How To Create WordPress Website With Dreamhost - Create Your Website in Less Than 20 Minutes

if you've been trying to figure out  how you can build your own website   with wordpress and dreamhost  this is the video for you my name is joseph and this channel is all about  marketing and growing your business if you're   interested in that type of content go ahead and  hit subscribe and ring the bell for notifications   after this is complete before i start the tutorial  that's going to be completely free for you to use   a website theme builder and to get your website  launched with the exception of you do have to pay   for a domain you do have to pay for hosting i want  to talk a little bit about divi divi is what i use   to actually build and allow for more functionality  of my website now i can't talk about that   in this free tutorial because divi cost money  it's around 89 for the license and 259 dollars   for the actual program so i recommend that  you go through this tutorial here on youtube   if you're looking for more information you  check out what i have available in my course   now my course will take you from a to z on  how to set up a website and it uses divi and i   actually give you a license as part of my divi on  lifetime access so i hope that's helpful for you   you can go ahead and jump in and get  started and i look forward to your success   i'm on the dream host website i'm actually in  an incognito window because i want to make sure   that you can see the process of what it would look  like for you so in the description there's a link   to dreamhost that's who i use for my websites  who i recommend for my clients and i think it's   a great host and place to register your domain  so in order to build your website there's a few   steps we're going to do the first thing that we  have to do is make sure you have a domain name   if you don't have a domain name it's like your  address on the website or on the internet so you   can't necessarily make sure people come and see  your website so the first thing we're gonna do   is uh take you through the process of getting your  domain name and then setting up your hosting so   let's go ahead and jump directly into this so when  you click that link in the youtube description   it should bring you to the home page if it doesn't  we can go ahead and click domains right here   in the menu and we're going to use their domain  search tool so let's go ahead and do a very brief   search for a domain that you would like one thing  i recommend is you try to get the dot com if you   can't get a dot com it's okay to get a dotnet or  a dot co some businesses will even do a different   type of domain name but i recommend try to get the  dot-com if you can so i will start with the basic   search that i believe will probably be open so  i'll just take what it says there in the text your   great idea starts here i'll just do that  dot com and we'll see if that's available   if it's not available what it will do is give us  suggestions but as you can see it says huzzah your   great idea starts here dot com is available it  will also give me all of these recommendations   where i can try to see if i want to purchase one  of these or if i want to go a different way so   i might say oh wow this is even better i like the  idea of make your great ideas start here one thing   before you move to the next step i recommend you  always try to get the dot-com if you can take a   moment and just look and make sure you spelled it  correctly you don't want to have to have a domain   name and you spelled it incorrectly so after  clicking the link you'll come to dreamhost.com   you'll enter in the domain name that you want you  can review see if there's other ones that you want   to buy right now there's a sale going on so these  are a little bit lower if they are higher well it   just depends on what time of the year you're going  to purchase it one reason that i'm recommending   dream hosts is that they don't trick you they  won't add a lot of things that you don't need   one thing you'll get with your domain which i  think is very important is this free private   registration if you're using a different type  of place a lot of people will go with godaddy   or other places and they charge you for every  single thing they do dreamhost is really good   about just getting you what you need and making it  simple and giving you one price so i recommend you   go with that so the first thing we're going to  do is get your domain name after you have that   we'll go ahead and click this buy now for 6.99  and it will start taking us through the process of   what it looks like to get this domain name so the  first thing is i notice there are four steps so   there's a create your account register the domain  name additional options and then the money part   so i'm going to briefly go through this with  you so you'll see what it's like for you and i'll put in a fake email address  because i'm really not gonna buy this   let's just do joseph gmail at joseph gmail  one dot com and i'll just make a fake password   that will work all right tells me that it's  good everything is good so i will click continue   and that will take me to the next step where it  says register the domain name now once again this   is another time that you can look at the domain  name make sure it's spelled correctly it's exactly   what you want and if it is you would just go  ahead and go to the next section if you can   i would say register it for two years in most  cases if you're if this is a business and you   want it to be around for a while you probably want  to register it for two years if you're unsure and   you just like the domain name go ahead and get  it for one but for this example we'll just go   ahead and click two years which will take the  price up and you see that there's a discount   so i'll go ahead and do two years because  it's a good idea so you don't miss it   once it expires after a year but if you can't stay  with that 6.99 and totally fine now this is what   i love about dreamhost is at this point a lot