How to make a website using wordpress
Posted July 6th, 2010
The web page you have landed is on WordPress and this post will teach you how to have a website using WordPress easily.
So, let’s start making website with WordPress.
Buy a Domain:
Don’t use sub domain or free blogging services, if you are serious about your brand and website.
Buy a domain from any domain registrar i.e Godaddy, Name.com , which will be a unique identity of your website.
Normally a .com domain will cost you approx. USD 7 to 10.
Buy A Web Hosting:
After buying a domain, the next step is to buy web hosting account for your website.
There are many hosting providers out there with variable packages.
Find a cost effective solution with good features, I would suggest you to choose shopaserver.com as one of the best cPanel hosting and ecommerce hosting in web market.
Buy hosting with cPanel and fantastico which will make your tasks easier in website maintenance.
Installing WordPress Using cPanel and Fantastico:
Now is the time to install WordPress using fantastico one click installation.
In cPanel click to Fantastico–> click WordPress –> New installation –> Fill in the form –> and that’s it finish the form to complete WordPress installation.
Installing WordPress without Fantastico:
You can also install WordPress without Fantastico, let’s find out how.
1- Create a database in cPanel
2- Creat a user and assign rights of select, insert to database, and note down the information
3- Download WordPress code and place it into your home directory usually the path is /yourhomedir/public_html/ folder
4- unzip the WordPress code
5- now access this url in browser i.e http://www.yourwebsite.com/wordpress/
6- Follow the steps for installation , which will ask database name, user name and password.
7- So, you are done with WordPress installation.
Once WordPress installation is done, now you are ready to put content in WordPress by creating new posts, just like this post.
You have options to add, delete, edit posts. Also there are many plugins available for different activities, check out WordPress plugins.
Good luck in WordPress web site.
