How to create a website for free!
The quick guide!
For a detailed guide go here: How to create a website for free.
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- Here is a quick undetailed guide on how to create a website for your business for free!
- Sign up to InfinityFree.
- When you are in Your Accounts, select create account.
- When you are creating the
account, select subdomain and make any subdomain.
This will not be visible to other users. - Create the account.
- The account will pend. Wait 10 minutes, then refresh it should be active by then.
- Go to the control panel of the account.
- Click Softaculous app installer.
- Click WordPress.
- Click Install Now.
- Fill in all the details, then press install.
- The site will install.
- Once installed head to your site’s admin page:
- Type the login that you made earlier.
- Change theme, text, colours, to how you like it.
- Add pages.
- Once you are happy with the site, go to plugins on the left.
- Search for the plugin called Simply Static.
- Install it.
- Activate it.
- Once activated on the left at the bottom you should see Simply Static.
- Click it.
- Select Generate Static Files.
- The setup will generate the files, when you see Click here to download click that.
- A file will download onto your device.
- Sign up to Netlify App.
- Once you are at the home page, go to the sites tab.
- Drag the folder you just downloaded onto there and wait for it to upload.
- Go into the domains tab on Netlify.
- Click Add or register domain.
- Type your domain.
- It will ask about DNS records, click continue.
- It will say the Name Servers leave that tab open and, open a new tab:
- Once uploaded, you can get a free domain name from Freenom.
- Go into the nameservers of your Freenom domain and change it to the ones Netlify gave you in step 31.
- Click Save.
- Wait for the name servers to change.
- Next, go back to the sites tab in Netlify, select your site.
- Select Domain Settings.
- Click Add domain alias.
- Type your Freenom domain.
- Click save.
- Scroll down from Custom domains, you should see HTTPS.
- Click get a Certificate. Netlify will generate you a SSL Certificate and install it for you.
- Now, kick back and relax.
Let the website propagate and become live in its own time.
You can now do website SEO, steps here: What is website SEO and how do we get it right?
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