So you’ve decided that a website is a good idea! I commend you for that. Think of your website as the foundation of your online business.
Here at Affiliate Resource Centre, we want to show you the fastest and easiest way to build a website using WordPress.
WordPress is by far the most popular open-source content management system (CMS), that offers various hosting plans.
Once you get that beautiful website up and running, you will have taken your first step towards actually realising your goals and dreams of being an online entrepreneur.
In this tutorial on the easiest way to build a website, we’ll be referring you to Wealthy Affiliate, the platform where the fastest website builder can be found. It will literally do the work for you in about half a minute.
You can create a Free Starter Account with Wealthy Affiliate and no credit card is required.
We’ll now give you an exact breakdown of this post and then get rolling with our guide to an easy, fast method to set up a website.
The Steps Covered in this Tutorial on a Fast and Easy Way to Build a Website:
These are the steps that we’ll be taking you through in this walk-through:
- Create your Wealthy Affiliate Free Account
- Navigate to the ‘Websites’ drop-down menu
- Select ‘Site Builder’
- Select ‘Free Domain’
- Choose a domain name for your website
- Enter a title for your website
- Click ‘Build my website’
Step 1 – Create your Free Membership with Wealthy Affiliate
Simply go to Wealthy Affiliate, put your email in, and create your free account. This will only be a starter account but with it, you will still be able to build 1 free website.
The link to Wealthy Affiliate will lead you to this page:
Step 2 – Navigate to ‘Site Builder’
Once you are inside Wealthy Affiliate, you will see a screen that looks like this:
There will be a welcome video from Kyle, the founder of Wealthy Affiliate and among other things, he will advise you to go through the first free classes before you build your first website.
But the second drop-down menu at the top will say ‘Websites.’
The top left corner will show the WA logo, then ‘Home,’ ‘Training,’ ‘Websites,’ etc. You need to click on the Websites tab to get the drop-down menu to appear as shown in the next image below:
Next, you’ll be clicking on Site Builder as shown in the image, underlined in red.
Step 3 – Select Free Domain
When you click on Site Domain you’ll be taken to another page where you will need to choose what domain you want.
There is the option for a Free Domain which you will click on next. The other two options which are ‘A Domain I Own’ and ‘Register a Domain’ are only available with a WA Premium membership.
Note: you will get a Free .com domain (first year free) if you upgrade your WA membership from a free account to a Premium account within 7 days of signing up to WA.
Assuming you are not upgrading at this point, you will click on Free Domain next as shown below:
Step 4 – Choose a Domain Name for your Site
Once you click on Free Domain, it will prompt you to enter a domain name for your site.
The free domain will end in ‘siteRubix.com’ but later, you can always change that to a ‘.com,’ a ‘.net’ or a ‘.org’ domain which you will need to pay for, usually for about $14.00 per year.
In the example below I decided that my domain name would be ‘storytellingandpublishing.’ This is then followed by ‘siterubix.com’ because it is a free domain hosted by Wealthy Affiliate.
Step 5 – Enter a Title for your Website
Your title doesn’t have to be exactly the same as the domain name, or even the same at all, though it’s good practise to try to have them both matching if possible, but again, that doesn’t matter so much.
The next step will be to enter your website title; what people see before clicking through to your homepage for example.
In this example, I named my site ‘Story Telling & Publishing.’ This tells my viewers that this site will be focused on story telling and the art of publishing fiction.
Step 6 – Build your Website!
Now all you need to do is hit that green button which you can see in the picture above which says ‘Build my website.’
In no time, you will have your own WordPress website set up which you can then customise, review settings, start adding first pieces of content to and all that fun stuff!
Once your site is built, Congratulations! You’ve just taken a significant and vital step on your journey towards a wildly profitable online business.
Further Steps
If you want some content on niche selection, I have a recommended article on that right here:
Niche Selection | Why it Matters and Useful Resources
Finding your niche is something you should do before you create a website.
Wealthy Affiliate is one of the top platforms, acclaimed by many as the very best for training on how to become a successful online entrepreneur.
All resources and training are provided in their Premium membership but you can always test-drive the system for an unlimited time and make your first steps into a huge world: internet marketing!