
How to Create a Website for Free
Today we will tell you How to Create a Website for Free. Everyone wants to have their own website for many types of business and earning money online, but to create a professional website it becomes a little costly, and a startup businessman can’t consider the cost of the making of a website. Now, after reading this article, you will make any kind of website. So, don’t miss this article out and read it till the end.
Create a Domain
So the 1st step is to pick a name for your website. A name for the website should be unique and also represent your business. After Selecting a name, go to Freenom and search for the name you have selected. After this, you will get many options to select a domain, as you want to create a free website so you can’t get (dot)com domain. Select any free domain available. You might select (dot)tk because it can also rank in google perfectly.
Get Free Hosting
Now, you already have picked a name that is available. Once you get the name, you can go to the next step is to get hosting. Hosting is the place where your website’s files will be stored, Domain is the name of your website. So getting hosting, search for Free Hosting in google, where you can get many free hosting for a certain time including Google, Amazon, Atlassian. So let’s, click, get started’. Now enter the hosting provider dashboard and add the domain to the hosting.
Install WordPress
Now, after doing all the steps, you will need this to log in to WordPress. Enter your name and password and click install. Okay! So we install WordPress! Now, let’s click get started’. and then click on thanks… and okay. Okay, so this is your WordPress Dashboard! Now, from here, you’ll be able to control your website. Now if you want to access the (WordPress) dashboard anytime again, you just go to your website address and type \login Okay.
So, once you reach the WordPress dashboard, this means your website is LIVE. So checking that let’s go to our website address and press enter Now as you can see… our website is LIVE! So! This is how, the default site, looks like. So next, In order to easily edit our website, we will install a new theme. So the new theme is called” Astra” So to install the theme, let’s click themes. now click ‘add new’ and search for… Astra. So we will install this theme. Just click install. and click activate.
Okay! So it activates the theme. Next, we will install a plugin that comes with this theme. So by installing the plugin you can easily customize this theme. So installing that plugin, let’s go to plugins. And then click ‘add new’. Now we need to search for a Plugin called ‘Astra’ and then install this plugin. So click install. and then click activate.
So the Astra Sites plugin is now installed! Now, because of this plugin, we will get lots of Designs for your website, which you can choose and then apply it to your site. So seeing those disconsolate’s click see the library. Now, before selecting any design, Just click the elementor. this will make it easier for you to edit the design So click elementor and now you can choose any design you like.
Create Elements
Once you’ve got the design into your site, you can now go to the next step which is to Edit the content. So, to edit any page of your site. You just have to go into the page and click Edit with Elementor. So let’s say you want to edit the homepage, you just click home, and then click “edit with elementor”. And now we will go to the editing section.
So let’s say you want to change the text, you just select the text, and then type anything you want, and now if you want to change the text on this button. You just click here and change the text on this button here. So the same way, you can edit any text you want on this page Just select the text, and then type.
So this works throughout the website. Now if you want to change this image, you just click it. Select the image here. And drag & drop your image. So once you’re done with the changes, you can save the page by clicking “save”. And it will save all your changes. Now you can view the page by clicking here and then click view page. So, you can see that all our changes are here.
Site Editing
Okay, so now you can edit any page of your site! Next, we will see how you can change the Header or the footer area of your website. Now by using elementor you will able to change this part of your website. But if you want to change the area of the header. You can do it from a customize option. So let’s go to customize. Now we can see there are some “Blue icons”. Now if you want to change the logo, just click on the “Blue Icon” and you can change the Logo here.
Now the same way we will change the menu section by clicking these icons. So everything will be edited by using these blue icons. and this will be the same in the footer area. So let’s say if you want to change the text. Click this blue icon and type anything you want. Once you are done with the changes, just click “publish” and it will publish them on the site. Now let’s close this and go back to our site. Okay! So we saw how to edit the header & footer area. Now, what if you want to add a new page? It’s very simple. All you need to do is, you need to go into new, and click page.
Now let’s say you want to create a service page for your website, you need to first enter a title. and now to create a page, just click edit with “Elementor”. So now, it will take us to the blank section and now we have options to create your page. You can either use these elements are over here. and then drag and drop them into this area. So for example; if you want to add a heading section, you can drag and drop this element from here. and then enter your text, and to add an image you can drag & drop this element. Now the other way to create a page is by using templates.
Because templates are ready-made pages, which we can import into our site. So let’s click “add template” and you will find a lot of designs here. Now if you want to use any designs, click it. See how it looks like. And if you like it, just click insert to get it into your page. And now you can see that we’ve got the design into our page. Now if you want to change anything on this page, just by selecting it and typing anything you want. This is how it works. Once you are done with the changes, click save and view page. That’s it, guys! This how you can add new pages to your site. So now we know, How to create a website.
We hope you like this article How to Create a Website for Free. So if you’re ready to make your own website, don’t wait for it, just create it to grow your business. I will see you in the next article