If you have a business; whether it is big or small, or you simply want to provide information about your business online; having a website is essential for your company’s success.
If you want to build a new start-up website, first you will need a domain name and a web hosting platform.
A domain name is your website’s address on the internet and a web hosting platform is where your website files will be stored.
Yeahhost offers WordPress hosting plans powered by LiteSpeed. LiteSpeed has been proven to be the fastest performing web server optimised for WordPress sites. You can use Softaculous, a one-click script installer to install WordPress to your domain for free.
Once the domain and hosting plan is ready, you can start to create your website. Make sure to first login to your hosting, you can use the one-click installation to install WordPress. You are now ready to customise your website design.
Login to the WordPress dashboard. On the left-hand side you will see the WordPress settings.
Click on Appearance > Themes to change your website theme. You can click on Add New to install a new theme for your site. The same method can be used for Plugins. Simply click on Add New if you wish to install new plugin. You can deactivate or activate the plugins from the Plugins > Installed Plugins page.
To add new contents to your site, you can either use Post or Pages from the WordPress dashboard. Upload any images or media that you want to include in your website to the Media Library.
This is a quick guide for you to get started designing your website. You can go through these features in the WordPress dashboard before creating the content.
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Summary / Conclusion
To conclude, as a business owner, having a website as a physical storefront helps to grow your company over time. Register a domain, look for affordable hosting plan, create a professional website, and build your own branding.
IT support specialist with expertise in Windows hosting, cPanel, WordPress, server admin, mail administrator and more. BCS (Hons) from University Malaysia Pahang.
