1. Basics/Intro
We decided to write this article about Wordpress because we
could not find anywhere on web kind of short tutorial or clear instructions how
to create Wordpress site from beginning, at least not on same place. As you can
find on our blog, WP is free CMS
(Content Management System) which basic purpose is creating blogs, but with
Wordpress you can create website, also.
When we started our first website (long time ago!) built
with WP, it took a lot of time and effort to gather and implement all necessary
information needed for installation and setup of basic settings. Of course,
even today we find new useful information that can be used during the webpage
building or upgrading so this WP area is kind of constant learning and
information gathering.
Basic installation of Wordpress is not too complicated, but
once you create page using Wordpress you always have some work to do on it with
some adjustments, new ideas or software updates. Before Wordpress is being
installed, you need basic conditions to be fulfilled (Internet domain and
hosting provided). You need these conditions whether you use WP or some other
CMS!
2. Domain
In order to create your webpage or blog you need domain, for
sure. If you already have domain, you probably decided which section will your
website cover and be about. If you want to buy a new domain it is always
recommendable to use .com, .net, .org domains in that exact order. So it is highly recommendable
that you use .com domain according to many forums and respectable blogs,
because Google will be more friendly to your website. Nevertheless, the most
important thing is how you popularize your website and have a lot of visitors,
whatever your domain is called.
To conclude, in order to buy a domain you need to go to one
of domain registers online and buy it. For example visit Go Daddy or Name.
3. Hosting
This step is also very important step when creating any
webpage - to select good hosting service depending on what traffic you expect
and what content will website offer. If you are not sure what level will your
website reach you can always transfer it to another server. Transfer procedure
is very simple and it includes backup of MySQL database and all databases on
your hosting, so it can be easily transferred to different hosting. About
hosting - if you create a new page best option is to start with shared hosting.
That means you share resources of your hosting with other pages on that same
hosting. On the other hand, if you plan serious website with a lot of traffic
through it, you should acquire personal hosting and all of your data and pages
will be located on server with unique IP address. Roughly, it costs at least
80$ per month in case you can maintain server by yourself or price can be
doubled if you need web administrator to run maintance on your, dedicated
server.
You can choose between a lot of companies that offer shared
hosting services, for example Go Daddy
or Hostgator. We do not advertize these
companies, just mentioning some that provide hosting services. You can find any
company you want, match their prices and choose adequate one. You can even go
and find free hosting for your website (for example 000webhost) but this is not an option if
you are interested in creating relevant website.
Most important thing about hosting is that you do not select
cheapest hosting necessarily. First explore (use Google) service you want
acquire and then choose right one. Search forums and blogs about this topics,
read user reviews before you do anything that could have serious consequences
for your website.
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