- Okay Nealey today we're gonna put you up to the test.
I wanna see how long it takes you
to build a website for my coffee shop.
I'm giving you five minutes and
I'm about to hit go on this timer. You ready?
- I'm definitely charging you a premium if
I have to build a website in five minutes, but I'm ready.
- Okay, okay, all right. Starting the timer and go.
- All right. So let's go ahead and build your website.
So, we want to start building a brand new site.
You wanna offer a blog post so you can talk about
your awesome coffee and you provide information.
If you want anything else, we're gonna need to
add a couple more minutes onto this, this challenge here
but we'll keep it simple for now.
- Sounds good!
- This site is optimized for speed.
You're in the California area, so north America is fine.
For the sake of speed we'll use a GoDaddy template,
and I believe there's a coffee shop option
already here for you, but there's lots of ones
to kind of get you started in going.
- Oh, yeah, that one looks sharp!
- But barista, it is.
Your, your username.
So never use admin or administrator, but we'll
change this once we're actually done with the site,
so your site's a bit more secure.
And in this update process, now it's installing the,
the WordPress onto the server, updating all the settings
and importing that awesome template
to help us kind of speed up the process
of building a website.
There's still a lot that goes into it
but this at least makes it a little bit easier.
All right, now that it is up and running,
I'll go ahead and close out the template
but you can see that the template has been added.
All your awesome coffee is here.
We even have Yoast pre-installed with our environment
so you can update your search engine descriptions.
So now there's a lot you can do with the
the editing experience itself,
like editing the image is pretty simple.
You would just click on the image
and an option appears to replace it or adding content in.
Up here, this little plus is where you can add
in all of your extra content.
So whether it's paragraphs or headings or quotes
more images, things like that, you can do that here.
This is referred to as like the block editor.
So like, think of these as like Lego pieces.
So you keep adding different blocks
and blocks to build out your website and layout.
Um, but if we were to just use just the base template
without editing any of the content
it would essentially look like this.
And you don't have to worry about this not secure.
It's basically installing that SSL in like the back end.
It just takes a little bit longer.
That way it doesn't prevent you from going into doing it.
All right, that's it. That's your website, right?
No other customizations needed.
I can beat win this five minute challenge
or you want me to edit some more?
- Ah, well.
- I think I should edit some more.
- It works. It looks sharp.
It's under five minutes. Well done, Nealey.
- I gotta make it you though.
So let's edit some texts just to show you how easy this is
Not typing edit.
Emma's gotta make it personalized in you.
The more you can really talk about yourself and
your not in a, like a conceited way,
but like talk about who you are
like your story, your why, the
the better cause people can buy from anywhere.
They, they wanna buy from someone they relate
to and resonate with.
So you wanna have like your personal approach.
So I would probably put some your coffee here too
but also maybe a picture of your shop or your location.
I sent you that Dropbox
you still haven't sent those over to me.
I'm waiting for the images, Emma
Don't be one of those clients.
- Wow. Way to call me out.
I wanna have our, our mantra kickstart your morning with us.
- Okay.
- Coffee in front, ramps in the back.
- So this template doesn't necessarily have that option,
but let me go ahead and just add the content.
The template is a starting point is getting me
to what we actually need.
Let me go ahead and look at the layout,
and I want to add a hero section.
And I can use the arrows right here to move it up or down.
Let's move it up. What was your mantra?
Kickstart what?
- Kickstart your morning with us!
- Perfect.
- Coffee in front.
Ramps in the back.
(keyboard clacking)
- Why not?
- Why not? Either way.
- With your website, what do you want people to do
when they get to your site?
Are they, are you wanting to get them the butts in seats?
Or you want them to just send you an email?
Set up an appointment with your shop?
Like what are you trying to get them to do?
- I mean, yeah, I definitely want them to come visit,
and enjoy the appeal of the coffee
and the skateboard ramps in the back.
So yeah, visit us is great. I think another thing we're
really trying to push would be our gift cards.
And so definitely with, you know, holidays
around the corner, I think having an option to
purchase a gift card makes it great
for folks that can't necessarily make it in today
to wake up with us.
- Okay. I like that.
So I'll have those main call to actions there.
I'll increase the height a little bit.
Maybe not that much.
Um, probably center the content
since the rest of the content's kind of centered.
And then let's add some type of image
to the background here.
Why not? Let's do that one.
- Why not?
- So we can't see any of the content here.
So we wanna make sure that we either darken it
or lighten it. So in your background settings,
you can add some opacity
and then we're gonna wanna make sure
that the color here is different.
So the text. Let's make the text white.
Color, text, white.
That one's fine, but this one has to change.
There we go.
Probably wanna make the, the background there
a different color than black.
So we can choose a little image here.
We can go with a red for now.
- [Emma] Ooh!
- So we have kickstart your morning with us.
We added a custom section with your content,
your call to actions.
We have some other coffee information here.
I'll let you go nuts and go wild with the personalizations.
But we have the website.
Technically it's up and running where we have your
kickstart your morning with us. I'll fix this padding.
Cause I think I added two sections when I added that one.
But we have your site here. It does the job.
It has your social links here. And we can go
and even more and talk about your awesome business,
and all your cool skate park tricks, your ramps,
and everything else, while you're drinking coffee.
I still wanna see you go down your ramps
while you're sipping a little espresso
in the smallest cup imaginable without spilling anything.
But you have your site.
Ultimately, your site is another representation
of your business.
The more that you show off who you are, what you do,
why you do it and make it easy for people to
do whatever it is that you want them to do.
For you, it's visit you.
So find out your location and purchase gift cards,
the better make sure that experience is first and foremost.
Don't have them hunting around on the site
but I'll spend a little bit more time
on this for you just cuz I like, yeah, Emma
and I'll make this a little bit more personalized for you.
- All right, thanks Nealey!
It looks sharp and I feel more confident going
in the next time I wanna edit.
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