You must have heard that the development of the Word Press website is a simple and easy task. The strange thing is that you still don’t know how to create one for you, but your friends are easily doing the same. But no need to worry anymore, because here I am going to describe the complete process for website development.

Before Start, Read Some Facts

Well, before starting, I want to share some alluring facts about the Word Press platform - It is the best CMS platform which is used by almost 32% websites of the world, It offers the power of ‘Woo commerce’ to easily start your online stores, availability of various themes and plugins make it more attractive and, the important feature is that this platform is SEO friendly.

Now, let’s begin with step by step guide for building a Word Press website. When the first time you step inside the Word Press dashboard, you may be fascinated by simple and user-friendly appearance. A management sidebar on the left. A clean interface to work within the center. Notifications at the top. But when you dig deep inside the layers, you may find it little complicated. So let’s discuss some practical steps to build your website:

Step 1 Choose A Domain Name For You

You have to begin by choosing the perfect Domain name for your website. It will create an online identity for your business. Your domain name is your URL or website address and, the users will type it in the web browser’s address to visit your website. For example, the Domain name for Binary Data is binarydata.ca but don’t get confused with domain name and URL. Domain name is just a part of the URL.

While selecting a Domain Name, make sure about the following things:

Relatively Short and Simple:

Make your domain name convenient for users because it is a website address for your visitors. So keep it short, simple and memorable.  

Relevant To The Services You Are Offering:

Choose the domain name according to the website's content and services. So after knowing the name, the user should know a bit about your website.

Select Appropriate Extension:

Domain names are always added with the suffix such as .com, .org, .net, .edu, .in, .ca etc. You may be acquainted with all these domain extensions but you may not aware of the specific meaning they depict. Here, .com is for commercial, .net is for the network, .edu is for education and .org is for the organization. These all are known as Top Level Domain (TLD). We also have geographical location based domain name such as .in for .ca for Canada etc.

Step 2 Buy Web Hosting And Domain

Well, once you have registered the domain name, the next step is Web hosting. Domain registration and Web hosting are entirely two different things. Web Hosting is reserving the place where you can store your web data- Images, Content and web files. Without web hosting, your website will not be visible on the internet. There are various types of Word Press Hosting plans:

Shared Hosting: As the name is indicating itself that resources will be shared by whether it is a memory, hard disk space, and bandwidth. But the website will get limited space and compromised security and speed.

VPS (Virtual Private Server): Resources will be shared but the users will be limited as compared to the shared hosting plan.

Dedicated Hosting Plan: It is quite expensive, but no sharing is there. Dedicated resources for a dedicated user.

Managed Word Press Hosting: This kind of hosting is specifically for Word Press platform. In this plan, the user will have dedicated resources plus a Word Press management solution.

Step 3 Install Word Press

After buying Domain Name and Web Hosting Plan, you are on well on your way! Next task is to install Word Press on your hosting server. As long as the one-click Word Press installation feature is not there, a manual installation was done and it required some technical expertise. Almost all the renowned Word Press hosting companies offer 1-click Word Press installation so that you can get the latest version of Word Press installed in a matter of minutes.

Step 4 Start Designing By Choosing Your Theme

Now here the magic begins!

Here the journey will be started where you distinguish your website from others. There you will go for a theme. There are more than 1500 professionally designed and visually attractive Word Press themes and you can choose any one of them and alter it as per your requirement.

Few steps to install the theme of your taste

Log in to your dashboard by typing in web browser’s address https://yoursite.com/wp-admin, Here 'Your site' indicate the domain name. Login with your credentials and dashboard will open. The dashboard is quite user-friendly, so observes things calmly and don’t get confused. Click on the ‘appearance’ option and go for themes. Select the theme of your choice and then simply click on “Install” followed by “Activate”.

Step 4 Add Plugins As Per Your Choice

Login your dashboard, go to Plugins>Add New and search for the plugin that you need. You can search the plugins by names or keywords. When you find the plugin that you need, click on the “Install Now” button. After that click on the blue “Activate” button.

Step 5 Add SEO Optimized Content

Word Press is an SEO friendly platform. It offers you to easily do On-Page SEO. You can optimize the permalinks, title tags and headings, images and other media easily. You can add content in all the pages of the website as per your requirement. Moreover, Word Press is completely mobile-friendly platform. Therefore it is highly responsive as well.

Finally- you are all set to launch your website! But keep optimizing it afterwards.

Wrapping Up