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Hey guys and welcome to my video tutorial where I will walk you through exactly how
to make a website in less than seven minutes. I won't be leaving anything out and I'll show
you how to make a website from start to finish and we will be signing up for all the accounts
needed so you can actually follow along for yourself. Now in the video we will cover:
ï How to register a domain name ï Sign up for a hosting account
ï Install WordPress on your new hosting account ï Change the theme of the new WordPress site
and write your first blog post. as a bonus at the end of the video.
I'm going to show you the free software that I use every day that'll make managing files
on your new hosting account extremely easy but before we get started let me explain some
of these terms if you haven't had Them before
? A domain name simply tells people how to get to your website and its hosting that simply
stores all the files that they will see when they visit the site.
For hosting I use just host for all of my sites. There are hundreds of hosting companies
to choose from but I have used just host for the past five years and I've always been reliable
and that's why I recommend them to you too. I have heard too many horror stories from
other hosting providers to go with anyone else, on top of their reliability just host
are cheap and they provide a 60-day money-back guarantee and your cpanel is instantly available
where some other providers might take 48 hours to set up your account.
? Now word press is the third step in getting your website up on the Internet and the best
part about that itís free it's the perfect platform for you to get your website up and
running without any technical knowledge and it's perfect for every topic website whether
you want a business website, blog, news website or e-commerce store and because it's so widely
used this thousands of things and customization is available to make your website stand out.
Now the reason I'm making this video is because I see the biggest roadblock for people wanting
to build their own website is the technical side of things and being unsure of where to
start. Whether you want to start your own online business or you have an offline businesses
wanting a web presence so you can be found by customers on Google having a website these
days is crucial to your success and that's why I put together this video to show you
that it doesn't have to be difficult and really can be done in under seven minutes without
any coding knowledge at all. so thanks for taking the time to watch this tutorial and
I encourage you to click the link in the description below to follow along you can pause the video
as needed to complete the steps yourself as I will be going through these fairly quickly.
Ok let's get started so Iíve got a timer here on the left hand side and it has a count
down just so you know there's no post editing tricks going on and we are actually doing
everything in this video in under seven minutes. I am going to start the video here on youtube
because most of you might be watching the video here as soon as I hit play am going
to click on the link down the description that says get more details because if you
click through on that link you'll be able to follow the steps as we go and get your
website up and running in less than seven minutes. okay So let's keep playing and get
started quick playing click on the description there in the link below it'll take you through
just host which is my recommended hosting provider as soon as that goes through then,
I apologize my internet is running a bit slow at the moment so hopefully that means we don't
get some time in seven minutes click on Get Started now Type in the domain name that you
prefer I'm gonna type in seven minutes example dot com and see if it's available, okay it's
available I'm gonna go ahead and type my details in there I have blocked the screen for privacy
but you go ahead and type in your details I'm gonna put my credit card details in here
okay so select the time you want for this website. I gonna select 12 months I'm gonna
day select the optional extras here you can choose if you want those or not but you can
say that we've got all that Its hundred dollars on the ID one does Australian for these so
they are even cheaper in American does so any one does for your website up for the four-year
hosting this the more optional extras here am just gonna scroll down to the bottom and
click continue and it instantly available now we just need a create a password.
so go ahead and create a password now we might to wait a few minutes because we've gone into
quick so sometimes it just takes a few moments to for just host to set up the account for
us and type my password it didnít even go. so now you just need to type in your password
again that you just created click on login it'll take a second click on cpanel up in
the left-hand side now we have gone in to quick again okay so sometimes I just need
to set things up behind the scenes before we go in so just try and click on that again
and see if we can get in okay we are in and the website builders click on Word Press and
what that will do is take us through the automatic installer so it'll go through here it'll take
a few moments in this is probably the longest part of this whole setup process is installing
WordPress on the server so click on start a brand-new install check domain Click on
the apps show advance options and what you want to do is you can set up the site name
I'm can use a name type in a password and click Install Now and you can see at the top
there it's currently installing the wordpress and software on our new domain name that we
just set up so we just need to sit here and wait for that to go through its entire process.
