How To Make Websites

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 [...]

Our website’s coming together but it’s looking a little, well … nude. In this lesson I’m going to show you how to add some content to the sidebar (in this case right hand column) of our website. I’ll show you how to use WordPress’ widgets to easily populate your sidebar area with content. Widgets are [...]

The home page, the most important part of your website, we’re going to make this our news area, otherwise known as a blog. This is where you can keep your customers and website visitors informed about the latest and greatest things happening in your business/world. Adding regular blog items is also a good way to [...]

Although you can see your website – and anyone who knows your domain name can see your websites, we need to make sure search engines such as Google can see it (otherwise know as “index your site”. Back in Step 8 we made our website private by changing WordPress’ privacy settings, so we could take [...]