Bluehost
Creating your first website is very easy with Bluehost and Wordpress.
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Step 1: Get a Domain Name & Hosting - I recommend Bluehost
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Step 2: Log Into Wordpress
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Step 3: Install A New Theme
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Step 4: Edit Your Website
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Step 1: Get a Domain Name & Hosting
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First step click the "Get Started" button above.
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Choose Basic Plan and enter desired Domain Name (ex. Name.com)
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Make sure your desired domain name available.
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Enter your contact and billing info.
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I would choose 12 month package just getting started. Untick all the extra add ons.
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Enter your CC info Accept the terms & conditions
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From there you are ready to go.
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Step 2: Log Into Wordpress
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Bluehost will send you and email that you will have to verify.
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Create your account on BlueHost
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Log into account - Opens up the backend of Wordpress
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Once inside you will want to create a new user.
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Click User, then new from side menu. I would create two users. Your primary email, and a secondary one. Or, give a trusted family member or friend admin rights so you can always get into your account.
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Step 3: Install A New Theme
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Bluehost is going to ask you a series of questions to recommend some themes and plugins for your website.
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Themes are types of websites, Plugins are features. Don’t worry about your answers you can change everything.
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You will start off with a very basic site, but you can change that very quick.
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Click Apperance - Themes - Add New Themes
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Wordpress will give you a Wide variety of theme options
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Click Import Complete Site Plugins
Step 4: Edit Your Website
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There are a number of tutorials on youtube to show you how to edit and maintain your site. Things are pretty intuitive, based on your tech skills I would spend a few hours learning how to edit and maintain your site. Be sure to learn how to protect against hackers and saving a back up.
Sample: Resume Site
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