog pages. And then click on the Save Changes button at the bottom to save your changes.
WordPress will use the page titled ‘Home’ as your site’s front page and the ‘Blog’ page to display your blog posts.
Change Site Title and Tagline
During the installation process, you must have come across the option to choose your site’s title. WordPress adds a dummy tagline to your site title that says ‘Just another WordPress site’. Usually, the tagline is a one-liner that describes your website. You can change your site’s title as well as the tagline at any time by going to Settings > General page. If you wish, you can also leave the tagline field blank. And then don’t forget to click on the Save button to store your settings.
Step 6. Installing Plugins
Plugins in WordPress are like apps for your WordPress site that allow you to add features to your WordPress site. Like contact forms, chatbots, photo galleries, etc. More than 49,000 free WordPress plugins are available for download. There are some paid plugins sold by third-party websites and developers too.
With these many plugins at your disposal, you may find it hectic to understand which plugins to install. So we have assembled some essential plugins you should install on your site right away. And the best part – all of them are free.
Features
- WPForms Lite – Lets you add a contact form to your WordPress site.
- Envira Gallery Lite – Lets you add beautiful image galleries to your WordPress site
- Soliloquy Lite – Displays beautiful image sliders on your website
Website Optimization
- Yoast SEO – Enhance your WordPress SEO and generate more traffic from Google
- WP Super Cache – Boost your website speed by serving cached pages
Security
- UpdraftPlus – Create automatic scheduled backups of your website
- Sucuri – Great website security audit and malware scanner
Step 7. Mastering WordPress
WordPress is such an expansive and powerful web development tool that from time to time you may find yourself looking for some quick answers. But the good news is that you will find plenty of free WordPress help available. Or you may contact us if you are lazier.
So far we have understood how to make a website, add a theme, and install essential plugins. If you want to take it one step further, you can explore other tools like adding an eCommerce store, starting your own podcast, creating a membership website, making a website directory, creating a coupons website, building a reviews website, creating multilingual websites, create a job board website, create a question and answers website, create a wiki knowledgebase website.
Which is the best platform to make a website?
The main question is which is the best platform to make a website. Although there are many online website builders that help you set up a website, we highly recommend you use self-hosted WordPress as your website platform. Why, you may ask – the reason is quite simple. WordPress happens to be the most popular website platform available today, powering 28% of all the websites on earth.
The good news is……WordPress is free and it comes with thousands of website designs, extensions, and other irresistible goodies. It is highly flexible and works with almost every third-party tool and service available in the Hubspot development service.
How to make the most out of this tutorial?
This is a very simple and detailed step-by-step tutorial on how to make a website. We have presented this elaborative tutorial as a step-by-step guide to designing a website so that it is easy to understand for beginners and novices. If you just follow along with the instructions, you’ll end up having a very professional-looking website in the end. If you’ve long been wondering how to build a great website by yourself, you’ve landed on the right page.