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How To Make A Website From Scratch (Simple, Step-By-Step Tutorial)



hey what's up life masters this is
Stefan James from project life mastery
in a matter of minutes I'm literally
gonna walk you through step by step by
step the process in a screen capture
video so that you can follow along and
set up your own website now if you're
someone that's watching this that's
looking to build your own online
business then you're gonna need to set
up a website a website is something that
every entrepreneur every online business
owner needs because it's gonna be your
brand it's gonna be your presence online
you want to have a website so that
people can search in the search engines
and find your website or that you can
tell people your website so they can
learn more about you your product or
service or brand whatever it might be so
website is essential to have in building
an online business and it's actually
fairly inexpensive and it's easier to
have a website today than it's ever been
before I know when I started many years
ago you had to hire developers and yet
to learn HTML and coding and it was so
much harder and more expensive to set up
a website but now it is so cheap and so
easy that I believe everybody should
have a website and even if you're trying
to figure out you know what kind of
business you want to build online I
still recommend setting up a website
just to learn the process of it because
what you learn in this process will
benefit you when you do setup your
business you'll have that advantage and
you'll be able to move that much faster
ok so I'm gonna get started now I'm
going to switch over the camera so that
you can see my screen and I'm gonna walk
you through the steps so when it comes
to building a website you first got to
know what is the purpose of this website
and what kind of website do you want to
build and in this video I'm gonna share
with you three different options
so first let's say you're just a
chiropractor or a personal trainer and
you just need a simple website you
pretty much need a home page and a boat
page a services page maybe like a
testimonials page a contact page and
maybe just a very simple blog if that's
the case for you then a website builder
like Wix com can be a great option for
you because they're very easy to use
they have tons of templates and themes
that you can you know use to create a
simple website from very newbie
and wicks can be good for that there's
gonna be a lot of limitations by using
wicks
that's why I said you know you got to
know if you're just trying to build a
simple website Wix could help you with
that but that would be the simplest
option to get a website up and running
so for example you know this is their
pricing plan starts from as low as about
$14 a month and then of course if you
actually have a business ecommerce it
can be twenty twenty-five thirty-five
dollars a month okay so that would kind
of be like the most basic option for you
let's say on the other hand though
you're an e-commerce seller like you
want to build your own web store if
that's the case for you then I'd
recommend something more like Shopify
Shopify is great for e-commerce if you
want to sell your own physical products
let's say you're already selling on
Amazon right now but you also want to
sell on your own website
Shopify would be the best bet for that
they also have a lot of different themes
that you can pick and choose from some
of which are free others cost a bit more
money but I'd say they're the best for
e-commerce you know they have different
plans that you pay for every month as
well so you could learn more about them
but there are going to be some
limitations in terms of customisation
when it comes to Shopify you could hire
a Shopify developer that can actually
help you modify your website a little
bit more and customize it a bit but
because you're depending on a platform
similar to Wix there's a lot of
limitations that you'll have for it on
the other hand let's say you're someone
that want that's looking to build a
brand you want to do internet marketing
you want to do maybe affiliate marketing
you want to build a website you can
really optimize and customize optimize
it for like fast loading speed you want
to do search engine optimize search
engine optimization to rank it in the
search engines you want to create an
awesome blog a lot of content on it do a
lot of marketing kind of stuff with it
and not have as many limitations then
the best option for that is actually
using something called a WordPress
WordPress is free okay it's actually the
least expensive option the only things
you have to pay for is the domain name
and the hosting okay so you know you've
got to pay for the hosting on Wix Wix
and and Shopify provides the hosting for
you and they might be able to provide a
domain name for you as well
WordPress is the best option it's what I
use for my website project like master
comm it's what most of the biggest
websites out there use because you can
customize it more it can be a little bit
more technical but I'm gonna walk you
through in this video how to set up on
WordPress and everything from scratch so
that you can follow along with this if
you'd like and setup your own website
okay so it's actually a lot easier then
then what you're gonna think cuz I know
for me when I started my website years
ago when I first started learning
internet marketing and to learn coding
in HTML and is really expensive to hire
developers today it's just so much
easier and faster than it's ever been so
we have that advantage so first you're
gonna need a domain name you can use
GoDaddy comm for this domain name
typically a.com is like 10 dollars a
