- What's going on? My name is Simon, and in this
video, I'm gonna show you step by step how to
create a WordPress website in just a few minutes. This is for complete beginners so there's no design skills
or coding skills involved with building this website. We're gonna use a very simple drag and drop builder to create
our professional website. So, don't worry if you've
never built a website before and you have no prior experience. All you basically have to do
is follow along with this video and at the end, you'll have
your own website up and running. So, let's get into the tutorial. (light intense music) So, the first step of building our website is getting hosting and then also our domain. Hosting is simply the place
where all of our website files will be stored and the domain
is the name of your website. Now we're gonna use hosting
or to get our hosting. It's one of the best
options out there right now because it's very fast
and at the same time, it's also very affordable. Now I also have an additional
discount you can use by using the first link down
below in the video description. You'll get an additional
discount when choosing your hosting plan, so make
sure you use that link. Then once you click on it, you'll get to this website here where we're gonna go to hosting right here at the top. And then we're gonna
click on website hosting. Then we're gonna scroll down
to the different hosting plans. Now I recommend to get
the premium web hosting. It has everything that
we need for our website and we can also get a Free Domain. So the name of your website
is gonna be included in this package right here. So we're gonna click on Adds to card. Then here, we can choose our billing cycle meaning how many months in advance we're gonna
pay for our hosting. The cheapest option is gonna
be the 48 months option. I would recommend this option if you know that you're gonna use your
website for multiple years. However, if you're not sure, if you're gonna use your
website for that long, you can also go with one
of the lower options here. If you wanna get the free domain. So the free name of your
website, you wanna go with either the 12 months, the
24, or the 48 months option. Now I'm gonna just do a
an example website here in this video. So I'm gonna go with the
12 month option for now and then we're gonna scroll down where we're gonna need to
type in our email address. Then here, we can choose
our payment option. And then before you
move on to the payment, you wanna make sure to use the coupon code which will get you an additional discount. So you wanna click on Have a coupon code and then type in METICSMEDIA right here. Click on Apply, and then
as you can see here, it will give you an additional discount. Then simply type in
your payment information and click on Submit Secure Payment. Then we're gonna set a password for our hosting account
and click on Confirm. And now we wanna wanna go straight into our hosting or dashboard. So, let's click on the hosting
or logo here at the top and this will take us into
our hosting or account. Now, as you can see here, we
can now claim our free domain. That's the next step that we're gonna do. So, let's click on Claim domain here. Then here, you wanNA choose
your domain extension. I recommend to go with a
.com domain if you can. Sometimes your name
isn't available for .com, so you can also go with a
.net for example, or a .co. But try to find your domain with a .com and then you can type in
your domain name here. I recommend to choose something
that is easy to remember that doesn't have any weird
characters or numbers. But for this video, I'm just gonna type in something random like meticsmediainfo. Let's see if this is still available. Click Check availability. All right, it's still available
and we can get our domain for free because that is
included in our hosting plan. So now, we can just click on Claim domain. To complete our domain registration. We also need to fill in
some contact information. So let's just do that here,
then click on Continue. Now to complete our domain verification, you now wanna go into your email inbox where you should get an
email that looks like this. And then you wanna click
on this link right here to verify your domain. And this will take us here where it says your email address has
been verified successfully. So, we can now close these pages here and reload the hosting or dashboard. And now here, we can see
that our domain is active and our email is verified. So, that's it for the first
step of building the website which was getting hosting and our domain. The next step is gonna
be installing WordPress. So to install WordPress, we're gonna go to hosting here on the top menu. And then where it says
Premium Web Hosting, we're gonna click on Setup. Start Now. And then here, we're simply gonna click on Skip, I don't want
personalized experience. Here, we're gonna click
on Create a new website. Now we wanna use WordPress, so we're gonna click on
Select here under WordPress. And then here, we can create
our WordPress account. So it already takes the email that we have used for Hostinger. So all you need to do is set a password then click on Continue. Then here, they ask us if
you want to already install some plug-ins to our website. For now, we're not gonna do that so we're gonna click on Skip,
I will manage plugins later. And we also don't wanna
choose a template just yet. So again, we're gonna click on Skip, I don't need a template. Here, we can now choose our domain. So you should be able to see the domain that you have chosen before,
and then click on Select here. And then here, we can also
choose our server location. So we can click on this icon here and then we can see different locations. And these locations will basically be where your website files will be stored. So what you wanna do is choose a location that is closest to where your visitors of your website are gonna be coming from. So if you have a lot of
people visiting your website from Europe, you might
want to choose a location that is close to these people,
which is here in Europe, the UK, for example, if
you have more people coming from the US, then you
might wanna choose a server that is located in the US because that will make
your website a lot faster for people located in this area. So I'm just gonna click
on Cancel here and go with the default location and
then click on Finish set-up. Then let's click on Edit Website and this will take us
directly to WordPress. So, let's click this window here and then click on the
WordPress icon on the top-left. And this should take us into
our WordPress dashboard. So, this is the place where
you'll be able to manage and control your website. And whenever you wanna come back to your WordPress dashboard,
all you have to do is just go to your URL box at the top,
type in your domain name. So this would be
meticsmediainfo.com for this example and then, hit /wp-admin which stands for WordPress admin. Then hit Enter and this will take you back to your WordPress dashboard. And whenever you wanna
see how your website currently looks like,
all you have to do is go to your domain name at the top
and then click on Visit site. And this will show you how your website currently looks like. When you wanna go back to your dashboard, all you have to do is click
on the WordPress icon here and this will take you back
to the WordPress dashboard. So this was step two of
building our website, which was installing WordPress. The next step is gonna
be installing a theme which is gonna make building
our website 10 times easier. So in your WordPress dashboard,
wanna go to Appearance here on the left-side menu
and then click on Themes. Then, let's click on Add New. And now the theme we're gonna
