(00:04): Hello. Hello. Hello. This is Jeff Gilden, and I’m here to teach you how to make a website. It’s going to be a very simple process. Usually, if you make a website, it’s really complicated. You have domains. You have hosts. You have DNS. You have tons of settings. And today, I’m going to make it very, very simple. By the end of this video, you’ll be able to have a website up and live. All I want you to do, pull this video, shrink it, put it somewhere to the side of a web browser, and literally follow along with me as we create a website together, right now. So the first thing that I want you to do is click the link below this video. What that does, that’ll take you to Bluehost. I’m going to give you the best price possible. Currently it’s 3.95 a month. (00:54) Obviously, there’s an asterisk here. If you buy, I think three years. But what you’ll do is you’ll click the link below this video, then you’ll click get started now. You’re only going to need the lowest plan because you’re only planning to build one website. Or if you plan to build more, you can go with the second package. Plus is going to be enough for pretty much anybody. It’s unlimited everything. So that’s good there. The normal mom and pop, small person, writer, bakery, plumber, whoever, this starter package is going to be enough for you. So click on that. And for the purposes of this video, I’m going to use websitesetupdemo.com. You’ll put your new domain in here. So whatever you want your website to be named, you’ll put it in there. If it’s going to be mybakerydowntown.com, joescrabshack.com, whatever it’s going to be, you’ll put that right in here. Click on next. And now it’ll ask you for all your information. (02:02) And luckily, I have some information saved in here. Hopefully, I can blur that out later. What you’re going to do is come down here to package information. You see the 36-month price is 3.95. 12-month price is 5.95 a month. So you’ll click on that. You can uncheck all these. You don’t need that. That’s all fluff. And hopefully, I can blur out this part as well. So I’m going to pause this video real quick while I type this in to make sure I can blur that out. (02:38) Okay. So after you’ve typed in your credit card information, you simply make sure this is checked and hit next. What that’s going to do is that it’s going to set up your entire website process all at once. You don’t have to worry about domains, you don’t need upgrades, da da da da da. No upgrades. So we’re going to hit complete. Congratulations. This has been set up now. Choose a password for your account. So it gives you some information down here. We just click create password. I confirmed that I’ve read. I’m going to type a new password in here. Let’s just make a random one. Let’s see. This should be good. All right. Or you could use the password generator if you don’t meet all the qualifications of what they’re trying. They may need an uppercase, lowercase, all that good stuff. So password generator works every time. Click create. All right. (03:57) And then you will websitesetupdemo.com, and you’re going to type in your password, submit. Now, this will log you into your hosting account here. You don’t have to upgrade or do anything. All right. So now it’s going to maybe give you some help. You can call, blah, blah, blah. Just hit close. All right. So now you’re in your back end. And what you’re going to do is you’re click on this button called cPanel. CPanel is going to log you in to another area. That’s the control panel for your website because so the one thing you want to pay attention to is this website builder section right here. There’s also an email section where you can create email accounts for your domains, connect with Google apps. All that sort of stuff’s great. For the purpose of this video, we’re going to install WordPress with one-click install. (05:04) So there are some paid options here. They’ll help you set up certain aspects of the site, but it’s free. So let’s go ahead and do that right now. You click on install, then we’re going to click on check domain. It’s going to check our domain, make sure there’s not any install set up. All right. So then it’s going to ask you… There’s some advanced options. Set the site name. So let’s say website setup demo. All right. And then we’re going to change this to whatever, info@websitesetdemo.com. And you can leave a password or you can change it to whatever you would like to change it to. I’m going to change it to… Let’s see. Whoops. All right. So I got that. We’ll blur that out as well. Let me see here. Write it down so I have it somewhere. (06:09) All right. So after you get this set up, those few options, you’re going to click, I have read the terms and conditions. You’re going to click install now. And what that’s going to do is that’s going to install it on the root of your domain. I’m going to take a few minutes here to install this. I’ll pause the video while that’s doing that. All right. So after the website is done installing WordPress, you simply click on view credentials at the top, it’s going to have a user notification. It’s going to say your WordPress is finished. Click on view. It’s going to have all your information right here until you access your new WordPress website. Now, all the stuff that I’m passing by, the $49 here, $49 there, those are all premium WordPress themes. Feel free to look through these and find a really good-looking theme for your website. I’m just going to show you how to use some free themes to get your site up and going. (07:11) So here’s the admin URL. We’re going to click on that. Actually, let me