of  other people will give you 20 options to decide   what you want for other options all they're  asking at this point is if you want hosting   which brings us to the second thing that you need  for a website first you need a domain the second   thing is that you actually need a place to put all  of your files all of your images how can people   connect with your content is the domain hosting so  this will be an additional price of 12 a month and   if you register for longer sometimes you can get  a discount or there you know things can change but   it allows you to have multiple websites it gives  you a free ssl certificate so that means when   someone comes to your website it would say  https which means it's a secure connection   and they're connecting to your website they know  that it's not a fake website if they're going   to give any credit card information so that's  really important and then it gives you some tools   to make it easy to install wordpress so you  will need this so we have the domain and then   for our domain we're getting hosting super  simple one option and all we have to do now   is click continue after you click continue  it's going to take you to the money part   very simple to put in your information you can  see it's just going to ask for your first name   last name your phone number i think uh what's  really important here and to notice is that even   though you're putting in this information about  your first name last name and your phone number   you're going to have something called domain  privacy so if someone tries to look up and see who   owns the domain they won't be able to tell because  it's gonna show that it's registered to dreamhost   so even though you're putting this information  there other people will not be able to see it it   will be shown as private and it will say something  to the extent of another happy hoster with   dreamhost or something like that so that's very  important your information will not be out there   if you didn't do the two years this price  will be lower for you you would go ahead   put in all your information after you put your  information in go ahead and click place order now   once you click place order now dreamhost is  going to do a lot of things behind the scenes   and it's going to get your hosting set up and then  it will send you email into your account set up   once your account's set up then we're ready to  start installing wordpress so we've done the first   two parts we're almost there okay so once you get  that email from dreamhost saying that your account   is set up the next thing that we're going to want  to do is actually log in and it will have a link   where you can log in make sure everything's set  up as you can see this is what the login screen   will look like you'll come in here type in your  email address then put in your password and click   sign in super simple once you're signed in now  we'll actually go through the process of what it   looks like to start looking at the dashboard the  first time you lock in it'll look something like   this now it's going to depend if they're launching  something new if there's a sale as you can see now   it's the summer so there's domain registrations  they've been dropped to 6.99 which is a great   thing that's happening for a lot of people that  want a website depends on what updates they're   doing so yours is going to look something like  this the main point to recognize here is that   your main primary navigation it's going  to be on this left hand side over here so   the first thing that we want to do is click on  domains and then we're going to go directly to   one click installs now here's the cool part  you've purchased your domain you've purchased   your hosting now we want to install wordpress  so you don't have to know how to do anything   but click a few buttons so once you click one one  click installs we're to click on learn more and   install once you click on learn more and install  i have tons of domains tons of websites most   of them are going to be grayed out but for this  example i created one called youtube.joseph bojang   so we're going to use that one for you it would be  whichever one that you set up so the name that you   bought the website that you bought is the option  that you would have here if you bought multiple   websites you would just have to choose that option  it's also important to note that if your website   is not where you want wordpress to be installed  it gives you an option here for some people that   they might put blog i don't recommend that for  the most for most people that are watching this   video we want wordpress to be the main website and  we'll create a blog within that so go ahead and   leave this blank you can use the deluxe install  or you can deselect this for this example we're   going to go ahead and leave it installed because i  want to show you what it looks like if you use it   but then at the end of this video i'll give you an  idea of what it could be if you just want a blog   and you plan to use i actually have a link  to a course that i created that i use divi   so if you want to use that course you would  go ahead and deselect this information but   if you've signed up with dreamhost go ahead and  leave it checked and we can always uninstall this   information but for now we'll just go ahead and  click install it for me now it's better to delete   it later than to not do it and try to figure out  how to add it so as you can see it didn't take   hardly any time but right now it's showing me  that wordpress is setting up a website for me   for the domain that i selected it's going to take  about 10 minutes so at this point you can go take   a quick coffee break or you can grab some tea  and then come back and then we'll be ready but   the biggest thing that you need to know for the  next step you will have to wait for that email   that email will come and it's going to  give you all the information for how to log   into your website and how to make  sure that you can start installing   so i have an example of what that