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Hey, what is up Design Nation! In this session
I'm going teach you how to make your own portfolio website
in five minutes or less
So the service that we're going to be using is called Bluehost. So if you go to
designerhacks.com/bluehost , that'll take you to
the website that is an affiliate link for me
and then when you get here you want to click 'Get Started Now'
for the new domain I'm going to put my name
so tonygushanas.com. Next.
And you're going to type in all these fields.
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I'm gonna blur this out just for my own privacy.
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I don't need any of this stuff, so I'm just going to scroll down
and hit complete
and it says, "Welcome to bluehost". Everything is setup. So I just need a password
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And I'll login to my domain
I'm going to go to hosting
When i get to this page I'm going to click WordPress. I want to install it.
Now I want to check this, and install now.
So right now Bluehost is installing wordpress
its complete now so i can view credentials.
down here in this alert is, it says action
you can view credentials so I wanna hit that, and it's going to have a username and
password here
I've blurred mine out for my own privacy. What you wanna do is copy your password
and know your username for your website
down under Meta there will be a thing called login, so you type in your username and
password
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It looks like I have some updates, so I'm quickly going to
update. I wanna make sure everything is current. I'm going to select all and hit update
plugins. And then I want my page to have a nice feel, so I'm going to go to Appearance > Themes
in here if you go to WordPress.org
themes there are a bunch of awesome
themes that you can use for free, so I'm going to go to
Popular to see what the most used themes are
I'm going to scroll down, I've already sort of scoped out a
theme that I think works really well
So as soon as I find it... It's this guy, So I'm just going to click that
and then hit install
you can do a live preview, I've already done that but I'm going to hit Activate
so it just activates this theme for my site. And now if you go to
my website you can see that
instead of that sort of bland appearance that I had
before, I now have this nice-looking theme here
Because I have a little bit of time left I'm going to
customize my team, so I'm going to come over here to appearance where it has
theme options and in here
if you click on slider it will bring up this menu
and what you can do is if you go to your site
you'll see there's a slider here
and i wanna add image to that so that's what I'm going to do. So I'm just going to drag and drop some
files into
here so I know a place where I
have them
just gonna drag and drop
this is a good one
it'll upload
and then after that
it shows the image
large is fine. And then I'm going to say use this image
and then we're good to go. So I'm just gonna save
And now you can see my slider image
has my photo and more photos you have the more you can scroll through
and then you can customize these
through that same menu. And in no time
you'll have your portfolio website up, running, for everyone to see.
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and as always happy happy. Alright designers
just because this episode designer hacks is over doesn't mean we're leaving you
out in the cold
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and we'll see you on the next episode of Designer Hacks
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