So You Want To Create a Website Eh

Starting Your Website Build

Ok, i’m really pleased you’ve stepped into my office to read what i’m typing. Whatever your business, i’m a wordpress website coach and the first steps are easy :

1. Register your url – your web address  at https://www.ukreg.com/
2. Select website hosting – I recommend https://www.hostgator.com/
3. Use their quick install link to install WordPress – their guide is here
4. Create your email account on Hostgator – this is how to do that
5. Look on Theme Forest for a design (tip – click on wordpress themes > filter by best sellers; better support, less bugs), buy your design and download the zip file > upload to your wordpress and activate the recommended plugins.
6. Most themes will come with ‘demo data’ > install the demo data and your wordpress should look like the theme design you just purchased.
7. Edit the pages to replace the demo data with your own words and pictures – you might need to buy image editing software like Photoshop Elements to create your own images and optimise them for web. Otherwise the images are huuuuuuuge and affect your page load speed as well as giving you other problems. Not good.
8. Publish and maintain your website. Ideally at first blogging every day with quality content, including video if you can and distributing this on your social media channels. Here is what makes a good blog.
9. Advertise and promote your website. Grow your audience and sign up to marketing newsletters. Enthusiasm will get you started, but habit will keep you going. Learn everything you can about sales and marketing, both online and offline, by attending the many free events government business growth agencies put on. This is a good website to sign up to newsletters on marketing https://www.smartinsights.com/. Please let me know by commenting on this blog if you come across other marketing newsletters you can recommend.

Call me if you get stuck on any of these stages and I can coach you through them. I’ve been doing this a long time and i’m adamant the best websites have a great deal of input from the business owner, even if long term you decide to employ, or out source your website, marketing and PR. My 9 year old Jennifer is sat next to me building her first website. It’s easy with a coach for a mummy.

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Fill out my discovery form with whatever information you can and i’ll call you as soon as I can to offer help and advice with your website build.

“Only minutes after I first contacted Jess by e-mail she had called me back. Jess has an infectious enthusiasm in business that has certainly affected me positively in a short space of time. A talented, driven and reliable business woman who I would recommend to anyone.”

Andrew Widdison. Xactly | SaaS | EMEA | Sales. September 7, 2011, Andrew worked with Jessica but at different companies