year usually you can get privacy for
that as well if you'd like but it's
pretty much fairly inexpensive ten bucks
a year is pretty much nothing but
GoDaddy is great you can buy many
different domains through it GoDaddy
does have a website builder as well but
it's just not that good a lot of
limitations for it and then also you're
gonna need hosting so you'll have to
link the domain name with your hosting I
recommend Bluehost com Bluehost is great
and actually when you sign up with them
they'll actually give you a free domain
name for the first year so you see that
ten dollars or so per year by using
Bluehost Bluehost
also has a one-click wordpress install
so very easy to install WordPress and
they're very inexpensive about three
dollars ninety five cents per month
that's the lowest plan of course they do
have higher plans as well so Bluehost
ikura I recommend best for beginners and
it's fairly easy to get started with
them they've got great customer support
so inside this video I'm gonna walk you
through the steps the technical details
of signing up for Bluehost
getting your domain name linking the two
together and an installing WordPress and
I'll give you a bit of a tour of how
WordPress works how you can find free
three themes for WordPress or paid ones
and also the plugins and start building
a website and a blog and all of that ok
so here on Bluehost you're gonna want to
click on get started by the way I'll
link to everything I mentioned below
this video in the description so you can
learn more but I'm going to start with
the basic plan this is
usually the minimum of what you need
with Bluehost to you can actually have
many different websites like this one it
gives you unlimited websites this one's
just for one website so we'll just start
with this basic plan I mean the signup
process is pretty self-explanatory it
will ask you to choose a domain name
when it comes to choosing a domain name
I always recommend it calm not a dotnet
da da da da da ta or Co dot u K or dot
au or dot CO or whatever it is because
you've got to think about building a
brand if you are building a brand and
you don't own the dot-com and someone
else does then it's gonna create market
confusion your followers people that are
going to know you that people that you
tell your business and your website to
they're going to get confused they're
gonna assume it's dead calm but then end
up on someone else's website so imagine
for me if my business if I didn't own
project life mastery com
imagine if someone else owned it and my
website was project like master net well
a lot of my followers would go to the
dot-com and they would think that's me
when it's not and you don't want that to
happen you want to own the dot-com and
that's gonna be a valuable asset as you
build your business if you want to sell
it if you want to scale it you
definitely want to own the dot-com and
you want to make sure that you're not
violating a trademark okay so you're
doing like a u.s. trademark search is
important because if someone else owns a
trademark for the domain name and you're
violating it they own the rights to it
you're using it without their permission
they can ask you to stop using it and
they can come after you for all the
money you've made by using that
trademark without their permission so
real quick let me show you a way of how
you would do a trademark search just go
to Google type in u.s. trademark search
I'll link to this website but it's the
u.s. trademark and patent office or
Patent and Trademark Office if you come
into the website you click on search our
trademark database you're gonna want to
trademark your brand name eventually
okay so you own it but you don't really
need to spend the money and time on that
initially once you've built up your
website you're gonna want to do it so
for example project life mastery I own
the trademark for right so this is my
brand I own the rights to it no one else
does so no one can use that name without
my permission if they did I could go
after them and sue
and I own the rights to it so making
sure whatever the brand name is you do a
trademark search first before you
register the domain name so that you can
own the rights and then also here on
GoDaddy you could type in different
domain names and kind of see what's
available some domains you know ten
bucks or whatever a year but others some
people own them but you can actually buy
them from them as well I bought domain
names from people as well just by
reaching out to them or sometimes they
have it available for sale on GoDaddy or
web sites like that okay so just make
sure you can own the dot-com long term
you're also going to want to own the
code see a net so you protect your
domain and other people can't you know
can't steal that and use it and kind of
confuse people in your in your market
okay so these are long term things you
got to think about when you're first
starting your business I know right now
it might be like why even bother with
that but long term you're gonna they're
gonna benefit from this thinking and
it's gonna save you a lot down the road
so coming back here let me just kind of
setup something just for demonstration
purposes life mastery publishing 12.com
that's or XCOM that's just a bad domain
name I wouldn't have the X to it but I'm
just doing an example for you if you
already have a domain you can link that
here with your Bluehost so I'm gonna go
to next and of course I'm gonna put in
my payment information all that so that
I can register so I'm just gonna skip
this part here real quick in this video
okay so I just signed up for Bluehost
just asked for my payment information as
for a password then it's just taking me
to this page here where it's gonna ask
me is just some basic information
