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Hi john from john lockyear.com here helping you to get more leads get more clients, and
to grow your business or idea. And in this video I want to show you how to build a website
in under 30 minutes.
OK, so in this really short video I'm going to show you how to build a website but not
just any website but if you were to go to a web developer it would probably cost you
the best part of about 3000 pounds, and that's depending on what web developer you went to.
So let me show you right now how to build a website.
Right, Ok so we want to show you how to build a website that is fully functional. and normally
if you were to go to a web developer, to get a website built of this standard would probably
cost you the best part of between 1500 - 3000 pounds, and that's dependent on the web developer
you go to. And i want to show you how to do that free of charge right now. And this is
the sort of website ultimately we would be looking to build. So we want your logo at
the top there, we want a nice clean menu bar. And you can choose all of the colours you
want, that are more suitable for your business. we got these cool images here that are scrolling
across, we also got something on there which is called the parallax effect. Also got these
little blurbs here for argument sake and we got a nice clean call to action and so on.
So this is just one sort of website that I'm going to be showing you how to build and you
can also have a different feel, you can have this sort of feel. This is for one of my business's
that I got, which is a videography and photography business. So, the thing with this as I say,
this website is really about generating leads and clients for you. now with that said, the
first thing you're going to be needing to do is to get web hosting. And web hosting
is basically a big hard drive that is left on 24 7, that holds the information of your
website. So whoever is looking at your website can access that website 24 7. Because if you
can picture a hard drive in your home, you wouldn't leave that on 24 7, would you? Because
it's just not practical. So with that said Hostgator are basically a big hard drive company
that store information for your website. So hostgstor is a company I would recommend and
I have been using them for many years now.So when you go to hostgator.com you want to press
this button here. Basically you want to choose a plan. This is quite ambiguous this $5.56
per month becuase... yeah, i will explain that to you in just a moment.
But hit the sign up now button. If i go back a step there are three plans you can choose
from, the hatchling plan is just going to enable you to register 1 domain, which basically
means, to register 1 website. So I won't bore you with the other plans at this moment in
time.
But this is one we're going to use in this video. So once you done that you going to
need to select your domain name, which is basically "yourdomain.com" and the thing is
is when you click outside this box it going to let you know if that domain name is available
or not. And its also going to give suggest you alternatives. So your domain name might
be your name, it might be relevant name to the industry you're moving in, and so on.
So once you have done that the next thing you want to do is to choose your plan. So
the hatchling plan is just for one website, and you then got a choice here of how much
you want to spend per month. So for argument sake 36 months at $5.56, the catch for that
if you will is that you have to pay up front for that period of time. So if you scroll
to the bottom you can see the amount due is $232 dollars. So you have the option of paying
monthly obviously the catch there is they;re obviously charging a lot more per month
because there is not commitment on your part.
So once you have select that and you have selected your plan, and you have decided on
how much you want to spend, then fill out all of the form here as it's quite self-explanatory,
ao you would enter your username, security pin, you also fill out your name and address,
and so on. And then you just want to tick the terms and conditions box, and then click
checkout now! And then from that point what hostgator are going to do is send you all
of your login details and so on to your cPanel. Now if thats the first time you have heard
of this terminology, then don’t worry about it, you are basically going to get this funny
little URL here which you would select, then put in your username and your password, and
then you're going to be seeing this.
And this is like the inside of your hard-drive. To put it quite simply and the first thing
you're going to want to do is add-on your domain name. So the domain name that you just
purchased you are going to want to add on. So you're going to want to scroll down and
then click this button here, that says add on domain, and from this point you want to
enter in your domain.. so it would be your domain and then click outside here and then
enter in your password of choice.
Now once you have done that, you then want to load wordpress onto that domain. Now you
may not have heard of word press before but in a nutshell word press is a platform that
is going to enable you to build your website. So we would just click this button here. And
from this point we need to now load wordpress, so we come down to here, and then click this
button, install wordpress.
