How to create a website

Step one  

choose the best website building platform

Before you start worrying about color schemes and domain names, you’ve got to decide what platform you’re going to build your website with.

The most popular of which is wordpress.

Step two

Choose a Domain Name & Web Hosting for Your Website

To get a new website online, you’re going to need two things:

• A domain name (a web address like yoursitename.com)
• Hosting (a service that connects your site to the internet)

The WordPress platform itself is free, but a domain name and hosting will cost you around 2500-15,000

Owning your own domain name looks far more professional than having your site on someone else’s domain like (yoursite.blogspot.com)

You can get and also host your domain name in this site

https://www.whogohost.com/
While choosing a domain name one should take the below into consideration
1. If you’re making a website for your business, your domain name should match your company name. For example: YourCompanyName.com

2. If you’re planning to set up a website for yourself, then YourName.com can be a great option.

Domain names usually end with .com, .org or .net, .ng

Step three

Setting up your WordPress website

The next thing to do to get your website running after buying your domain name and setting up your hosting is to install WordPress on your domain.

Installing WordPress

There are two possible ways to install WordPress, one MUCH easier than the other.

1. 1-Click-installation

Almost every reliable and well-established hosting company has integrated 1-click-installation for WordPress, which makes getting going a snap.
If you signed up with whogohost or any other similar hosting company, you should find your “1-click-installation” in your account control panel.
Here are the steps you should follow

1. Log in to your hosting account.
2. Go to your control panel.
3. You will see a “WordPress” icon.
4. Choose the domain where you want to install your website.
5. Click on the “Install Now” button and you should get access to your NEW WordPress website.

2. Manual install

If for some odd reason (some hosting companies don’t have one-click-install for WordPress) you don’t have the possibility to install WordPress automatically, look this manual guide below:

Installing WordPress Manually

Choosing a Theme/Template for your site

Once you have installed WordPress to your domain, you’ll see your site, (empty though):
The next thing would be to choose a theme for your site
There are thousands of awesome, professionally designed themes you can choose from and customize for a site that’s all your own.

How to access the numerous free themes

1) Log into your WordPress dashboard
If you’re not sure how, type in: http://yoursite.com/wp-admin (replace “yoursite” with your domain).
2) Access FREE themes
Once you’re in the dashboard, you will have access to over 1000 free themes! Just look along the side bar for “Appearance”, then click “Themes”. Select any one of your choice

After selecting a theme you can now start adding contents to your site with the create new page option, you can also edit an already created/published page with the edit. After doing all the above,  the rest are self explanatory when you see them you just click on it and fill it with the necessary information. (services, about me etc). 

If after reading this steps you are still confused then i wll advice you to save up and pay a professional to create a website for you