Need website in a hurry?

If you need to get a professional-looking blog or website up in a hurry… and don’t know ANYTHING about website design… and don’t want to spend HUNDREDS of dollars on a professional web designer… here’s what you need to do.

You can get a very professional-looking, easy-to-use website up and running in ONE HOUR. It will cost you about $7.95 per month for the web hosting and nothing else.  What’s more, each ADDITIONAL website you create will only cost you $10 per year.

Here’s how.

Step 1: Sign up for a web hosting account with BlueHost.com. It will cost you about $95 for a whole year but you can get it for as little as 3 months, if you want something temporary. This price INCLUDES the cost of the domain name… unlimited email addresses… and, if you want to create another website, the additional website is only $10 for the whole year (including domain name). This step only takes about 5 minutes.

Step 2: Install WordPress on the BlueHost account. If you don’t know how to do that, watch the video below that explains everything in just 21 minutes. The actual amount of time it takes to install WordPress on the BlueHost system is about 1 minute.

That’s it.  The beauty of this approach is that it lets you create unlimited websites for just $10 per year… including the domain name AND webhosting.  You can’t beat that.

Step 3: Pick a FREE WordPress template that you like from the hundreds that are available through WordPress.  We will cover this in a future video.

Step 4: Design a professional-looking BANNER for the top of your site. This, too, will be covered in another video.

Step 5: Create the pages and posts you want for your site. These can include products and services, sale items, contact information, you name it. Use the blogging (center) section of the WordPress template to write regular updates.

That’s it! This entire process should take no less than about 30 minutes, tops.

Lesson #3: How to Modify WordPress Themes with Tiny Tweaks to the CSS

I keep coming back to the metaphor of lifting the hood of a car: You don’t have to understand how the entire engine works to replace a battery or add some oil. Getting into the “guts” of a WordPress blog, like lifting the engine of a car, means leaving 98% of it exactly as you find it. You just have to know how to find the one or two things you have to tweak a bit.

This video is about “tweaking” your WordPress template or “theme” just a tad to get it to look the way you’d like. Actuallyy, what I actually demonstrate is how to WIDEN the main content box from the default 534px (pixels) to 700 pixels. I do this because I like BIG photos in blogs. I think every post should have a great photo going along with it. Also, a 700px-wide content box means that, when you get around to posting videos — as I hope all of my students do — the wide format makes for much better video.

Anyway, check out this video. It’s free. It’s short. And I think it will teach you a thing or two.