email will  look like and i'll show you that right now   so this is what the email will look like what  you'll do is you'll click this first link   it'll let you set up your password for the first  time anytime you need to come back to your website   you could use this to log on but i'll show  you a different way to do it but this is what   you're going to get in that email it'll say dream  host installer robot so once you get this you're   ready to move on to the next step okay so you've  received the email you've clicked on the link to   reset your password and now what it does is it's  going to bring you to a page that looks like this   where you'll have your username you may have  already set up your password but to access this   page what you're going to do is always go to your  website so in this example i would type in the   website that i set up i would put forward slash  wp admin and that's how you can log into your   website in the future to make any updates that  you ever need to make the first time that we try   to log in because we selected to use the premium  content it's going to bring us to a page like this   there's going to be three main steps that we're  going to use the first one is to choose our   theme then we're going to choose page options  and enter any information that we want to add   so we'll go ahead and get started and that's going  to take us to choosing the theme that we want   we have so many different types of options  we could go by default general consulting   marketing for this example i'll go ahead and  select consulting and then we'll go with this   theme right here called swifty once i click select  it will then take us to the content that we want   to install i can do five page right now you see  i have a home page our services and contact us   which might be enough for you and you could just  click install what we'll do is we'll click on blog   because we also want a blog page for our website  so that we can let people know what's happening   with our business and important information you'll  also notice that we'll have these options here   well where your website will be mobile responsive  it will be fit for any type of ipad or tablet and   then you will also have a mobile device so if i  click on mobile device here it shows me what this   page would look like which is awesome we're not  going to do too much with it here but i wanted to   let you know this is a mobile responsive website  which is extremely important to google so now that   we have those things um squared away we went base  we added blog and then we're going to click next   once we're here we can go ahead  and update the website so youtube   website test and i'm going to not display  my email my phone number my address i will   go ahead and leave my facebook and social media  profiles there and i'll click finish and install   so it's going to take a moment but it's  going to install all of these things   so that we can actually get started with our  website and then you can just sit back relax   know that you've launched your brand  your business your blog into the world   okay once everything is actually installed and  it's ready to go this is where you will land on   a page like this if for any reason your website  times out or you're not able to get to this   you can actually go log back into your website by  going to your website name dot com doing forward   slash wp admin and if you click that you log back  into your website it'll take you to this page   so now that you're logged in there's a few things  that we could start doing let's just say the first   thing that we want to do is actually we can hover  over the name of your website and click visit site   and it will show you that you actually have  a website set up this website is going to   be the name that we selected whenever we  were going through the bold grid install   and we have a fully functional website now there's  some things you're going to want to go ahead and   make sure that they're updated but if this is the  theme that you like then we're going to go ahead   and just change the text maybe even change  some images you can make sure your contact   information is correct but you see that you have  a fully functioning website so we will go ahead   and go back to the dashboard i can do that by  hovering over here and going to the dashboard and   how we're going to navigate this and i'm only  going to show you some really quick tips to   actually move around for this first part of  this video but you can always check out my   other videos to know how to do more in-depth  things now we will come to the place where   we just want to edit some of the pages if you're  ever looking to add a new page you can come here   and do that but for now we're going to click  on customize and one we're on customize so now   that i've clicked customize it's going to show  me a way that i can edit my site there's a few   things that i can do and i'll show you some of  the things that we can edit you'll see here that   in some areas we have these little widgets and  text items so let's say i want to edit this part   i can click on that and it says this section  is part of the individual page of your site   so as you can see i can't edit this because i  would have to go to that specific page but there   is content here that i could edit so if i want  to change the title or the name of my website   i could just click that little pencil and we can  see here we can say youtube let's just change the   way we spell it youtube website so now i can put  in a tagline this is to teach you something good   so i can add these types of things i could change  the font i could change the position i could add   shadows i could add a logo there's a lot of things  that i could do here but you'll see that there are   some things that you can change based off of it  being this page or i have to go to that individual   page but for now if you wanted to change some of  these simple things like the footer that will be   shown on every page you can change that here by  customizing it you