how's it going everybody welcome back and today we're going to be going through nine simple
steps to create a website okay and you know this will entail a whole bunch of steps that
you can actually research on your own we're just going to be getting through the basics
um you know i want to make a couple of recommendations obviously for
web hosting services that could help you uh get started with your website okay so
before we begin if you guys are interested in the uh two recommendations today so that'll be
hostinger and bluehost you will find links to pricing and discounts in the description
down below as well as full reviews if you'd like to learn more about these web hosting services
i'm not going to be talking about too much detail i just want to give you guys a little
bit of what it looks like to create a website and okay let's get started now again there are
nine steps and the first step is to choose the perfect domain okay you want to make it easy to
say and spell it has to be short and sweet you know you want to go with dot com.org or dotnet
if you're using a if you're creating a personal blog website or portfolio if it's something
personal you want to use your name and you want to always avoid numbers and hyphens because it makes
it look weird in the url plus it makes it harder for people to say what you are what your url is to
others okay now when it comes to domain names uh with hostinger you won't get a free a free domain
name unless you go with the premium but with a bluehost you will be able to get yourself a
free domain name uh for a year even if you go with the cheapest uh most basic single shared hosting
uh plan okay so keep that in mind now i would recommend generally to go with uh the pro version
but you know with bluehost you can actually get by you do get more features with bluehost if you go
with the basic uh over hostingers basic plan again hostinger's basic plan you're not going to get
much unless you go with the premium plan which is also roughly the same price as uh bluehost's basic
plan okay so that's the first thing step two is that you wanna get a web hosting and free domain
registration uh with either hostingers premium plan or the bluehost uh basic plan okay so uh
once you do that a website just needs two things really to go live a domain name and a web host
and uh you just need to make your choice really and uh me personally i recommend either bluehost
or hostinger personally if you are a beginner i would just go with bluehost i think bluehost is
a little more user friendly but they're both super easy to use anyways okay and once you sign up with
your hosting service you will be able to claim your domain uh and obviously once you just sign
up and everything and you're logged in and you put in your information and your billing details and
whatnot you will be able to claim uh you'll get the option to claim your domain and you'll be able
to uh you know select whatever domain i'm sure you have something in mind uh again it really depends
on your brand if it's a blog you know make sure it's your name or something as simple as it can
be okay something that people can easily memorize okay now step four is that you want to install
wordpress with hostinger or bluehost whichever you decide to go with now for me personally i'm going
to be uh using bluehost as an example uh simply because it's just my personal choice that's what
i uh recommend and uh you know once i'm logged once you're logged in and everything you have your
cpanel uh you can just uh on home you can go to your sites but you won't have any sites
so for you you can just click customize your site and you'll be taken to uh a page that looks like
this and of course if you want to access your cpanel just go to advanced same thing with a
hostinger you know on the dashboard here's your h panel it's not really called a cpanel here it's
an h panel uh but either way okay let's go to the cpanel uh let me just show you guys around this is
what it looks like we're not getting into this we are getting into the wordpress uh website creation
so once you're set up and you are into wordpress you just have to access the wordpress itself
and then you can move on to the next step which is designing uh your website with customizable themes
and this is going to look like this whether you're on hostinger or bluehost it will look
the same it's wordpress uh doesn't really matter which uh hosting provider you're using
uh wordpress is wordpress okay now you know as you can tell here we have these themes i'm using
the oceanwp theme here the ocean wordpress you can browse other um themes and whatnot but i'm
just gonna go with this one all right so we're just going to go ahead and click customize and
once you're in there you have all of these options here and you don't have to worry too much about
this section it's easy to get caught up with you know perfectionism and think that you need to get
your theme right the first time but just take it easy and make sure to have your ideas in order so
that you can execute properly okay and once you've installed and activated your theme you can move on
to appearance okay and here you have site identity colors menus and let's start with site identity
now site identity is important because this area will allow you to change your site's title as well
as a sub head or tagline in most instances you'll be able to upload a site icon as well this is
the image that appears in new browsers tabs when people are on your website now moving on to colors
colors are optional you can change your website's color palette for ocean wordpress this theme that
i'm using this section only allows you to change the color of the title text as you can tell here
okay moving on to menus which are very important this will allow you to create a navigation menu
for your website because your reader will use this menu to discover and navigate to specific
pages of your website uh you'll also be able to choose where the menu appears be it a header a
footer or a sidebar okay now the widgets and these are different tools you can place throughout your
website such as archives calendars search bars and more completely optional but can be useful
depending on what website you're creating now the home page settings are also optional this controls
whether or not you have a static home page or if your website automatically shows your latest
blog posts again this is completely optional and dependent on your website's needs now additional
css is optional this is where you can add further customization options using css code this can
be incredibly powerful if you have the right resources and knowledge to change your website
but you don't really have to mess with this if you are a beginner and then you have topography
which is important this is where you can customize all things font related that includes size of
the font what type of font you want to use and where those fonts will appear now moving on to
general options this is important because this section allows you to customize a ton of different
aspects about your website it includes things like the size of your header the icons you can use and
the titles of your pages and layouts and more now the blog part is optional as well this allows you
to change the layout of your blog as well as which posts appear on your website's main page of course