I apologize my internet is running slow so this might take a little bit longer But hopefully
that means we can still get everything done in under seven minutes so we just have to
sit here and wait for that too load but you can say that it's very quick we've already
? set up our domain name ? weíve signed up for a hosting
I've actually paid for a brand new hosting account exactly the same way you will, Iíve
gone through the cpanel after setting up the account and it's available right away some
other hosting providers make you wait for up to 48 hours before you can even get this
far we've done it under Four minutes so far so as soon as this live will have with WordPress
up and running so you can say it's about halfway through at the moment we've got three minutes
remaining and it's all been very quick so this is probably the longest part of the install
but once itís done our website is gonna be live so we'll just sit here and wait for it
finish and it's done so if we go to the website now seven minute example dot com I'll just try that again with the www in front
up of it www dot seven-minute example dot com this should be our brand new website that
we're just set up. okay so thatís how our website looks at the moment you can say it's
not too interesting but we can go into we just got a seven minute example dot com forward
slash WP dash admin is how you get to this login page so you type in your domain name
forward slash through if I get the password rather it will be good try that again itís
going ok so this is where you go to in the dashboard go to appearance themes so we want
to add new theme am just going to add the responsive theme this is one of the best one
of my favorite free theme that is available.
? click on install now, ? click on activate and that's done .
Now i wanna show you just a few things how you can customize this thing go to theme options
and the theme options you can change any of these options is very easy to change am just
gonna show you how to add a social lock on just to show you an example so if you have
a facebook account you can just type it here that's your Facebook url, you just click save
options now what that's going to do is save social icon straight to the website so it's
very easy just to type in all these details with no coding knowledge needed or anything
of that now let us wait for that to finish before we add a post So to write a new blog
post
? click on post and click on add new.
Now you just want to give a title and call it the first post: welcome to my blog on top
whatever you want and then click on published on the right hand side and that will be live
and thatís done so let's go visit the site you can say this is a brand new side It got
sample page and things like that on it. It got sample data on the front this is our website
up and running youíve written your first blog post so a quick stop you can see that
we have four seconds left Thatís how you build a web site under seven minutes.
let me show you the website you now have up and running and also show you a few extra
customization that will help you out plus the Free Software I promised to show you at
the start of the video That will make managing files on your hosting account real simple
so let's just take a look at the website now this is it up and running and this is the
responsive theme that we loaded in the seventh minute tutorial the reason I love this thing
is because it's so easy to use you can simply swap out this logo for your own logo it shows
you a sample page also when you load the things so that you know what the page looks like
when you set it up. This section here and it says hello world and has a call to action
is really great and to making your home page you're on landing page simply swap out this
image here with whatever product or services you are offering
change the text and you've got a great place to converting website visitors or email subscribers
or sales of your product or whatever it might be that you're offering then at the bottom
of the page you've got these three sections call widgets you can add whatever you're lucky
you can add you raised an articles that you've loaded you can add links to your other page
you can add an optin form to grow your email list this is very easy to change and I'll
show you show you had a Change those sections in a moment you can also see that in the bottom
here that there's a Facebook icon that's the Facebook user that we type into the themes
settings during the seven-minute tutorial so it's very easy to add all the social icon
to help you to boost engagement as well you'll know when we went through the tutorial that
we were hearing that what's called the dashboard area you can add new posts and they can add
new pages we went into the appearance and change the themes you can see that's where
we change the widgets before I get into that I'll show you this black bar that shows up
on top of your website so this is showing on the very top of your website and it only
shows to you well you logged in it doesn't show your website visitors you're the only
one that can see this what that allows you to do is if you're on this post that we created
during the tutorial you can simply click on Edit post at the top here and it will take
you through the dashboard area in that particular section where you can change everything about
the post so what I'm gonna show you real quick here is just how to add an image you simply
just select where you want the image to be in your post click on add media select files
and I'll just choose an example one here that Iíve got outside and when it's uploaded you
can see on the left hand side here you can change things like The title of the image
the caption the alternative text the description and you can choose whether it's left aligned
in the center or autonomous am gonna put it in the center for today's Example and you
just go ahead and you click Inset into post you can see that's where the picture shows
up in the post is not just a text anymore we've got an image in there and you simply
click on update on the right hand side and that will now be live in our post.
