Creating a website with WordPress software is easy.
WordPress is the world’s most popular software for making websites and blogs.
If you need to start your own blog, get started now with 3 of the best resources you’ll find below.
Free Resources
WordPress is regarded as the best free website/blog software and currently powering over 73 million websites and blogs.
That’s over 12% of the worlds websites.
Ready to get started?
1. Register a Domain Name
The first step to start using WordPress is to choose a great domain name for your site.
Your website domain name will be your own unique address and home on the web.
You can choose a website domain name that includes both your brand name and the overall topic/subject of your sites content.
2. Server Space
Choose a yearly hosting package.
A yearly hosting package is cheaper than monthly and you can also use hostgator coupon, wordpresssites , to get a further 25% discount.
Web hosting will enable your website files to be hosted on the internet so you can express yourself to the entire world wide web.
3. Install Software
Next step is to install the software to your domain name using the easiest and fastest method.
No need to upload any files to your hosts web server using FTP or anything too technically challenging.
All these web hosts offer a one click install of WordPress.
If you don’t use a web host that offers a simple scripts or quick install, you’ll need to install WordPress manually.
4. Add a Theme
Choose a theme.
WordPress offer thousands of free themes to choose from.
You also have the option of choosing a premium theme or template.
Premium themes and templates are the skin which fits over the top of your framework. This adds to the appearance of your website by displaying a certain look and style as well as providing different custom features.
Once you have installed your theme, it’s time to add some special features using plugins.
5. Install The Best Plugins
WordPress offers huge range of essential plugins which are tiny software programs you can easily install. Once activated, they create different custom functions for your website.
There’s over 20,000 available which is why i’ve created a list of the top 50 best plugins.
That’s all for this post.
You’ll find answers to most questions by using the Google search box in the sidebar or try some of the best support forums.
Brad Dalton
@wpsitesdotnet
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Hey, im just looking around for some inspiration for a new website design.
Just wanted to comment on the great design of your site.
Regards Dan, nice post, thanks
Thanks Dan
If you want to look at some of the best WordPress designers sites, you may find some in this list http://wpsites.net/wordpress/directory-of-professional-wordpress-web-designers-developers-theme-providers/