Watch the video below and follow the Step by Step Beginer's Guide in creating Business Websites
Welcome sa step-by-step tutorial on creating a website! Whether you’re a beginner or have some experience with web development, this video will guide you through building websites from scratch. We’ll cover everything you need to know, from choosing a domain name and hosting provider to designing and publishing your site. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have the knowledge and confidence to create a professional-looking website that reflects your unique style and serves your needs. So let’s get started!
Basically, when choosing web hosting, there are many options and inclusions, but here are some of the most important factors to look for.
Hosting | Free SSL | Free Domain Name | Number of websites | Free Emails | Pricing /month | Discounted links |
1. Siteground | No | No | 1 | Unlimited | 373 | SiteGround |
2. GoDaddy | No | No | 1 | 0 | 169 | GoDaddy |
3. Bluehost | Yes | Yes | Unlimited | Unlimited | 304 | Bluehost |
4. Hostinger | Yes | Yes | 100 | 100 | 89 | Hostinger |
5. Hostgator | Yes | Yes | 5 | Unlimited | 195 | Hostgator |
3 Steps in Building a Successful Website
Step 1 | Get yourself a domain name & Hosting. | |
Step 2 | Set up your website. | |
Step 3 | Add products or contents |
Step ONE
Your Website needs a NAME and a HOME
Get your Domain Name and Web Hosting to Start Building
Domain Name
Domain name refers to the address that people will use to visit your site. In simple terms, ito yung pangalan ng website for example sa Facebook ay facebook.com, sa YouTube ay youtube.com, sa Google ay google.com. sa Lazada ay lazada.com.ph.
Web Hosting Service
Web hosting is where your website is stored. Hosting companies have large data centers filled with servers. It runs 24hours a day 7 days a week and anytime na may magvisit sa website ay pwede nila makita.
Here are the Basics needed to run a successful website. I recommend Hostinger Philippinesz
- 1 Free Domain Name
- 30-day money-back guarantee – Hostinger will return your payment if you are not happy with your website.
- 2 months free – This can be redeemed in your sign-up automatically your subscription will extend 3 months.
- Click Premium Plan with only 89 pesos per month.
- We can create up to 100 website and all SSL are included.
- We can always upgrade the plan if needed.
- I suggest to go with the 48 months to have the lowest cost upto 4 years..
- If you only need 1(one) website, the Premium plan is enough and also you can add another website without having to buy another hosting.
- Here you can see that we got an 80% Discount on our webhosting.
- click CONTINUE.
- For easier Login and account creation just click the Google signing in.
- These info will be used to log-in to your new hostinger account
- We can pay via Gcash since this is Philippines-based pricing
- Click Submit Payment
- This will direct us to Gcash payment system
Claim your free Domain Name
- Click “Check Availability”
- Click “Claim domain”
- As we can see, it is PHP 0.00/yr – this is our free domain name
Hostinger FEATURES
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- 24/7 Access to websites
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- Increased Performance (Up to 5x)
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- 100 Websites
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- 200 GB NVMe Storage
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- Daily Backups (₱1,020.00 value)
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- Unlimited Free SSL
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- Unlimited Bandwidth
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- Free Email
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- Free Domain (₱549.00 value)
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- Free CDN
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- Dedicated IP Address
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- eCommerce Features
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- 0% Transaction Fees
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- Security
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- Enhanced DDoS Protection
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- Web Application Firewall
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- Secure Access Manager
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- Free Domain WHOIS Privacy Protection (₱549.00 value)
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- 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee
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- 99.9% Uptime Guarantee
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- Global Data Centers
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- 24/7 Customer Support
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- Powerful Control Panel
Quick Tips on choosing a domain name
We have compiled some quick tips for thinking up a good domain name for your site.
What are your top 10 keywords?
Think about 10 keywords or terms that describe your website in the best possible way. When you have a good bunch of them, you can now then start to put them together, mix them up, and add prefixes and suffixes to create some really cool domain name ideas.
A Unique domain name is the way to go!
Don’t buy a name that will be confused to another website. Be unique, never buy a domain name that is simply the plural, hyphenated, or misspelled version of an already established website.
Go for dot-com available domain name
There is no shortage of extensions nowadays. But only a few are worth having. dot-com domain names are the most valuable and most important if you are going to be building a brand. If you want to target a worldwide audience with your site, go for .com, .site, .co, .org or .net.
Make it easy to Spell
Make it easy for people to find your site. Although people tend to find your site through a branded search in Google, it is still important to make your site easy to spell or type out.
Make it easy to remember
Keep your domain name memorable. World-of-mouth and search engines are both reliant on easy-to-remember domain names. You don’t want an amazing website that no one can ever remember to tell their friends about because they can’t remember the name of that site.
