Getting online is easier than ever. There are now over 200 million active websites, and a lot of them were made by regular folk like you and me. Today anyone can make a upper cervical website, regardless of technical skill level. We know it can seem like a daunting task, but there are tools available today that make the process easy. This article will walk you through making a upper cervical website-step-by-step.
There are two ways to make a website: with a website builder or with WordPress. There’s no question about it.
Choose a Domain Name
In order to build a website, the very first thing you’ll need is a domain name. The domain name is your website name and address. That address is used by visitors when they try to find your site through their web browsers. Domain names can cost anywhere from $10 to $50 a year. The usual price tag is around $15. Don’t worry if your preferred domain name is already taken. There are more than 300 million different domain names registered, but there are a billion other possibilities that are still available.
Get Web Hosting and Register Domain
In addition to having a domain name, you’ll also need website hosting. Web hosting is a service that hosts and stores your website files on a secure server that is always up and running. Without a web host, your site will not be accessible for others to read and browse. Affordable and reliable web hosting for new websites costs usually between $3 to $10 a month. Less than a cup of coffee, but an important investment for your website success. Whichever web hosting company you sign up with, make sure it has the following features:
FREE domain name with SSL (for security)
One-click-install for WordPress (free)
Custom email accounts
Unlimited or unmetered bandwidth (no traffic limitations)
Customer support, preferably 24/7 live chat
If you find a website hosting that offers all of the things above, you’ve likely found a good provider.
Customize Your Website Design and Structure
With your bare website alive and kicking, it’s now time to make it feel more like your own by picking a nice design, customizing it, and adding branding elements.
Choose a Theme for Your Website
Install the Theme You Like
Import a Design
Add a Logo
Change the Website Color Scheme and Fonts
Add a Sidebar
Experiment With the Theme You Built
Add Content/Pages to Your Website
Web pages are easy to create in WordPress. But before we get into the how-to, let’s discuss what pages you should create in the first place. Most websites will find the following pages essential:
Homepage – it’s the first page that your visitors see when they go to your website
About page – a page explaining what your website is about
Contact page – a page letting visitors contact you
Blog page – a listing of your most recent blog posts; if you’re not planning on blogging, you can use the blog page as a place for your company news and announcements
Services page – if the website you’re building is for a business, use this page to showcase your services
Many of the pages above will be very similar in structure – the only difference being the content on the actual page. Basically, once you learn how to create one page, you’ll know how to create them all.
Set Up a Navigation Menu
With a range of good-looking pages created, the next step in our quest to how to create a website is to set up your navigation (a website menu). The menu is what your visitors will use to go from page to page on your site.