so that's how easy it is to add images to your post if I click on view post now. We
will have a look on it on your website exactly how that looks so there it is there here is
the title we had before and the text you can see it's got an image in there as well so
very easy to add images in what also wanna show you is just how those widgets the ones
that I showed you on the home page. if we go to appearance go to Widgets in this area
you'll see that there's a whole section of widget I'm just gonna show you the Home Page
widget real quick which was the one on the homepage and let's say you want your recent
Posts to show up on the home page of your side you simply drag in recent Posts their
given it a title so we will just call this one recent Posts you can choose the number
of post to showed thaws we've got two on the website so we'll show two if we had five it
would show five click on size and that's it you see that your home page scroll down to
bottom you see that this widget one area has been replaced with the recent Posts there
is the new post that we created and a sample one that came with the theme see whatever
you want in this one the second section in the third section along with the Side bar
so side bar area being again this section on the right hand side here what I wanna show
you narrow quick is just the free software that I use every day that'll make managing
the software your website files that much easier its cool FileZilla that's it FileZilla-
project.org if you click on that website if you haven't already downloaded through so
you can simply just click on the download links here that will load in a moment click
on Download you can download the software I've already got something to show you how
quickly works this is what you say when you open up the FileZilla program so you will
see this three or four boxes across the top 1 called host one called username one called
password one called port these are the detail you type in for your new hosting account
and it's the same every time so I'm gonna show you what they are it's just simply ftp
does and then the name of your domain name so mine is seven minute example dot com
so ftp got your username, domain name, username before you get back into control panels for
just host remember we were here earlier during the tutorial scroll down the page while you're
on then you say these in your details Main domain seven minute example dot com. username
is that one in my case sevminut so if we go back into here and put that into the box there
followed by that at and then your domain name 7 minutes example dot com password is the
password that you created when you set up your hosting account so go ahead and type
that in there port you can leave out that for the time being and click Quick Connect
what that's doing is establishing a connection to your hosting account and what it will do
is on the right hand side these are all the files that are now in your hosting account
that shows up in this easy to use panel here so what you want to do is go to this folder
called public HTML that's where are you publicly viewable files will be and what people see
when they go to your website If I open that up you will see this three folders here wp-admin
wp-content wp- includes there the folders that hold all the files that drive your WordPress
database so you don't really need to change those you can change them on the WordPress
dashboard that I was showing you but say you wanted to add in a folder called there is
already one here called images that say you want to create a new folder and let's just
call it images as well I'll call it image photo and so you want to insert all of your
images into that photo image folder So I create a new directories see how I just created a
new folder there. I will open it up it's got nothing in it at this point on the left hand
side here and you'll see that these are all the files that are on your computer on your
local drive in your computer though right hand side is where all the files that are
on your hosting to get from one to the other this is the example picture we loaded onto
a website before so if I want to put that in this new folder i simply click on it drag
it across and drop it you can say it's thinking up here and what that does is loads the computer
from my local computer on to my hosting account that's now available for anyone to show you
that's now available for everyone all we need to do is go to seven minute example dot com
slash image photo which was the new folder we just set up forward slash example dot jpg
which was the nine of our image so if I enter now you will see that every is now available
free on the side So FileZilla is a free software that you can download that'll make managing
the files in your hosting account very easy i recommend that I use it every day and you
can see that it's very simple drag from one side to the other so names but all the steps
you know exactly how we set up our first website in under seven minutes Change the theme of
WordPress and registered our domain name signed up for hosting got a website log only under
seven minutes and you'll be able to do the same thing so I hope you enjoyed watching
today's tutorial and thanks again to you too