How to make a website with hostgator - How to get wordpress on hostgator

How to make a website with hostgator - How to get wordpress on hostgator

 

How to make a website with hostgator - How to get wordpress on hostgator video transcript:

 

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In this video i'm going to show you how to make a website with hostgator

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Log into your cpanel

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Hostgator would of sent you a email with all your log in details

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Than go down the page

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Press quick install

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for your first website i recommend you choose wordpress

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because its so easy to use

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press wordpress

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than press continue

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before you do this you need to make sure your nameservers are pointing to your hosting account

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but i will leave that to another video

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but if you regsited through hostgator the nameservers will be set automatically

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just enter domain name here

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your email, blog title username

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first name, last name

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than press install now

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than here is your password for the admin press this link here

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which will bring you to a page like this

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username and password

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is on this page here

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than log in

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this is the wordpress admin

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to create a page press pages add new

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now this is very easy

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i will just show you some of the features inside here

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put some dummy text

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to make a word in bold press that

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to make it italicized press that

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to hyper link a word to a url you just press here

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type in the url could be a affiliate link or another page on your website

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put a title tick this if you want the link to open in a new window if not leave that box unticked

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than just press add link

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also press this here will show you the kitchen sink thats what its called

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to change colour of text press that

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this is underline

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to make a h1 heading press that which will make that all h1

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here you publish the page

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to add your own html code might be from a affiliate network press this here

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than you just simply pasted the code in their

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and if you dont know how to pasted the code in you just highlight code right click select copy

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than right click and pasted so thats the code in there

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now i'm just going to publish this page and show you what it looks like

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as you can see its pretty plain

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i will show you how to edit the theme which is the background here

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click on appearance than themes

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which will bring to a page like this this is the theme thats on the website at the moment

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press install themes

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you can search recent updated

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and the themes that are available

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these are free themes cause it says install now some of them might have a price but on this page their all free

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newest to install it its very easy just press install now

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than press activate

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than press visit site

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here is the site which all can be edited this is a post i will show you how to edit that

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go back to your wordpress admin

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select post all post

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than delete this post because this is a default wordpress puts on the site just press trash

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than press add new than write your title your contents

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press publish

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than press view post

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here is the post i made this is the title of the blog to change that i will show you and to change that i will also show you how to do that

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go back to your wordpress admin select settings than general

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site title is here and the tag line is here

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than just go down the page and press save changes

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than the title is here tag line is there

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if you ever get stuck with anything on wordpress there is thousands and thousands of video tutorials on youtube

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just search youtube or search google.com

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or leave a comment below and i will try and help you as best as i can Thankyou I hope you enjoyed this video how to make a website with hostgator

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type in the url could be a affiliate link or another page on your website