because right now we're already now
setting up the WordPress so this is
information that will be set up on your
WordPress website what is the name of
your website okay so just for
demonstration purposes I'm gonna call
this life mastery publishing tagline you
don't have to have one but how to
publish online is what I'll put do you
want to blog yes
display blog posts on the home page or a
different page I'm just going to choose
the home page you can change all this
later and do you want an online store so
if you do want to have an online store
you can also do that through WordPress
kind of similar to Shopify they have
WooCommerce
for example which is something that you
could use in this case I'm gonna skip
this for now you could always add it
later if you wanted to what are the
goals put in whatever that might be I
mean you can actually skip this part if
you wanted to but this is going to help
you to identify a theme that they're
gonna recommend to you that you could
use
are you comfortable of creating websites
so here they're already suggesting
themes so these are themes that I
believe these ones are free there are
some that are paid and even ones from
different websites that you could find
but essentially what you do is you just
kind of browse around for the different
themes that might interest you I mean
they have 532 pages of this you can sort
it by different categories really this
doesn't matter that much right now you
can always change this later if you'd
like but I'm just gonna pick something
simple for now and especially when
you're first building your site - you
don't need to worry that much about the
look and the feel and the design of the
theme like at first you just got to
create something create some basic pages
create content get traffic to your
website and then you improve it as you
go a lot of people they wait for
everything to be perfect for them to
start their website and it never begins
so we don't want to fall into that trap
where you're working on it forever
number-one priority is to get traffic to
your website and then you improve it
later and otherwise you can have a
beautiful website but if no one knows
about it no one's going to it it's not
gonna matter or do anything for you so
people are gonna come your website first
and foremost for the content that you
have there there's two types of website
it's a giving website and a taking
website you want to be a website when
people come to it you have something to
give something to offer valuable content
something for free that's what's gonna
get them coming back to your website if
you're just there trying to sell
something that most people are gonna
come to your website and leave okay so
go offer domain privacy this is where if
you don't want to have your information
of your domain name publicly available
out there online with GoDaddy and all
the other platforms privacy isn't an
additional cost it's up to you I you
I usually always do this for my domain
names but when I first started I was
trying to save money I didn't do that so
I'm just gonna click I don't care right
now
turn off data mean privacy don't really
need that right now
and now they're gonna gonna give me a
checklist and this is actually kind of
new since I've last used this but
they've got a few more options and they
kind of guide you through this a little
bit more so they've got a guide that
recommended steps that you can take to
make it simple for you you know you can
see which ones you've completed but let
me just go here to launch my site I'm
just gonna launch the site for now it's
recommending to kind of complete some
things first but I'm just going to click
launch the site great thing about
Bluehost they'll automatically link your
domain name to Bluehost
versus if you have to sign up with
GoDaddy then you have to go to the
process of linking it together okay so
this is just a basic website that was
set up based on the the theme that I
picked it could tell us this very simple
right now but let me show you the back
end here of WordPress where we can
customize things a bit more so this is
kind of like the Bluehost dashboard the
back end you can view your websites the
marketplace you can set up your email
address too so like this domain life
mastery publishing XCOM if I wanted to
have the email address Stefan at life
mastery of publishing XCOM I could
easily do that right here in Bluehost
around email okay so I could set up
support at life mastery publishing XCOM
you can set all of that up here if you'd
like you can get more domain names for
other websites as well okay but let me
just kind of walk you through WordPress
this is the backend of WordPress so this
is again what the website looks like
currently okay but here's the backend
this is where I can kind of edit stuff
and customize things as much as I'd like
so a few things I'll share with you here
in WordPress here if I go to the post
section this is where I can actually
create blog post so if I come here to
those site you can see I've got one blog
post if I click on the title this is the
blog post it's just a basic sample and
here's a comment that they're just gonna
have as an example of this so if I
wanted to edit this I can come here and
see all the posts click on edit
and right now they just have this
temporary URL this will change this will
actually be life mastery publishing XCOM
slash wp-admin but this is gonna change
in the next few hours so here you can
see if I want to write a blog post
that's very simple this how to set up a
blog right and hey everyone my name is
Stefan today I'm going to share with you
how to set your blog or a website very
simple pretty easy to use right I mean
if I want to bold text I can do that I
can customize it in a lot of different
