Build A Great Looking Web Site….. The Fast And Easy Way….. Using WordPress

Are you a raw beginner when it comes to building web sites?

Are you finding it really hard to learn the coding skills necessary to build web sites? Is HTML, PHP, and CSS all Greek to you? Don’t feel bad or alone, most people fall into that category.

Perhaps, on the other hand, you are fairly experienced at building web sites, but you find it just takes up too much of your valuable, and limited, time. Even using one of the WYSIWYG editors that are available to help with the coding, it just flat out consumes too much of your time, and time is something that most of us just don’t seem to have enough of anymore.

Well, cheer up, because there is a way to build great looking fully functional web sites and it is very fast, very inexpensive, and very powerful. You can learn to do it without spending a lot of time or money, and you can turn out professional quality web sites in no time at all.

If you just plain out don’t want to tackle building the web site yourself, you can have someone else do a basic install for you, and then all you need to do is make a few basic settings and begin adding your content or products or whatever.

In case you haven’t guessed what I am talking about yet, I’m talking about using WordPress to build your web site. And just in case you think that WordPress is only for creating blogs and putting a bunch of mostly useless and uninteresting (at least to other people besides your friends and family) content up on the internet, then you better think again.

The fact is, WordPress has become so powerful and so versatile that you can create just about any kind of web site you can imagine, and you can do it without spending much time or money. Since time and money are precious to most of us, that is a deal that is hard to beat.

You can register a domain name for around ten bucks, purchase some hosting for another $5 to $15 per month, and you are ready to go. Most hosting accounts now come with cPanel and Fantastico, and you can login to your hosting account and do a WordPress install in about 5 minutes or less. I use InMotion Hosting for a lot of my sites because they give you a free domain registration when you purchase their hosting, so you’re not out the $10 or so that it costs to register a domain name.

Once you get WordPress installed on your domain at your hosting account, you can then login to your dashboard on your new WordPress site and begin making your basic settings and getting your site organized the way you want.

Next step is to go to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ and browse through the plugins that are available, most for free I might add, and decide which ones you will want to download and install on your new WordPress web site.

Plugins are simply great little code snippets that you install and activate in WordPress, and they can do tremendous amounts of work and save you tremendous amounts of time. As stated above, many of them are absolutely free, and they are invaluable in getting your WordPress site to accomplish the tasks you want it to, and with a minimum amount of effort on your part.

Here are some examples of what WordPress plugins can do for you…..

Control and practically eliminate the spam comments that your site may receive
Automatically create a Google compliant sitemap for your web site
Automatically help to make your site SEO friendly for the search engine spiders
Install a contact form on your site so customers can contact you
Make it easy for site visitors to refer your content to the Web 2.0 sites
Install Adsense ads on your site
Turn your site into an ecommerce site complete with shopping cart
Automatically upgrade your site to the latest version of WordPress
Create RSS feeds for your site and submit to Feedburner
Automatically backup the database for your site
Convert your site into a membership site and handle subscriptions and member management

And the list goes on and on…..

Next step is to go to http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ and take a look at all of the free themes that are available to download and install on your new WordPress web site.

If you are building your web site more for personal use rather than as a serious business type web site, then I recommend that you choose a free theme that suits your needs and install and activate it on your web site, and you will instantly have a great looking web site ready to start adding your content.

If you are building your web site as a serious business or professional web site, or as a serious blog in the hopes of making money from it, then my personal preference is to use a premium WordPress theme rather than a free one. Premium themes are available to suit almost any need, and they are reasonably priced and well worth the small expense required to purchase them.

Premium WordPress themes are available for…..

Social web sites
Business web sites
Corporate web sites
Membership web sites
Photo gallerys
News sites
eCommerce web sites
Grunge type web sites
Music web sites
Real estate web sites
Auto sales web sites
Sports related web sites
Church web sites
School and team web sites
Professional blog web sites

And again, the list goes on and on…..

I personally use and recommend premium themes available at iThemes because they have themes available for just about any type of web site you can imagine, their themes are professionally designed and coded, the prices are very reasonable, and you get great support and training . Their new Builder Theme is probably the most versatile and advanced theme available, there is not much you can’t do with it as far as creating a custom WordPress web site.

So, when it comes to building a web site, whether you are a raw beginner or an experienced site builder, it will pay you to consider using WordPress. You can literally install WordPress, install your plugins and theme, and start adding content in just a matter of minutes. In no time at all, you can have a great looking web site up and running, and you can do it with very little cost and very little experience.

As stated above, if you have no desire to tackle the project yourself, then take advantage of our expertise and let us install a custom WordPress site for you, it’s fast, easy, and very reasonably priced.

Also see Building A Custom WordPress Web Site