can change your background your   fonts and all those things so to see anything  that you change happen just click publish   once it's published now the website will show that  not just here but that's what people viewing your   website would look but let's say you did want to  change this or you wanted to change this option   right here what we can do there's a few ways that  we can do it but i'll show you one of the ways   to just go into a particular page and how you can  change something so let's actually just click here   on our services and let's say i want to click and  change here or i want to go to the actual page i   could click here go there now and what it's going  to do is take me to that spot in wordpress where   i can make those changes let's go ahead and skip  setup and then now as you can see everything that   was on that page i can change here so if i want to  change request a consultation today i could just   get rid of today and do request a consultation  with an exclamation mark and if i make any changes   here all i have to do is click this update button  here and all my content will be updated and if i   go to that page it says page updated i can click  on this view a new page and it'll show me that   update that i made so now your website's up what  you have to do is go through start updating the   pages start updating the images but you're set  and you can start sharing this with everyone you   have a simple website as you can see maybe that  process took you 45 minutes while you're waiting   for emails you're waiting for wordpress to be set  up you're thinking of your domain name but it's a   very simple process to get this done so this is  a an easy way with using dreamhost to do this   now let me show you a different way if for  whatever reason you didn't want to use bold grid   which is free when you sign up through dreamhost  but you want to use a different process let's say   that you're just setting up a blog if you're just  setting up a blog whenever you set up your website   i asked you to not use those two premium  options so this is what you would do you would still do everything exactly the same  way you would set up your website you would   log in but this is what it would look like for  you as soon as you went to your dashboard you   wouldn't have that area that said inspirations  it's going to look a little bit different but   what you could do is come down here to where  it says appearances you can click on themes   and you're going to be able to either add new  themes or go with one of the wordpress themes   now in my course i use a theme called divi i think  divi is fantastic it actually cost a little bit of   money if you're using my course you get the divi  as a part of the course so um there's a lot of   things that i can show you how to use it but if  you're just looking to set up a blog you could   go through one of these blogs or you could click  add new and you could search for a blog a type of   blog post that you like but once you do that you  could select the one that you have we're going to   go ahead and go with what we already have but  this is how you would add a new one so let me   take you through that process let's say that  i want it to install all i do is click install   after it installs i'm going to have the option to  activate it when you activate it that means you're   making it your actual website but if i don't do  it it will just show us all of the themes that   we have available so right now this is the one  that's active but i can make this one active i   can make this one active or i can make this one  active i can add as many things as i would like   and i can make the one active that i want to use  but if it's just a blog we'll just go ahead and go   with the default wordpress one and i'll show you  how you can add a new blog post to your website   so that you can so that you can then start making  sure that your website is getting that information   out so now that we know that this is the theme and  if you want to look at your website you can always   go here hover click visit site and it's going  to show us what our website would look like   right now we don't really have many blog posts  but we can go ahead and go back to the dashboard   and add a new post or we can come here and  click on new host once we click on new post   we can add a title this is my hello world then  i could come here i could put in all my text   that i wanted to add i could add a new image if  i had one i could add heading this is so cool so   i won't go over all the editing that you can do  but pretty much you can come in here add your   first blog blog post click publish once you click  publish now this is going to be something that's   going to be on the front of your website and i can  click this post right here to view once i view the   post this is my post this is the title this is my  hello world tells me who posted it when i posted   it if there's any comments my text this is my  heading that i put in but this would be the basics   of course you can change the design but i wanted  to show you how easy it could be so hopefully   this was helpful for you to set up your website to  set up your blog post if you were looking for more   information to get your website started and a step  by step i recommend you click the button below   and take my wordpress divi course it's going to  take you through some of these processes that   we just did but more in depth how to pick your  domain name what to do after you install some   themes some pages i think that you need and then  some considerations for seo but if you don't need   that i said go ahead and get started with what  i have here and then you can look at my future   videos that will primarily leverage divi and show  you how to add blog posts and how to do some seo   and things of that sort so i hope this was  helpful for you and i'll see you next time

Channel: Joseph Bojang

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Length: 24min 13sec (1453 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 10 2020