ways and there's just a lot that you can
do here but if I want to update it it's
gonna click on update and if we come
back here and let's just go back to the
home page you can see I updated the blog
post so very simple here if I had my
other blog post it will be listed here
so let me click on add new how to set up
a website this is my second blog post
publish I can schedule blog post to
there's just there's gonna be a lot of
features a wordpress that you can play
around with and browse that's one of the
benefits of course of it but it can be a
little bit overwhelming at times but
again it's gonna provide so much great
customization the sky's the limit of
what you'd want to do but here I can see
I've got two posts now and again I can
click on it to see more of the posts
okay so that's pretty much how posts
work you'd want to create a lot of
content you want to have content again
when people come to the website there's
something for them to consume something
beneficial you can embed YouTube videos
there you can add images I could add I
could add a lot of different things to
make my content a lot more engaging
here's another important session known
as pages these are basically the pages
just come back the pages like the about
page the contact page you're gonna want
to set these up for your site too so
first they have a privacy policy page
and like a sample page
privacy policy is something that is
important on websites because the search
engines look for that when indexing your
website you'll rank better when you have
a privacy policy
there's plugins you can get I'll kind of
go through that in a minute that you can
do but let's just kind of set up a page
I'm just gonna put a boat on this on
this page you can learn more about me
and my my company ok so just something
simple for now just for a demonstration
this theme you might have to set up a
menu so let me just kind of see yeah so
here at the top there's like a menu
right so this would be the about page I
can edit this menu here if I go to
appearances and menus a menu is
basically what you'd have here at the
navigation menu the top and you can also
have one in the footer and this is kind
of like a menu here as well okay so let
me just gonna show you this if I want to
create a new menu let's call it footer
and I want to add this about page to the
menu so I'm gonna click on add okay I'm
gonna click on save menu and I can I can
have it actually be displayed here in
the private primary navigation so let me
actually just call this the header then
okay let me actually create one more
page just to show you real quick
contacts contact me here and you can
actually get contact forms that I'll
show you how to do as well where they
can submit the form you know on the
website and sorry I got to come back to
the menu now let's see let me refresh
this because there should be now a
contact page yeah here we go Add to menu
and there we go save and then if i
refresh it should should maybe update
let's see
okay yeah a boat page contact page right
so this is where I could edit that so
let me now share with you if I want to
come to you know change the theme for
example I can come here on themes and
the sidebar here are themes that have
already been installed but if I want to
add a new one I'm gonna click here and
here I can see themes that are featured
that I can install just click a button
to install it I can preview it so let me
preview this one and again you can
change everything you can customize that
whenever way you like so you might have
to spend a few hours doing that but here
I could change the images I can change
the text it can change the positioning
of everything
here's popular themes okay
you know there's premium themes that I
could pay for as well so some of these
might cost a bit of money and Bluehost
actually has a marketplace that just
brought me to where I can pay for some
themes too so usually when you pay and
you get a obviously a bit better of a
theme but that's how you can change your
theme now a cool feature is the widgets
widgets allows you to kind of change
things around a bit
now she let me go first to customize you
can customize the theme a bit here to go
kind of guide you through changing the
title that's up here in the tagline if I
want to change that the colors I could
change a bit here the header image so if
I want to change
there's no header image here but if I
wanted to add one I could do so just
click on add new image background image
if I wanted to add one I could do that
widgets I can click on add a new widget
and let's say I want to add let's see
here there's more of widgets you can add
other called plugins that I'll get to
you in a bit let's say just recent posts
let's say I want to have something here
that says recent posts will display the
last five posts on my blog here you can
see I just added that here to the
sidebar so I can add these widgets to
the sidebar here if I'd like and let me
just gonna go back I'm just gonna cancel
this
so here I can kind of add more widgets
these are the ones currently available
so again recent posts I could actually
just drag there as well and do it that
way but let me now just kind of go to
its go to plugins this is a really cool
feature we can add additional plugins to
your website so here's something that
are already currently set up and
installed there's some important ones
I'll just kind of mentioned real quick
google analytics which comes with it
this will help you track all the traffic
and visitors that come to your website
you will need to set up a Google
Analytics account which is free if you
guys just go to google.com slash
analytics you can set up an account and
you'll be able to link it here you just
