WordPress for Beginners - Step by Step Website Guide, Simple!

www.wphow2s.com/ for more In this easy to understand WordPress for beginners video tutorial, you'll learn step-by-step, start-to-finish, how to make your own website. I am going to show you how to easily get a website online - in just a couple hours you can start from scratch and have your very own website up and running. WordPress is what we'll be using to build our website. WordPress is easy to use, and it takes care of the coding for you, so you don't have to know any HTML, CSS, and all that complicated looking stuff. So absolute beginners, fear not, if you just follow the steps I will show you in this video guide, you will be on your way to having a great looking, and very useful website that you can use for your business, or personal use, or whatever you want. The first thing we'll do is pick out a domain name, and I'll give some tips on doing that, and I'll also show you how to instantly find out if your desired domain name is available. Then we'll buy our domain and web hosting, and I will show you the web hosting company that I've been using for over 7 years for all my sites, and how to get a nice discount too! After that, all is that will be left to do is to start creating your website. ****************************************­****** HostGator Discount Coupon Codes: ***HostGator Promo Code 30% Off -- MIKEsave30 ***Paying monthly?--First month for 1 Cent ($0.01) -- MIKEsave10 (**HostGator recently contacted me so that I can now offer you a 30% discount coupon code!) I've used HostGator for all my web hosting for going on 7 years, so when I recommend them, I speak from my own positive experience! I do receive a commission from HostGator if you do use one of my coupon codes, but you won't be charged extra for this...if you do use one of my discount codes, thank you! :) ****************************************­****** Time Stamps - click on a link to go to the desired section 00:00 Intro 00:22 Overview 02:26 Website preview 05:47 Domain name tips 08:08 Check domain availability 08:36 Get domain & web hosting 13:01 HostGator info - email 13:49 cPanel login 14:20 Installing WordPress 16:17 WP dashboard 17:22 WordPress themes 18:21 Initial settings 20:38 Adding default pages 22:32 Setting Home & Blog pages 23:32 Removing comments 24:47 Custom menu 29:49 Permalinks - search engine friendly page links 31:41 Configuring the Home page 33:17 WP visual editor 37:19 Finding royalty free images 38:45 Adding & editing images 40:35 Making & adding a header 49:07 Using ColorZilla to match colors 50:29 Adding background images 54:13 Front page widgets 58:14 Icons 1:04:24 About me page 1:06:15 WP image editor 1:09:49 Sidebar widgets 1:12:59 Photo gallery 1:16:58 Embedding videos 1:19:55 Making a blog 1:22:22 Featured images 1:24:43 Sticky post 1:25:31 Contact form 1:30:08 AutoResponder function 1:30:55 Inserting a Google map 1:32:33 WP Better Security plugin ***************************************************************************************** youtube.com/watch?v=EGLqGOneeMk

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