How to create your first website or start a blog— with WordPress
A website is paramount for promotions of your business digitally. There are multiple tools available to create and launch a website. I am going to explain how to create your first business website with one such tool — WordPress.
WordPress being a popular CMS is the most sought after for creating websites. WordPress offers 2 types of options viz., hosted option and self-hosted.
I am going to explain about launching a self-hosted WordPress website.
5 main processes are involved in creating a WP (will use WP interchangeably for WordPress) website
- Domain Name Purchase
- Hosting Server Purchase
- WordPress Installation
- WordPress Theme Installation
- WordPress Plugins Installation
1. Domain Name Purchase
A domain name is a name in which you would like to launch the website eg: mybusiness.com. As it is subject to availability you should check the availability of domain names that you want on websites like Godaddy, Namecheap, etc. to purchase them.
