How To Make Websites

WordPress is a very popular blog and CMS software used by millions of people all over the world. One of the best features of WordPress is the ease of changing themes. WooThemes takes this one step further by providing beautiful, functional themes complete with elegant administration. All the themes from Woo are built on a [...]

WordPress is a publishing platform for the web. It allows you to quickly and easily publish information via a secure administration area that sits behind your website. You can easily add new pages to your website, news articles (blog posts), links to other sites, images, documents and video. The version of WordPress that we recommend [...]

When you register a domain name, you need to assign your domain name to a domain name server (DNS). The DNS notifies all the Internet Service Providers across the web, where you domain is being hosted. Your website hosting provider should be able to tell you what your DNS settings should be. They will look [...]

What is website hosting? Your website need to live on a computer somewhere so that people from all over the world can access it 24/7. Hosting services provide you with space on a computer, otherwise know as a web server, in a highly equipped data center. Hosting providers look after all the technical hardware maintenance and support [...]

If you’ve had a browse through the how to make a website guide and decided that your time would be better spent elsewhere, then you might want to consider employing a web development agency to make your website for you. While most agencies charge an arm and a leg, I can recommend a service that will [...]

Building a website is only half the story, getting visitors to your website is the next important step after you’ve built your site. Search Engine Optimisation, or SEO, will help get your website ranking towards the top of Google for certain search terms. The higher you rank, the more traffic your website will receive. The [...]

Allrighty! Now we get to the fun part! In this section I’ll show you how to install the engine that’s going to drive your website. WordPress is a free piece of software that provides an easy to use publishing platform for your website. It will let you add content, images, video and audio to your [...]

This short lesson will show you how to login to your WordPress admin area. This is where you’ll be able to customise your WordPress website installation, add and update content and pages.

A quick word on logos and branding. If you don’t already have a logo for your business, then here’s how you can get a professionally designed logo for under $100.

It’s time to make your website look beautiful. This lesson will show you how to choose and install a WordPress theme. WordPress themes let you easily change the look and style of your website. Take your time choosing a theme. There are literally 1000′s of WordPress themes to choose from, some good, some bad and [...]

This lesson will show you how to add some essential plugins to WordPress to make it sing. Plugins are small add on programs that expand the functionality of WordPress and there’s a couple that I always use to add some handy functionality. It’s really very simple so don’t be scared – dive in!

We’ve added plugins, now we’re going to make a few changes to your WordPress installation to ensure maximum performance. WordPress is great right out of the box, but these tweaks will supercharge your WordPress website.

When I used to build websites for clients (not too long ago), the most challenging aspect of every project was getting the client to produce content. Even if you hire a copy writer, you still need to give them some copy to start with. For the non-writer, writing content for a website can seem like [...]

Before we go building all our pages for our website, I’m going to show you the basic page editing functionality in WordPress. WordPress makes editing website content easy and allows you to insert images, add links, format your text and even upload documents. If you can use a word processor such as Word (which you [...]

In this lesson, I’ll show you how to add more pages to your website. Remember Step 9: Writing Content? We’re going to be using that copy to populate your pages with content. The typical structure for most small business websites is as follows: Home About Products/Services (choose one or the other depending on the style [...]