How To Build A Professional Website Without Previous Experience or Tech Skills

So you need a website for your business? But you don't want to spend a fortune building one, or you're just getting started, and you're on a shoestring budget. This course is everything you need to go from a blank screen, to your own website in just a few hours.

There are plenty of free website builders, all have their limitations creatinvely, functionally and when it comes to scalling your business.

Buying domains and connecting them to hosting platforms, then connecting that up to your website may seem like crazy wizardry, but its really the easy part. Building websites is about learning the content management system, the thing that makes your website looks how it looks and does what it does.

If you're going to put in the time and effort to learn how to use a content management system, you may as well learn to use one thats become a global standard for building websites. WordPress has become the foundation for millions of websites, many of which you'll visit often. Because WordPress is used extensively by developers throughout the world, you'll have no trouble finding a developer who can tweak, further develop or maintain your website when you're ready to delegate the task.

You don't need to know all those techy acronyms, or have any previous experience. WordPress is a content management system with an interface designed specifically to remove the barrier to entry. No experience necessary. If you need all the bells and whistles you'll find an almost infinate array of ready made plugins to make your website do whatever you need it to do.

By the end of the course you'll understand the key components that make websites work. We'll walk you through buying and registering your domain name, how to connect it to a hosting platform, make it secure and setting up your content management system. Then we'll walk you through choosing a theme template, and how to start customising it, and how to get it polished. We'll guide you through some useful plugins, and show you where to find images, videos and sound, and to make your content look amazing.

Now its over to you, to create your content and share it with your audience.

Who knows, you may find that building websites is your thing!