install is called Astra. In fact, you can already see it here but if you don't see it, you
can simply type in Astra here in the search bar, and
then it should come up. Then we're gonna click on Install here. Once it's installed, you
wanna click on Activate. And now we also wanna install a plug-in that will give us some pre-made designs to make creating our website a lot easier. So we're gonna click on Plugins here on the left-side and click on Add New. And then in the search bar, you wanna type in starter templates and then
install this plugin here. Click Install now, then Activate. And now it has automatically
opened up this plugin but if it doesn't open up for
you, you can basically go back to the dashboard, go to
Plugins, click on Plugins here then scroll down to where
it says Starter Templates. And then you wanna click on See Library and then it will take
you back to this page. Once we're here, we're gonna click on Build Your Website Now. Then for the Page Builder,
we're gonna use Elementor. So we're gonna click here and then here, finally, you can choose
your website template. This template is gonna determine
what the overall design and the overall structure
of your website is gonna be. Obviously, you can customize
everything later on but this is gonna give
you a good starting point. So I recommend to choose a
template that is already kind of designed to what kind of
website you want to build. So if you wanna build, let's
say an electrician website, you can basically type an
electrician here at the top and then you can see different types of websites that or templates that would be very good
for that type of website. So just type in something here at the top or just browse these categories here to find the best template for you. You can also click on them here and then see how they look like
when they're actually live. So, you can also interact
with the website. You can click on on buttons, you can go to different pages to see if this would be a good fit for you. Once you have decided which
template you're gonna go for, you're gonna click on
Skip and Continue here. And then here, you can
already make some changes to the design of your overall website. So, these are default colors. You should be able to
click on these colors here and then they should change here. I don't know why it doesn't
work here on my browser but you should be able to
just try out different colors and see what looks best for you. The same thing with the font
right here at the bottom. Once you have found your overall design, you wanna click on Continue. And then here, we just wanna click on Submit and Build My Website. Great. Now our website has been built. So, we can now click on View Your Website. So, this is how our website
currently looks like, exactly the same like the
template we have just chosen. We can also go to different pages on the website and see
how they look as well. So now, that was the third
step of building a website which is choosing a theme
and a custom template. The next step is gonna be
customizing your website. So now, I'm gonna show you
exactly how to customize everything on your website
to make it your own. So, let's start by editing our homepage. All we have to do is just navigate to the homepage by clicking
on Home in the top menu. And then to edit this site, we're gonna have to go into
the Elementor Page Builder. So, we're gonna go to Edit
with Elementor here at the top. Now we can edit everything
here on the website by just clicking on the elements. So, let's say we want to edit this text. We just click on it and highlight the text
that we wanna change and then we can just change
it to anything that we want. The same thing with the button. So here with the button, we just click on the button and then the
menu right here opens up and we can just change
the text right here. So, we can just say Learn More. And then as you can see,
the button changes live on our website. To make the changes actually visible on the actual website, we also have to go to this button-right or
tier at the bottom-left and click on Update. Once we click on update, these changes will actually go live and the visitors that
are visiting our website will also be able to see the changes. Now, if you wanna change any of the images here on your website, all you have to do is
just click on the image. Let's click on this one for example. And then here on the left-side,
click on Choose Image. And then you can simply drag and drop the image file in this window. And then once it's uploaded, we can simply click on Insert
Media at the bottom-right. And now we have change
the image right here. Now again, let's click on
Update to make the changes live. And then, let's see how our
website currently looks like. To do that, we're simply gonna click on this Preview Changes icon,
the I icon at the bottom left and this will open up a new tab which will show us how our
website currently looks. As you can see, the text is now changed, the button is changed
and also here the image that we have just replaced. So, that's how you change
the overall content of your website. Simply click on the element
and then make the changes. Now let's also look at
how to change the header and also the footer of your website. So to do that, we're
gonna go to Customize here on the top-left, and
then here on the header, you can see these little pen icons. So for anything that we
wanna change, we simply click on the pen icon and then we
can make the changes here. So if you wanna change
your logo, for example, just click on Change Logo
and then upload your logo. And it's exactly the same
thing for the footer. So when we scroll all the way down, we get to the footer of the
website and the same thing here. We can just click on the pen icon and then we can change everything here. And now to save the changes,
we simply click on Publish at the top-left, and then close
this by clicking on the X. And this will take us back
to the website preview. Now next, let's also look
at how to add a new page to your website. All we have to do here
is go to new at the top and then we're gonna click on Page. Then here, we can give our page a name. So, let's say this is our team page and then you wanna click
on Edit with Elementor. And now to add content to our
new page, we can either start with a template again and
simply click on this folder and then we can see different templates that we can use to build our page. Or we can also simply drag
and drop different elements onto our page. So, we can first add a heading. We simply drag it here from
the left-side into this field. And then we can just change the text here and then we can add more elements. So we can maybe add a video right here or add pictures, add paragraphs, basically, whatever you
want to have on this page. So, let's click on Publish
on the bottom-left, and then click on Preview
to see how the page that you have just created looks like. So as you can see here,
we just added a heading and then added a video. So now, how do we add this new page to this navigation menu here at the top? So to add the new page to a menu, we wanna simply go to
Customize again here at the top and then we're gonna click on Menus then go to Primary Menu,
which is the one at the top. And then here, we can
simply click on Add Items. And then here, we can
see all of our pages. This page here is the one
that we have just created before the our team page. Now all you have to do is
click on this plus icon and as we can see, now our
team page is in the top menu. Now when we click on Publish. This change is now live and we can see the Our Team page is now in the top navigation menu. So, this was How to
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