How to Make a WordPress Website

Step 1: Choose WordPress as your website platform. …
Step 2: Pick a name for your website, buy a domain & hosting. …
Step 3: Get familiar with the WordPress UI. …
Step 4: Pick a theme / design for your website. …
Step 5: Get plugins to extend your website’s abilities. …
Step 6: Create basic pages. …
Step 7: Consider starting a blog.

Step 1: Choose WordPress as your website platform
Truth be told, there are many website platforms that you can use when building a new site – Content Management Systems (CMS) is what they’re usually called.

The idea of a CMS is to give you some easy-to-use tools so that you’re able to edit your site’s content without any knowledge of coding. For the most part – from the user’s point of view – those CMS look much like the familiar interfaces at Facebook or Google Docs. You basically create new pages or documents, and then have them published to the web.

But enough with the technicalities! As I said, there are many CMS out there – more than 100, in fact, as listed by Wikipedia.

Luckily, though, picking the best one is simple. There’s only one king on top of the mountain – and it’s WordPress.