Now at this point you're only going to have one domain name here. I got several domains
but you're only going to have one at this moment in time. So select your domain that
you want. And at that point put in your email, blog title, I would just call this your name
to start with, admin user, do not put admin here, the reason is because there are a lot
of hackers out there admin is a very common name for hackers to use to hack into your
site. And then you just want to hit install wordpress.
And you can see where you install is running now. SO what's happening at this moment in
time wordpress is being loaded onto your hosting account and again this is all going to make
sense as we go through the rest of this video and at this stage we're about 5 or 10 minutes
away from having a fully functional website. So at this stage I'm going to leave wordpress
to load on the hosting account and come back.
OK, so I have left for about 5 minutes now, and I know that the template is going to be
loaded onto my hosting account. So your details to login to your wordpress website have also
been emailed to you, so you can just click this little drop down tab here and also access
your login details here. So here you want to select admin area.
Ad this is the login page to my website. So what we going to do is just copy and paste
this password here and also put in the username, and then hit the login button.
And from this point you're into your wordpress website, which is brilliant. So if I was to
look at my website now or your website is going to kind of look like this. So at this
point, congratulations! So at this point we're very very close getting a fully functionally
website that will help you to more leads and clients for your business, which is fantastic.
So at this point quite a lot of variety or options that are open to you. What you can
do is basically choose how you want your website to be, and what I mean by that is these are
basically templates... this is template, it's a very good template mind you and it looks
really cool. You have all these really cool effects. But this isn't completely free. What
you can do if you want a free website or theme, what you can do is going to appearance and
then themes, hit this button, and from here can choose how you want your website to look
and feel. So for argument sake if i was to choose this theme here, ok I could activate
it. I'm going to show what that looks like in just one moment. But you can also go into
a library of themes, so you get a very large variety of what it is you want to do. You
can literally hit that button there that says theme, and you're into a massive library of
different themes you can choose from, which is great. Obviously the popular one's are
quite popular and you can actually choose and look and feel of the websites. So if I
was to choose this one i could install this theme and then activate that theme. And then
from here if I look at my website now you can see its going to be very different to
what we just saw a moment ago. And again this is a very basic website. What you can do is
to change all of these elements here. Personally, I don’t think this is a very good option
for a website, if I'm brutally honest. I much prefer something like this, or something like
this. And to be honest the amount of money you would have to spend is so minuscule that
I think it's well worth it. I mean there are a lot of free website out there and all that
sort of jazz but lets be honest there are going to be some many people that are looking
at your website, you are going to want to have some sort of quality about it. You don’t
want it to be complete rubbish. So with that said, I theme I would recommend you buy would
be on elegant themes, so if you go to the elegant themes.com, it looks like this, then
go to join to download and sign up today for 69 bucks, which is maybe the best part of
about 55 quid,, which is absolute shirt buttons, considering you're going to gave access to
this for 12 months. So sign up to there and when you login to elegant themes, you're going
to want to on of the themes, which is called the divi theme. So once you have purchased
your elegant themes subscription you just want to scroll down until you come to theme
downloads, then click the download button, theme package, then let that download to your
downloads box, and then from there you want to go back to your website. So if I go back
into the dash and then what I want to do is go to appearance, then I want to go to themes,
and then from here I want to go to add new. Then I want to go to uploads themes, and click
this button here and go to browse, and then go downloads, and then I would select the
divi theme, which is what we just downloaded, click open, and then install now. OK so once
you have activated that theme, now if i look at my website, we got a very very different
feel. I know this doesn't look like anything at the moment but trust me, your website is
going to look absolutely fantastic. And the very first thing we are going to want to do
is create a home page. So what you ant to do is go to new, page, and then from this
point we just want to call this page home. Then you want to click this button here, which
is the divi theme builder. And if I go load from library its going to give me loads of
different options to choose from. So if I scroll down to home page, we got several different
options here. But if I go to home page corporate and then click load, then select that. Then
if you click this button here, you can preview what that template looks like.