If one wants to expand his/her business then website play an important role in it as through website is a platform where we easily connect with the targeted audience. So don’t miss this article out and see it until the end to learn how to do it. Okay!
So let’s start making the website!
So before we start, you need to first think about the name of your website which is essential because people from that name will know you. Now we’re going to do this in just steps!
Now I have picked a name which is”quicktechy.com” just as an example. So I am going to search for it and then check its availability.
Once you get the name you can go to the next step which is to get Hosting & domain. Hosting & Domain are the two things we need for launching our website. Hosting is the place where your website’s files will be stored and Domain is the name of your website.
So to get hosting & domain, let’s scroll down on your screen and click ‘get hosting’. This will take you to godadddy.com where we’re going to buy the hosting. So let’s click ‘get started’. Now enter the same name which you chose earlier. So I’m going to enter quicktechy.com. and then click search
. Now click “select”& “continue”.
Okay ! So this is our cart. Now you can see that we’re getting the domain for rupees. You can see that we’re getting the domain for free. So now let’s proceed to checkout. Now Go daddy will ask you “login”.So let’s click “create account” and fill in these details. Now enter any digit number for the pin And click “Create Account” and then continue filling these details. Now choose your payment option and click continue. Okay! Sothe guy’s this is going to cost us around rupees per month and the plan will be valid for the year. So let’s place the order and make the payment. So now we’ve completed with payment & we have got our Domain & Hosting. Now let’s go to step which is to Install WordPress.
Steps to install WordPress
Now we’re going to use wordpress because it makes it very easy to build a website without knowing any programming or coding. So let’s install wordpress . We’re going to scroll down & then click managed wordpress. Now just select your domain and click next. Then again click next. You need to enter a username & password for wordpress. You will need this to login into wordpress. Okay! So wordpress is installed! Now let’s click ‘get started’. Okay so our WordPress Dashboard is created !Now from here you’ll be able to control your website. Now if you want to accessnthe (wordpress) dashboard any time again ,you just simply go to your website address and type \login. So once you reach your wordpress dashboard , this means your website is LIVE. So to check that, let’s go to our website address and press enter. Now as you can see, our website is LIVE.
If one want to edit the website, install new theme either from ‘theme’ forest or from ‘google’. From there you can search new themes , then click on themes. Now click ‘add new‘ and searchfor your niche theme. So we’re going to install the theme. Just click install and click activate. So the theme is activated. Next, we’re going to install a plugin which comes with this theme.
How to install A Plugin
So by installing the plugin , we’ll be able to easily customise our theme. So to install that plugin. Let’s go to plugins. And then click ‘add new’. Now search for a Plugin called All in one SEO, Smush and many other and then install plugin. So click to ‘install’
and then click ‘activate‘.So the plugin is now installed! Now after adding plugin,you will see the difference in your website as it looks more attractive after using plugin . Now before you choose a design, just click ‘elementor’. This will make it easier for you to edit the design. So click elementorand now you can choose any design you like. So I’m going to choose a design and you can see how the site look likeon your screen. If you want to apply this design to your site. Just click install plugins.and then click import this site. Now the design and the demo content will be imported into your site. Once its done, We can now see the site. So let’s click “view site” So as you can see the demo has been imported into our website . And you can also see thes other pages which also has the demo content. So Once you’ve got the design into your site. You can now go to the final step which is to Edit the content.
How to edit the content of pages??
So To edit any page of your site, you just have go into the page and click edit with elementor. Let’s say you want to edit the homepage , you just simply click ‘home‘ and then click “edit with elementor”. And now you will go into the editing section. So let’s say you want to change the text ,you just select the ‘text’ and then start typing anything you want. So I’m going to type
(Hi! Welcome to my website)
and now if you want to change the text on the button. You can edit any text you want on the page just select the text and then start typing.So this works throughout the website. Now if you want to change any image, you just click it, select the image and drag & drop your image. So once you’re done with thechanges you can simply save the page by clicking “save” and all your changes will be saved. Now you can view the page by clicking and then click view page. Now you know how you can edit any page of your site! Next we’re going to see
How you can change the Header or the footer area of your website??
Now by using elementor, you will able to change this part of your wesite. But if you want to change the area which is the header , you can do it by going into the customize option. So let’s go to customize it.
Now you can see that there are some “Blue icons”.Now if you want to change this logo, just click “Blue Icon” and you can change the Logo here.
Now the same way you can change the ‘Menu’section by clicking these icons. So everything can be edited by using these blue icons and this will be same in footer area also. So let’s say if you want to change the text. You just click the blue icon and start typing anything you want. Once you are done with the changes just click “publish” and they will be published on the site. Now lets’ close it and go back to our site. We saw how to edit the header & footer area.
Now, what if you want to add a new page??
It’s very simple. All you need to do is you need to go into this new and click page. Now let’s say you want to create a service page for your website , you need to first enter a title and now to start creating a page just click edit with “Elementor”. So now it will take you to the blank section and now you have two options to create your page. First, you can either use these elements and then drag and drop them into this area. For example, if you want to add a heading, you can drag and drop this element here and then enter your text. To add an image, you can drag & drop this element. So drag & drop here and start creating your page!
Now the other way to create a page is by using templates. Now templates are readymade pages which you can import into your site. So let’s click “add template” and you will find a lot of designs. Now if you want to use any designs, simply click it. If you like it just click insert to get it into your page. And now you can see that we’ve got the design into our page. Now again like we did before you can change anything on this page just by selecting it and typing anything you want. This is how it works. Once you are done with the changes, click save and view page.
That’s it guys!
This how you can add new pages to your site. So now you know how you can launch your site
by getting domain & hosting, import the demo content and then edit it to make your own website. So if you’re ready to start making you own website , Just click . It will take you to the page which we say in the first step which was choosing your domain. So just pick a domain and build your website.
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