Every business and craft needs a website to flourish and
creating a website has never been this easy, given the number of free open
source platforms available today for the task.
In this article, I shall try to sum up the entire process of
website installation in easy pointers for your convenience. Let's get started.
There are three basic steps to install your own website and
these steps we shall discuss elaborately, which are:
·
Selecting
a Platform.
·
Selecting
a Domain name and Host.
·
Finally Installing
Platform and getting started with website building.
These steps are simple, easily comprehensible and efficient,
if you intend to create a basic website without much coding. Let's discuss these
points in detail.
1. Selecting a Platform.
Choosing the right platform for creating your website is
very important. It is like a foundation on which you build up your website.
Many free open source CMS are available, most popular of
which are WordPress, Drupal and Joomla!.
If you have some working knowledge of user end and server
side programming languages, you can go for Drupal or Joomla!. For those who
lack technical knowledge regarding coding, WordPress is the apt choice. This
feature of WordPress is what makes it immensely popular and a platform that is
universally used to create websites.
There are many upsides of using WordPress some of which I
shall mention here.
·
It is free.
·
Easy to install with many free templates and
plugins to choose from for your website.
·
Great for small or large scale websites
likewise.
·
Responsive Website Designs.
Owing to these features, WordPress has become #1 choice for
beginners.
2. Choosing a Domain name and Host.
Having a domain name and web hosting service is very crucial
for getting your website online.
Domain name and hosting can cost you anywhere between $3-$30
dollars a month depending upon which domain name and web hosting service you
choose.
Your domain name should be catchy, marketable and relevant
to what you do. Stick to .org, .com or .net domain extensions.
3. Getting Started with WordPress.
Once you have your domain name and web hosting, you can step
up the ladder and install WordPress to start developing your website. Steps to
installation are as follows.
·
One-click
Installation
Many good web hosting services like Enterprise Web Cloud
offers integrated "one-click
installation" for WordPress. Follow these easy steps for installation.
(1) Log in to your web hosting account.
(2) Locate "WordPress" or "Website" icon
in the control panel.
(3) Select the domain where you want to install your
website.
(4) Click on "Install Now" button and get access
to your WordPress website.
·
Manual
Installation.
If, however, your web
hosting does not offer "one-click Installation", go for manual
installation of WordPress, the steps to which we discuss hereby.
(1) Download WordPress from the official web page by typing
in the URL http://wordpress.org/download
(2) Extract WordPress in a new folder on your desktop from
the zip file.
(3) Rename a file named wp-config-sample.php to: wp-config.php.
(4) Open wp-config.php with
notepad and type in the following lines:
- define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘database_name_here’); – Database name (if you don’t know it, ask this from your hosting support)
- define(‘DB_USER’, ‘username_here’); – Your hosting username
- define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password_here’); – Your hosting password
Save the file after filling in the gaps.
(5) Log into your hosting ftp. FTP address is
ftp.yourdomain.com mostly, username and password being the same that you used
to register to your host.
(6) Delete any file named "index". Following that,
upload all the files from your WordPress folder to your FTP server. "drag
n drop" function of FileZilla can be used for the same.
(7) Visit URL: yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php
after
you have completed the previous step. The resulting page should look like this:
All you have to do now is to fill in the forms and you are all set to
start creating your website.
We hope, you have fully
understood the installation process completely with the help of this article.
All green lights for your website building venture.
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