Build a Small Business Website Using Wordpress

Build a Small Business Website Using Wordpress

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  USING WORDPRESS Sign Upfor a Wordpress account at www.wordpress.com.
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  Answer a couplequestions. Define your business and purpose for building the site.
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  Skip picking atheme. We’ll come back to this later. There are 10’s of thousands of Wordpress templates to choose from. We’ll find a better one later. Pick a temporary domain. This will be your test site until we launch. It will be found at yourawesomesite.wordpress.com Pick a plan. Let’s just use the free plan for now. If you’d like, feel free to select a paid plan. The next steps are the same.
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  Create your account. Prettystandard, enter your email, username and create a password. Don’t forget to confirm your email address after you registered your account.
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  Follow the walkthrough Thistakes just a minute and walks you through features and how to use the dashboard.
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  Let’s Pick aTheme As mentioned earlier, there are a ton of themes to choose from. If you’d like a premium theme, check out themeforest.com, mojothemes.com or just use the search function within Wordpress. We’re going to use the free, responsive theme, Goran.
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  Start Editing You shouldhave already laid out your content and have your photos and copy ready to add. Select the blue icons to start editing. Change the header photo, page name and copy for your page.
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  Designate your Homepage. Let’s make that About page the new home page. Select the Static Front Page option on the left. On the next screen select A Static Page, then select About from the dropdown. *We’ll walk through setting up your Blog later so leave the Posts Page as is for now. Now let’s add some more pages…
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  Add Pages Since theAbout and Contact pages already exist (you just need to edit them) let’s add the Blog and Gallery pages for your Blog and job photos. This theme also comes with a Testimonials builder as well! Check that out when you get a chance. X out of the current editor back to your dashboard. From here click the Add button next to the Pages tab.
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  Add a GalleryPage Walk through the options on the left hand nav, starting with adding a Featured Image, then add your photos on the page. Click the Add Media option and upload your photos. Include any text that talk about the job and how happy your customers turned out!
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  Add a BlogPost Keep your customers and potential customers up to date with the latest news and updates from your company with a blog. To get started click the Blog Posts tab on the left hand side. Enter a Subject and your content in the text box. Walk through the options on the left hand side, then click Publish when you’re ready.
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  Your Blog isLive Congratulations! Now let’s get your Blog in the main menu so your customers can find it to start reading and sharing your content.
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  Add Your Blogor Page to the Menu Back in your dashboard select Menu on the left. Then click the + on any page.
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  Add Your Blogor Page to the Menu (cont.) Click the Add New Menu Item option, then select Page. Click the Blog option, then the Add Item button.
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  Publish Once finished, patyourself on the back because you just launched your site. Go back and edit your content, play with some of the extras and get to know your new Wordpress site.