copy and paste this username. All right. And that’s going to take us to the login page for WordPress. So your website is literally already set up. So we’re going to log in here, and I’m going to show you the back end. So once we log in, we’ll see the WordPress dashboard. Now, what I like to do is I like to keep the dashboard open and also a front end. Now, you can set up Jetpack if you want to. I’m actually going to deny this and not… I’m just going to skip this step. Jetpack is a plugin that has a lot of really useful stuff, but for the purposes of getting a website up, you don’t need it. So I’m actually going to go to plugins and deactivate that. So it’ll take all the notifications and everything off. I’m also going to deactivate Akismet, which is a spam plugin, and I’m just going to leave those for now. (08:26) All right. So you can come here, scroll over your name, and I’m just going to open it in a new tab. So right now, as it sits, this is my website. Here is a sample post. So we are actually up and live on the domain that we chose. So all right, so we’ve gotten over that hump. So now let’s go and install a theme. Let’s go back to the dashboard. And we’re going to click on appearance, and we’re going to go to themes. And we’re just going to look through this real quick. For the sake of this demonstration, I’m going to use a very simple theme, 2013. It’s responsive, which means it’ll adapt to all screen sizes. And so once you have this activated, just click customize, and that will take you to a section where you can customize how it looks. If you want to change the site title and tagline, just start changing that, and you’ll see it update on the website. So I’m just going to put my tagline area just to show you where that is. (09:39) You could also uncheck this box if you have created a custom banner to show off your design work. So if you click on header image, if you design a banner to go up top, you can have that already designed in Photoshop or Illustrator or however you want to design that. For this purpose, I’m going to go back to one of the defaults, and we’re going to display the header text just to get a website up. Your menu section’s going to be across here. Got a search bar here, recent post, custom side widget. Let me show you what widgets are. They’re these little, handy dandy things you can stick anywhere. So let’s say this custom widget, we didn’t like that. So we’re going to remove that and make the footer look a little bit cleaner there. (10:31) The secondary widget area is over here in the sidebar. So you’ve got custom side widget, recent post. And so those are okay for now. So let’s click save and publish. We’re going to click back, and we’re going to click the X. And you can do a little more customization. Other themes, some advanced themes may have a theme option panel that you can use, and it has a ton more settings that you can get into as you customize and craft your site. There’s also premium themes, websites that you can get a premium theme from and install that. It’s a little bit advanced. But to just get a website up, the WordPress repository, just by going to themes, add new, and then searching for a theme is going to be quite enough for most people, just to get something up and going. And then obviously, as you get your business going, or if you decide later you want a custom design, you can do that as well. (11:31) All right. So let’s go take a look at the front end of our website right now. All right. So that’s it. I mean, we’ve got a simple, basic website up and going. You can obviously play with the different title areas, choose a different theme. If you’re daring, you can choose something that looks really good. I mean, if you can see this theme, it’s laid out fairly well here. It’s got a lot of options on this theme. You may want to start small and work your way up as you become familiar with the WordPress. On this homepage, under your post, you’re going to be listed here. So let me just show you how that works. Click on posts. We’re going to click on add new, and I’ll just show you a second post, what that’s going to look like. And I’m just going to do this, and maybe we want to add a picture here, and we’re going to click on the earth again. We don’t want it to link anywhere. And then we want it to be medium, so it’s small. (12:42) Now, alignment, I’m going to choose right, and that’s going to allow the text to wrap around to the left. All right. So that’s going to work that way. And tags, you can do whatever you want to for the tags. It’s just a way to literally give this a little bit more relevancy to what you’re talking about. So Earth obviously would’ve defined what’s in the post there. We hit publish. And then on the homepage, you’ll see my second post here. So that is just a very, very simple, easy, quick, get your website up with Bluehost. Takes care of all the work. You literally just tell it what domain name you want. You hit go, put in your information, and you’re done. You start immediately with the one-click install for WordPress, immediately start crafting your website. (13:42) It’s a really simple process. Bluehost makes it so easy. So take advantage of that and get your website up today. It’s going to be real simple. All you got to do is come through here and craft all these areas that are set up with a theme in the WordPress repository, and you can have a really good-looking website. Just spent a little bit more time than what we spent right here. Put some effort into it and you’ll do great. It’s going to be real simple. Get out there and get your website rolling, and thanks for watching.