Building a WordPress website from scratch seems easy for me, however I have showed various students how to do this and it takes everyone at least 3 lessons to get it down pat. That’s not bad either. We are talking about creating a website, much like building a house, it can become a cyber property with true value.
When I finally woke up to WordPress I was amazed at how fast I could have a website (or blog) up and running. As you will see in the video below, I could probably get a WordPress website up in five minutes if I wasn’t doing a tutorial video at the same time. The thing is, I believe that anyone can do this and that practice makes perfect.
What do I need to start building a WordPress Website from scratch?
- Web hosting that has cpanel and fantastico so it is easy for you to install websites. I use Hostgator but there are heaps of website hosting companies that compete with each other. See some coupon codes below to get %25 off Hostgator hosting.
- You will also need to buy a domain name. There are plenty of places to buy a domain name. I use Namecheap but you can use any name reseller or if you have a spare domain name lying around you can use that. LOL Am I the only person who has 37 spare domain names lying around?
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Build a WordPress Website from Scratch
- Buy website hosting if you do not have it.
- Do keyword research and find a niche.
- Pick a domain name with your niche keywords in it.
- Point your domain name to your hosting account.
- Go to your cpanel to add on a domain. See how to add a domain in your hosting.
- Go to the fantastico icon in cpanel and press on the WordPress link.
- Install a wordpress website/blog.
The video below shows each step, even buying the domain name at Namecheap and following the steps after that.
See Part two How to install a WordPress website
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This post was written by...
mitz – who has written 197 posts on Lets Build Websites.
I am addicted to internet marketing and making money online. Who wouldn't want to live that life? I started out with one website as a hobby and now have over 20. Building websites and making money online is not that hard. You have to actually take action to make money...that is the biggest hurdle! :)
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Hi Mitz,
Really great for starters.
Thanks for the tutorial, the video, and specially for the discount coupon code.
Best regards,
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Mitz
Thanks for such great tutorials. I am in the process of building my blog/website and used the wordpress business lite theme. I want to sell some things on this site but not sure what the best process would be. Should I just use a store plug in for wordpress? Any advice would help.
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Mitz
I think I am starting to work it out…its about SEO, Google and free plug ins….other site builders do not give the integration….
Regards
Clive
Starting a blog you should consider not only the topic of the posts,but also lot’s of technical details.Thanks for your detailed instruction!It’s very helpful for a beginner!
Amazing video mitz, first time i totally understated that installing WordPress website is so easy. It not require any technical skills. It is very helpful for me because i am going to create WordPress blog as soon.Thanks for this great information.
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Hi Mitz
To drive traffic to my website I understand a blog is a good way to do this? If I use Wordpress for my website and Blogger for my blog does this drive more traffic or is it the same principle if my blog was on my website? i.e. does it need to be in separate locations?
Also, I just want a simple Wordpress website with the homepage having my logo, headers, a flash image of 4 photos and then about 5 more pages above the images and network links at the bottom of the homepage. I want to be able to add my own logo and have the homepage flash images in the centre, quite large, can you please recommend a theme in Wordpress where i can accomplish what I want? Feeling very overwhelmed.
Hope you can help
Many many thanks
Gemma
Thanks for this simple tutorial. I have been hosting my little blog on Google’s blogger site, and I’m ready to move on. So, I think wordpress would be ideal.
Thanks again for those nice discount code as well
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What plugins do you use ?
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Hi Mitz, over 20 WP Websites, WOW, that is really inspiring!
Sounds like you have been at this for a long time!
The website above is the only website I have at the moment, but I am seriously interested in creating my own websites, and when I saw your post at ComLuv Network about Joining the fun of Building your own WP websites, I was instantly excited to learn more. Just a couple of things about my interest is affiliate marketing and photography.
Jenny
I’m glad you have put this together. I’ve been wanting to get into building wordpress blogs but have really found anything that does a good job on explaining how to go about doing so.
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After using BlogEngine.net for so long, it’s hard to believe anyone would have any problems with WordPress! It’s so full of plugins and self extracting easy to use items. I recently put one in at an eye doctor’s (www.triangleeyecarenc.com/blog) and it was up and running in minutes of my decision! I really like the customizable aspects of BE and will be keeping my own blog there; however, I definitely recommend this tutorial and WP for anyone wanting to start out from scratch!
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Hi jamie
I agree that Wordpress absolutely rocks obviously!!! The funny thing is that people still think it is hard to learn and go for other easier site builders…Unfortunately these other ways of building websites are not good for SEO, traffic, community..They also do not have all the free plugins to do a lot of the work for you..They are very shallow websites. The main thing though, is that Google loves Wordpress, and that’s all there is to it..
do you know coupon for domain?
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thanks much mitz..
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I have the word press blog above. I need to turn it into a website. How do I do this?
Hi Cathy
Do you have a Wordpress that you installed on a server or the free Wordpress blog?
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Fantastic simple advice. Except I would like clarification on that keyword part.
I understand going through keywords and ticking those that have little competition and if over 5k searches its cool From there onwards I got lost do you enter all the keywords as tags within categories???
Excellent video- possibly olanning to use WordPress myself.
Thanks
I have followed all steps on the above video up until it gets to 10.08mins so i am assuming that i have pointed the names servers to my hosting and that i have installed my domain name on my web hosting. I used namecheap, hostgator, etc everything you used in the video.
Jenny how did you go? You can email me from the contact page
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I swear i am crap at this stuff! I followed your video up to 10.08 minutes. When i went to my link it came up Oops Internet Explorer couldn’t find shootyapooch.com. Any ideas Why?
What stage are you up to Jenny?
Have you pointed that name servers to your hosting?
Have you installed your domain name on your hosting?
Let me know and maybe I can help.
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Thanks for the great video. I am considering Wordpress.
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Hello dear,
Thanks for your video, it is marvelous.
Question: Can I edit the HTML of my page to ad the google tracking code?
Best regards.
Ismail Pereira
There are plenty of plugins for Wordpress in re Google Analytics. Just search for them. You don’t need to touch the HTML of your wordpress site.
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Here is a link to an article: http://wordpress-websitebuilder.com/add-google-analytics-code-to-your-wordpress-website/
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Do you have any videos on reinstalling wordpress to a site that’s already is customized with a theme?
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If you have already had Wordpress on there with a customized theme…did you crash it? Did you mess with the code, because you can simply dump a new copy of the file that you played with on your server to bring it back. Let me know if this is what you mean?
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