Developing a website is not as complicated as it sounds. If you are interested in being the person who manages your website on a daily basis and has full control over its content, these steps to create an easy website will be useful for you to manage your own website.
The term website covers a lot of ground, and creating a website can include everything from building a few pages of static text to developing complicated web applications like Facebook, Netflix, or Amazon. But no matter how humble or grand a site may be, the basic principles behind creating a website remain the same.
To show you what those principles are, we’ve rounded up the key steps at the heart of making a website so you can know what to expect when it’s time to take a crack at making your own.
Domain Name and Hosting
The first part of setting up your website/blog is choosing your domain name, as this is the URL/brand name that your website will be known by and found when typed into the search bar. Alternatively, you can use the domain name search tool to see if a particular name is available for the website you’re going to create.
Installing WordPress
Once you’ve finished the registration process and have a domain name for your website/blog, it’s time to install the software that will power your website and allow you to blog, sell products or share whatever it is that is important to you. Installing and setting up WordPress is very easy and only takes a few clicks to get your website/blog up and running online.
WordPress is straightforward to use and will allow you to manage your website with little or no technical knowledge. Best of all, WordPress powers some of the largest and most influential websites on the internet, such as The New Yorker, BBC America, Beyonce Bloomberg Professional, and the Microsoft News Center, among many other highly credible websites.
Website Theme/Design
At this point, you can now start creating and posting your own content if that’s what you want to do. However, we suggest that you choose a theme (website design) to make your blog look more attractive and professional, especially for those going to visit your website and navigate through your soon-to-be content-filled site/blog. While you can simply keep your website as it is and use the default/generic theme that was chosen for your site when you signed up, there are a ton of professional themes that allow for more customization, personality, and individuality.
Themes/designs function to provide a unique look for your website and allow for specific types of functionality that can differ from one theme to another.
Configure Your Website
Now that your website is up and running and you’ve chosen your theme, you’ll want to configure your website so that you provide the best experience for your visitors. Set up your navigation and make it easy for your visitors to know what your website is about and give them easy access to the most important parts of your website. Choose two or three primary colors to represent your site but don’t go overboard as too many colors can turn off your visitors or detract them from what is important.
Organize, separate, and highlight the important areas of your site to provide additional clarity. Install any plugins you may need to get your website functioning just the way you want and add any final touches that you may want on your website.
Add content
If you’ve made it to this part, congratulations, you’re all set. Now you get to have fun and start adding content to your website!
If you’ve made it this far, then hopefully, our step by step directions on how to create a website/blog has helped you get started with your own