click on settings you know ask for like
your Google Analytics code so this one's
by monster insight so it looks like you
can just put in your lights this one you
actually might have to purchase this is
like an upsell but let me just gonna go
back to plugins and show you how I could
install Google Analytics click on add
new and these are all plugins I can
install but let's type in Google
Analytics and here you can see these are
Google Analytics plugins you can see
they have reviews how many people
actively installed it how often is
updated so this one's already actually
installed but I can install this one if
I wanted to as well I'm just gonna
install this simple one I mean the main
thing to look for for a plug-in is like
the reviews of it it's gotta have good
reviews and also how often is updated i
don't like plug-ins that haven't been
updated and like over a year because
then it can actually make your website a
little bit vulnerable which isn't good
so so here I just installed Google
Analytics I can click on settings and
here it should give me the ability to
put in my Google Analytics tracking code
so you'd get this when you set up your
Google Analytics accounts ok so again
that's free to sit up at google.com
slash analytic
otherwise I just go back here to plugins
again there's so much I can share with
you it's not gonna be that in-depth this
video but go back to add new so many
different ones that you can see here let
me just go to popular this is really the
power of WordPress is all the plugins
available so for example contact form so
this would give me the ability to have a
contact form on that contact page that I
set up on my my pages right so I can
install this easily set it up I can
customize it Yoast SEO I highly
recommend everyone needs that this will
help you SEO optimize your website your
blog for the search engines SEO stands
for search engine optimization so you'd
want to install this that's a must
this is like an anti-spam for comments
on your blog jetpack I highly recommends
I mean you can browse around all these
different things and play around with
them a sitemap definitely recommend but
you'll usually get that with Yoast SEO a
sitemap helps the search engines index
your website but I could have pop-ups on
my website I can add all these cool
features you know we're really when you
dig into it it's amazing the things that
you can add to your website you can
customize it any way you want so the
sky's the limit with WordPress and all
the different plugins that are available
you could change the logo of the website
you can change pretty much everything
but if you're looking for higher quality
themes and to really customize your
WordPress there's websites also such as
theme forest okay so the theme forest is
great you can find lots of WordPress
themes and templates so you can browse
around here and find a lot and then
there's also studiopress which I also
recommend this is actually what I use
for the project project life mastery com
website they have premium themes that
you can get they've got a really awesome
framework called Genesis and you know
you can really design some really great
high quality stuff and then also if
you're just looking to be like hands-off
you know you maybe want to set the
basics but you're looking for a designer
developer to really customize your
website
resources that I'll share with you for
that would be up work is my go-to place
for finding freelancers you can post
your job and designers developers can
bid on the job and offer how much
they'll do it for they have portfolios
it can browse through as well so up work
is great for that too highly recommend
it you can find designers to design a
logo for you as well if you'd like
otherwise you can also go to fiverr.com
fiverr.com is great to get a logo done
fairly inexpensively so I could type for
logo and find all these people here that
can do logos for me at different price
points I could browse through to see the
quality of the work right so I can see
all the logos that this guy is done
otherwise they've another great website
I do like that's a little bit more
expensive is known as 99designs this
gives you the ability to put on a
contest where all these designers they
basically design a logo for you and you
got to pick which one you like the best
and whoever wins the contest is the one
that wins the prize your money and you
get a basically get a really high
quality logo from there that's how I've
always got my logo is done is by using
99 designs and there you have it that's
how you can set up your own website I
gave you three different options again
it's based on what your goals are and
what you're trying to accomplish the one
that I recommend the most is WordPress
WordPress even though it might seem a
little bit more technical than the other
options it provides so much opportunity
to customize it the sky's the limit with
what you want to do with WordPress it's
the cheapest option out of everything
you can just do so much more with it
especially if you're trying to apply a
lot of marketing skills that you might
be learning you want to optimize it for
speed for generating leads for making
money for pretty much everything so I
use WordPress for all of my websites not
unless eyes may be doing like e-commerce
store then I'd recommend Shopify for
that Wix is again I don't really use Wix
Weebly Squarespace those are ones that
really are just for people that just
need like a quick simple website but
it's gonna really limit you if they're
trying to do marketing and trying to
really grow your business from it so
WordPress I think is the best option if
you want to check out Blue Hose
and GoDaddy and everything else click on
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