How to Make a Website Quick and Easy with GoDaddy 2019
Hey everybody! I'm Emily and in the next few minutes we're gonna build your
website. When we are done here, your site will be live on the internet
and ready for your first visitors. Okay, all set to start? Let's click on the
"Get an Account" button and go through the setup process.
We will need the usual suspects: email, username and password. Once our account
is created, we will be taken into the website builder
itself. Today we are going to set up a site for our salon. If we were setting up
a site for our accounting business or painting business or other type of
business, we would select one of those business types. The name of our site is
Perfect Nails. Now let's build the site itself. Let's choose a theme - we can
customize this further, later. If we already had brand colors we could enter
a custom hex code as well.
We are going to set up the basics for our salon now so our customers can find us
both in person and online. To find us online, our customers need to type in our
domain name. This is the web address that visitors will use to reach us. We have
two options for our domain. Our site comes with a free domain through GoDaddysites.com,
this is what we see on the page right now. Or we can use a custom domain.
Let's search for a domain and see what's out there.
Attach any social accounts using the social accounts integration.
Ok, we have a basic site setup! That was easy! Let's click the home button and let's
get back to editing. We now have a theme, a website name, and our basic information is updated.
Right now, we only have one page, the home page. Depending on the
business category you select, you may have other pages. Click on home to make
changes. Let's start at the top with our header. This is a focal point of our site,
and the first thing visitors will see when they arrive. We want to make sure it
looks great. All of the images we see throughout our site can be changed.
The GoDaddy website builder automatically adds stock photos we can choose from
which is pretty cool. Of course we also have the option to upload your own photos.
Let's change the cover photo here. Let's go to stock media to see our
pre-loaded options.
Once we have selected an image, we can also change the way it fits on the page.
If we had a logo we could upload it here. We are going to change the text that
appears on the page here, too.
The homepage automatically creates pages and sections depending on the business
category we selected in the beginning. In this case, with a salon, we see "About Us",
"Services", "Social Icons", and "Contact Us". These can all be modified, reordered or
removed. Let's change this tagline here.
Let's add a page for our services. Let's add a new section.
And we want to have a menu of our services and our prices.
What other content can we add? Let's take a look. In the future we might want to
add a blog to our website, or allow your customers to schedule appointments, or
set up an online store to sell products and take payments. If we had a restaurant,
we might want to sync up with OpenTable for reservations. It can all be done
through here. We are almost done. Let's take one more look before publishing.
okay this will work it's time to publish
Now our site is online and accessible to visitors. We will probably have some ideas
for adding new things later, so we can always log back in here and make any
updates. We should log into our dashboard on a regular basis so we can see
recommendations to optimize the site, such as getting your business listed on
Google, leveraging search engine optimization tools, or adding email
marketing to bring customers back. We can also review stats about our site's
performance once it's been up and running for a day or so. Hopefully this
video has shown you how easy it is to make a website. Check out our YouTube
channel and subscribe to find more videos about how you can make the most
of your business online. I'm Emily, see you next time.