The Internet has become a major source of income for many businesses all over the world. The Internet gives you a great opportunity to scale up your business globally. The Internet has become a great marketplace for small scale businesses. In the past, one couldn’t think about taking his business in front of a global audience. Today, you just need to create a personal website to scale your business globally. It has become very easy to construct websites without knowing to program. In this article, small scale business owners and other professionals can learn about how to build high-quality websites.

• First of all, let’s talk about the importance of learning how to create websites.
• The Internet allows you to learn everything on your own. You can learn about building websites and then build a personal web site of your own.
• It will save you hundreds of dollars.
• Knowing how to build a website will give you a competitive edge.

An Overview

Firstly, you need to know that you either can hire a web developer & designer to create a website or you build on your own.

Here, we’ll talk about building your high-quality website.

WordPress—the Best Platform to Create Websites

Though you can find several platforms to create a website, WordPress is a popular and the best platform to create a professional or personal web site.

It offers great ease of use, and you need to follow simple steps to build your high-quality website that can serve basic to advance level operations. Either you’re looking to build your high-quality website for content-based operations or e-commerce store, WordPress is the right platform.

Let’s jump into where to start.

The first step is choosing the right platform to build your website. As we have explained above that WordPress is by far the most used and perfect platform for beginners as well as experts.

WordPress itself is a free platform and doesn’t charge anything from the users. You’ll not be paying even a single penny to WordPress to run your website. You’ll pay hosting charges to a website hosting company. You’ll also need to buy a domain name from a domain provider. The charges of a domain name vary from provider to provider. We’ll talk about it in the next step.

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1. Buy hosting and domain

You need to buy hosting and domain for your website. A domain name is the name of any website. The website host is responsible for handling your content or website data that users will be browsing from your website.

There are many hosting and domain providers available in the market. Every provider offers different hosting and domain packages. You need to be careful about selecting a package.

Bluehost is the right platform to get a domain and hosting for your WordPress website. They offer the most suitable packages to create websites.

With Bluehost, you’ll be able to install WordPress with the one-click feature. It is comparatively better and cheaper than other hosting providers. It starts only at $2.95/monthly. One of the great benefits of choosing Bluehost is that you get a free domain name.

Visit the Bluehost website and select Get Started Now. Then, you’ll see different hosting plans. If you’re just starting and building your first website and your use is also going to be basic, then the recommended plan for you is the Basic plan. Otherwise, you can choose a plan that caters to your advance level needs.

Proceed with the plan and input the required information, and then you’ll ready to checkout. A window will ask you to create a domain name. Write a name that you want to give to your website.

2. Install WordPress

After successfully buying a hosting plan and creating your domain name, you’ll be able to install WordPress.

From your Bluehost dashboard, select Install WordPress. After selecting the Install WordPress button, Bluehost will create a WordPress screen where you’ll enter your domain name. In the next screen, you are asked to set up a site name, admin name, and admin password. After providing the required details, select Install and after a quick installation, your WordPress site is ready.

Now, type “yourdomainname.com/wp-admin” and you’ll be asked to enter your credentials including username and password that you’ve created earlier.

3. Choose an attractive theme

The basic principle behind choosing the theme is that it must sync with the persona of your brand/business. You’ll be able to access several themes. Choose the one that suits your brand and also seems attractive. Apart from the available free themes, you can also use premium themes designed for WordPress.

4. Write & prepare content

After setting up the theme of your website, the next important thing is to write original and engaging content. Being a new website, your visitors may be interested in knowing about your services, your story, and contact details. Set up About Us and Contact Us pages and write creative and engaging content about yourself or your brand.

The most important part of the content is Blog content. This is your chance to attract the audience and turn them into your regular audience. Your blog content should be around your business or niche. Try to write as much creative, useful, original, and persuasive content as possible. This will decide how much do you know about your business. Try to convey solutions regarding different problems that people face in your target market.

You can set up different pages to serve different purposes. Go to the Pages and select Add New to add a new page to your website. Write only relevant content on each page.

5. Perform some customizations

The next important thing after you’ve done your personal creating (WordPress website) try to make your website presentable and attractive. Creating a responsive and attractive website is very important to give a high-quality user experience to the visitors.

From the Settings, go to the Readings and select a static page. Tagline and title are very important. Make sure you type a comprehensive and attractive title of your website. Your tagline should sync with your website. Try to keep it catchy and comprehensive at the same time.

Add a comment section to your blog page so they can tell you about the quality of your content. From the Settings, go to the Discussion and configure the settings. You can take control of who can post comments and whether to show them immediately or hold them for your approval.

The navigation of your website should be comprehensive and visible. Under the Appearance section, go to the Menus and then create menus.

What can you do with your WordPress website?

After following the above steps, you’ll be able to able to have a website that you can call your personal creating. With WordPress, it is easy to construct websites that can serve different purposes. From building a content-based platform, personal web site to an e-commerce store— you can use your personal web site made on WordPress for all kinds of purposes.

For converting your website to an e-commerce platform, integrate the most popular e-commerce platform “WooCommerce” to your WordPress site.