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- [Instructor] Hey guys, it's Robert
from The College Investor here,
and today I am excited to share with you
how quick and easy it is to set up a website
using Bluehost.
Now if you guys know I recommend Bluehost
as a great starter platform to get started
and I have a special deal with them,
if you get started with Bluehost
you can get started for 2.95 a month
which comes with a free domain
and like 1-Click WordPress install and everything,
and it is so easy to get started I guarantee you
that you could get the basics of your website
started in 15 minutes or less,
and I'm gonna walk you through how easy it is.
So I'm gonna click get started now here on the homepage
and seriously, we're gonna get started right now.
I'm gonna select the 2.95 per month plan
and you get to pick out a new domain name,
and I wanna call this the crazywackytestingsite.com
and I wonder if that's taken.
I bet you it's not.
Maybe it is, you never know.
So let's hit it.
Boom, it is not started yet.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna enter
all my information right here and it's gonna come right up
and there we go, and you can choose your pricing
and you get the best prices if you go for a 36 month plan,
but you can get still great prices if you do 12
or 24 months, but we're gonna do 36 months
just because I'm going to enter this.
So what do these other things mean?
Domain privacy protection gives you,
it keeps your information private
so that people can't look up your domain name
and you know, find out more about you.
I don't really care, I'm gonna turn it off.
Site back up, this kit can back up your site at WordPress,
once again, I'm gonna turn that off, it's just an extra.
And then SiteLock Security, it's another thing
that they have, I'm gonna turn that off, it's extra.
None of this stuff you guys need to get started,
especially if you are just going to have a basic domain.
Then here at the bottom I have it off screen,
but you enter all your information with your credit card,
and you click a box that says you agree to the terms
and services, and now you're started.
Boom, creating your account.
Boom, come on processing, come on processing.
Let's go, there it goes, boom.
Congratulations, here's a few special offers,
no thanks, we don't need that.
And we are all set to go.
So we gotta create our password and then we can get
rocking and rolling for our domain name.
I've read and agree to it.
Nope.
We are creating your account.
All right, you successfully created your account,
let's log in and get going.
I don't care, we're gonna set up WordPress for you.
Let's rock and roll, rock and roll.
All right, once it does all of its thing
you can literally start building your WordPress site
here by clicking that.
We'll go here and then we're gonna...
It says we're continuing to provision your site.
Let's see if it's all ready.
All right guys, once it finishes populating
and getting everything rocking and rolling
you will have this screen on the back end
of your WordPress page and it's super easy to get started,
you just literally click Log in to WordPress
and it will log you in to you WordPress site
and this is what your backend of WordPress looks like
as soon as it comes up here.
And it just says what kind of site would you like
to help set up?
And you can choose Business or Personal,
but honestly you don't really need help
'cause I'm gonna show you exactly what you can do
and how WordPress works.
So this is what the backend of WordPress looks like
and let me just go and I'll visit the site
and I'll show you what the front end looks like.
This is what your default looks like right now.
It's still being configured, but that's okay,
'cause here is the backend and you know,
there's a bunch of different things that you can do
to get set up here.
So you have different posts, and posts
are like your articles, so you have a Hello world
post right now, that looks like that.
And there is your front end, it's starting to get populated.
You got your theme, so your theme is all the design
around it which we can choose our theme.
You have pages, so pages are like your About pages.
Here's a sample page.
It looks very similar to Post, but just a little different.
So here's the posts again, has a side bar usually,
and there's your pages.
Pages are good for your About page, your Contact page,
different things like that.
Right here you can choose your appearance.
So you know, there's a couple of different themes
that already come there and then you can choose
right here on the right hand side, add new theme,
and there is a bunch of different themes
that you can choose from to like decorate
your WordPress site.
I mean there's just, there's so many.
So you could really make it feel like you,
you can change your images, and it's like one click install
to get these things going.
So like if you're gonna have a page
that's just like with your name and you know,
all about you, maybe you choose a theme like that one
or you know, I don't know, this one,
you get like a cool picture of yourself,
let's install it, let's make it happen.
Installed, and I will activate it.
And now when we go to our pages that's what it looks like,
so it's a different theme, and here's the pages,
and there's that, and then you can,
it's still loading some of that up.
But then you got all, you know, there's different stuff
that you could have.
You got different plugins, so plugins add additional
functionality to your site.
You have Jetpack which is one of the best plugins
so I definitely recommend you install that.
You know, you got a bunch of different ones, WPForms,
so that allows you to have a contact form on your site.
But here you go, I mean we are probably
about the, you know, 10 minute mark at least
or on the underside of that, and you have a website here
that is almost ready to rock and roll.
You just gotta add in your own information,
you gotta add in your own post which is super easy to do,
I'll show you how to do it really quick, add new.
You just type in your title, like Welcome to my new website.
Here is my new website!
Yay for me for setting it up!
You can also add in things like pictures,
you can add your form in there,
and then over here on the right hand sidebar
I'll shoot this over, you can just choose Publish,
and boom, there you go.
And now we have our new post that is up.
I'll put this back here.
I'll show you, you can click on the link,
and then you know, welcome to my new website,
here's my new website, thank you for,
yay for me for setting it up.
Boom, like super easy, super fun to play with.
You know, like I said, I recommend that everybody
creates their own website with their own personal name
so that you can have this forever,
whether or not you ever use it,
but you should definitely own your name,
have a little resume set up, you can link
to your social media profiles, you know,
there's just a ton of value in having your own website
with your own domain name, and here we are
in less than 10 minutes it's all set up,
super easy to go, and rock and rolling.
That's why I love Bluehost, like literally I think
I clicked like four buttons to get here,
and you literally have a website rocking and rolling.
All right guys, well hopefully you find that useful,
if you did, please let me know.
Leave a comment on the site, and if you have any questions
I am here to answer your questions
because I do want you to be successful
in creating your own website for your own name.
All right guys, thank you very much,
and I will talk to you next time.