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How To Initially Set Up Your Website  By
Guest AuthorAll right beginners pay attention and I'll instruct you "How To Set Up A Web Page Free"!!! There are a lot of sites out there that make you believe that they are going to give you free website or free web addresses or free something or the other. What you don't understand is that once you have given them your name and e-mail address, they have you on their list and you will get bombarded with stuff they want you to buy. I have seen sites out there that promote free website designs and guess what? When you begin entering your personal information to open your account, they ask you for your billing information! For what! Some of these so called free software websites are paying as much as $8000.00 per day on pay per click advertising. Just how to you think they pay for that? If that doesn't get your attention - It Should. But let me show you there is a way to get a website online absolutely free and without any strings attached. There probably is a little learning curve involved, but hey, you should know how to do this anyway. So let me teach you one step at a time how this is done. Step #1. Go to Wordpress.com and open up an account - it is free! Now before you go too far, you will have to have a domain name. The reason you need a domain name is that is the address (ie the URL) where your website will reside. Ok, I lied, there is a little cost involved in obtaining a Domain Name. I know that you can get a domain name from most hosting sites for about $10.00 per year. GoDaddy and HostGator are two that I use and recommend because they are very reasonable and very reliable. You need to own your own domain name and have your own site hosted by a reliable hosting service. Ok it costs a few dollars per month to maintain, however if you are going to do business on the internet, it is vital. Go with the minimum charges to begin, as you can upgrade later if needed. Step #2. Once have your own hosted domain name, you are ready to go back to wordpress and get started. I use GoDaddy as my server so I will show you how to install "Wordpress" in the Hostgator back office. Go to your domain (http://yourdomainname.com) and add forward slash cpanel. (http://www.yourdomainname.com/cpanel) Scroll down to Software/Services category and click on a program called Fantastico De Luxe. Once inside Fantastico, then click on " wordpress" . Open it up and locate the domain that you want to install it on from the drop down menu. If this is your first time there will be only the domain name that you set up. Leave the "install in directory" blank as you want to install it in the root directory of your domain. Fill in the user name and password. I use "admin" for a user name. Fill in other info and click "install" wordpress then "finish". Voila! You now have a website. Right now it is a pretty basic website but we will change that in a few minutes. Test out what all it will do Next scroll down to the "Meta" category and click "log-in". After you have entered your user name and password it will take you to the back office of your wordpress site called Dashboard. We'll come back and change the look and feel of your website by adding a new theme and some pluggins in a minute, but first we need to upload some files to your site. Step #3. Uploading and transferring files to your website using "filezilla" a FTP or file transfer protocall software program. Open your domain back office (cpanel) http://www.yourdomainname.com/cpanel and under the files folder look for the the "FTP Accounts" icon. Create a new ftp account by entering a user name and password, leave the "directory box" blank and keep "unlimited" in the quota box. Click Create FTP Account. Store the info that shows up when your new account is created as you will need it in a minute. You will need a ftp software program to operate the transferring of files and photos and videos to and from your website. The program that I use is called "Filezilla". Go to http://filezilla.com and download the "filezilla Client" program to your desktop. It is a free program that is very easy to use. Download the program and then double click the Icon on your desktop to open it. Fill in the required information and your are all set to transfer files to and from your new website. Continue reading this article.
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