the header is very important which will allow to fully customize the header area of your website
you can add images or logos change the fonts and colors or whatever else you want to do this is
a great example of what a header looks like you know you put your home your about whatever it is
that you want to put a search bar uh whatever your website is looking like depending on your vision
and then you have your top bar which will uh edit the top area of your website you can add social
links here buttons and other pages so maybe uh somewhere around here maybe you want to add your
instagram twitter youtube whatever it is and then you have the footer widgets which is optional you
can add tools and customize your footer the footer bottom is also optional this is the part of the
website with the copyright in contact information it's very important especially if you're running
a blog or if you want people to contact you and finally you have your sidebar where you can also
add a bunch of options depending uh it is optional you don't really need that much uh with the
sidebar but it is there if you want to customize it okay so the next step step seven is you wanna
build your website's architecture if your website is a house it's currently an empty lot it has a
solid foundation and it's connected to essential utilities but it needs the walls and rooms
to build those you need to create web pages these are documents on the internet that readers access
through your website but you should think of them as the rooms of your house these are the areas
visitors will see and get to know you and your website while there are lots of different types of
web pages that exist the most essential ones are the home page your contact page your about page
your online store your blog page while there are lots of different types of web pages that
exist the most essential ones are the home page and this is the main page for your website it's
what readers see first so it is very important to be as presentable as possible you have your
contact page this page shows how your users can contact you the about page this will this page
will tell you visitors all about your website and what it's about your business whatever it is
and the online store obviously is another very important page especially if you're into ecommerce
and you're trying to sell something and your blog page and this page will be where all of your blog
posts go if you plan on publishing articles for readers to read especially if you have lots of
information uh to present okay now let's get into how you can create a home page and ocean wordpress
this theme gives you two different ways to create a home page your latest posts and a static page
your latest post is your home page which showcases your latest blog posts and a static page is where
you create a page to become your home page the first option is straightforward create blog posts
and the home page will automatically show all your latest blog posts okay now let's go back to
our wordpress homepage uh and let's just go to the dashboard right here and here you have your
pages okay go to pages add new and here we are so um let's just create something um sample webpage
okay and we'll just put something along the lines of welcome okay this this is this is
enough for now just to show you guys all right okay so from this plus button you'll
be able to add paragraphs videos audios images whatever it is that you're trying to add so
once you're done okay you want to save your draft so remember this is called sample webpage let's
just you know we're going with whatever create save first of all all right and you can preview it
if you'd like i don't want to preview let's just go with publish all right and once it is published
this is when we can go to the next step okay so let's head back to our wordpress dashboard all
right and from there you want to go to appearance and then customize then go to your home page
settings and select a static page okay and this is where you can uh select one of these now
earlier i just made sample webpage right now i had chosen this before so let's just go with
sample webpage which is what i created earlier and that's pretty much it now i can just click
publish and congratulations you just created your very first home page now how to create an about
contact landing or any other page uh is also kind of the same thing creating any other page for your
website will consist mostly of the same steps as your home page first head back to your wordpress
dashboard so let's just go back and again go to page add new page and in the page editor create
the page you want to create and it's really as simple as that however if you allow your readers
to easily discover the page you'll have to create some navigational elements for them and in the
page editor you create another page and it really is as simple as that so maybe um let's say contact
all right this is the contact page and you know here's my number right and then save draft you can
preview it if you'd like to see a quick preview or you can just go ahead and publish if you are
um confident in your creations and then let's head back to our wordpress because step 8 is where you
can connect your web pages with menus and this is going to be very important so we're gonna go to
appearance customize then click on menus create new menus okay you can create a new menu here
here you'll be able to give your menu a name and choose where you'd like it to appear for now we're
gonna go with something like you know um sample and let's say you want it to appear where do you
want this menu to appear right you want it to let's say um be at the top okay the top so let's
pick the top bar click next now it's time to add some licks click on add items and let's say we're
going with contact so you can just add contact and i want you to notice where it appeared here uh
so you know you wanna you can add whatever it is that you're trying to add uh now notice i did add
it to the top bar so you know if you wanted to add it to the header or the top bar or whatever
it is that you're trying to add you know i'm just kind of showing you examples here so let's just go
with contact and we'll we'll just stick with that nothing more nothing less because from here you
can add pages by the pages that you have already created custom links to different websites blog
posts categories tags and more for now i'm just gonna add that and we'll move on uh from there and
uh yeah as you can tell it appeared right there let's just go with publish just it really is as
simple as that so as you can tell i just created a contact menu right here here you've got the home
and about i could have added the contact here but i'm just showing you guys the different options
that are available so that is pretty much the gist of it really that this is how you can create
uh your website uh again i made things super simple you know there's nothing that i uh i don't
really have any content right so you know you want to add your images your paragraphs your blog posts
whatever it is that you're trying to add and this is how you can come up with your website
in very simple uh steps so that'll be it for this video hopefully you guys learned something if you
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