Short domain names go a long way
Short is great! especially if it’s easy to type and easy to remember. It looks better too in your marketing materials.
DO NOT USE.. Hyphens or Numbers!
Hyphens and numbers are not good when it comes to domain names! It makes it really difficult to give your domain name verbally and it fails the easy-to-remember and easy-to-type test.
Step 2
Setting Up Your WordPress Website & Making It Look Professional
So you have now your domain name and hosting and now it’s time to make your website function.
The first thing you need to do is install WordPress. It is as easy as installing an app on your mobile phone.
Pick a theme for your website. For this Guide, we will be using Astra. You can pick a theme of your choice if you like but to be able to follow this step-by-step guide, choose Astra Theme, You can change it anytime in the future.
WordPress will now be installed in your hosting account. It will only take less than 2 minutes for the installation to finish.
The final step in installing WordPress is to verify your email. Just go to your registered email then click the green button that says “verify”.
WordPress now is installed on your account. It’s that easy and we did it ourselves!
How to log in to your Website?
Login to your WordPress Dashboard. You can do this by typing your web address along with /login
Example: http://www.yourwebsite.com/login
Changing Website Themes
There are plenty of free themes to choose from in WordPress. To Change your Theme, from your WordPress dashboard go to Appearance -> Themes -> Add new.
How to Create A New Page In WordPress
Let’s say you want to create a Home Page, Products, Services, or About Us page on your site. All you have to do is…
1. In the WordPress dashboard Sidebar look for the section called Pages then go to the option Add New.
2. You then land on a screen that will probably look to you a lot like Microsoft Word. It’s very similar in function too. You can add text, images, video, shortcodes, and loads more. When you are done editing your new page, click on Publish.
How to add pages to your Menu
To show your new page in the top navigation bar of your WordPress website, you’ll need to do the following 3 easy steps.
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- Save your work. To make sure you don’t lose any of the content that you’ve created on your page, click Update.
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- In the Dashboard sidebar Click Appearance and then Customize.
3. It will take you to another settings page of your website
From here you can edit a lot of things on your website such as Logos, Typography, Colors, etc. Feel free to explore these features. Anything you change in setting on your sidebar, you can see in the right side of the screen.
To add your page to the navigation menu click Menu –> Main Menu –> Add Items. Drag and Drop options you want on your navigation menu and reorder it. Don’t forget to Click Publish.
How to Install A WordPress Plugin To Help You Get The Most Out Of The Platform
Plugins are extensions installed into WordPress to increase the capabilities of your website. They add extra features, usability, tools, and much more to your site.
Plugins can turn a normal website into an online shop in just minutes. Or it can help you get up to speed on your SEO for your site, forum, and just about everything else!
To install a plugin, head over to the “Plugin” section in the Dashboard menu and then select “Add New”. Use the search function to find the plugin you want for your site. Install and Activate.
There are over 30,000 plugins available.
As there are so many different WordPress plugins I’ll give you a few free plugins that I install on every single one of my websites:
Elementor – Drag and drop page builder. A plugin for making good-looking pages.
Step 3
Well done. You’re up and running with your domain name, hosting, WordPress install, and theme. Now it’s time to bring your site to life by creating content for it.
To create a page About Page, you will need to:
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- Click on the Pages which you will find on the left-hand side of your WordPress dashboard. Click on the Add New option underneath.
2. WordPress will then take you to a text editing page, similar to what you would use on Microsoft Word. Add a page title and hit PUBLISH. You can start typing your content under your title.
You can click Elemetor page builder for a more customized page.
This will take you to the Elementor page builder.
You can import a whole page and edit the contents of the imported page.
You can edit elements of your page easily with Elementor. Click the page element you want to edit and edit it on the Sidebar.
I personally use Elementor in designing stylish pages. You can explore Elementor and find out what creative pages you can do.
And that’s it! Well Done On Creating Your First Website!
Creating a website can be quite complicated and daunting for someone who has never learned how to code or had any experience with websites. This guide helps people to get online quickly, effectively and without the need of a web developer.
Creating Professional Emails Using Your Domain Name
When you have your own Domain Name and own Server/Hosting, aside from the website, you can also create your own professional emails with your own domain name instead of using “name@gmail.com” or name@yahoo.com” . For example “mark@yourwebsite.com” or “inquiry@yourwebsite.com”.
Go to Hositinger.com, and log-in to your account.
Log in with your registered email and password.
Create your professional Email account and start receiving and sending your emails with your own domain name.
Hope this help sa inyong mga business ka negosyo!
Best of luck mga ka-Let’s Go Negosyo!