Well…it’s been another interesting week.
And I would like to end it on a positive note for you by delivering on my promise to show you how to create a site that works brilliantly for you in 2020 and way beyond.
Why is this so important?
Because your site is just that…yours.
It’s your stable home in an online world where things can change in an instant. A bit like the wider world, as we all know.
Just as you would with your physical home, you want to make it as inviting as you can while also ensuring it works for you.
So let’s take a look at how best you can do that and I am going to confess here to being a WordPress fan simply because it is the most beginner-friendly way to build a site.
It also does not restrict you to one particular platform (I am talking WordPress.org sites here hosted on your own choice of hosting).
Now, I realise some people disagree and would rather stick pins in their eyeballs than build a WordPress site.
You may be one of those people.
But before you reach for that pin cushion, I am also giving you other suggestions so you can remain puncture-free.
Let’s start with that WordPress site and this excellent, step by step tutorial for complete beginners and the more advanced alike:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/guides/
There’s also this great guide here which goes into some extra detail:
Whichever guide you choose to follow, remember that there will inevitably be affiliate links (theirs, not mine), especially to hosting and domain providers because these are a good source of affiliate income (top tip).
I told you last week how I have used Namecheap for years and I like Hostgator’s cloud hosting (the cloud part is important). That’s because it’s fast, secure and cheap.
But please, if you want to check it out, make sure it’s the cloud hosting you’re getting and not the standard variety – I recommended it to a friend last week and she signed up for the wrong version which, IMHO, is inferior.
There you go…just saved you wading through lots of links although no doubt many will disagree with my choices there too, as you are perfectly entitled to do. Each to their own.
Now, building a site is all very well but making it look the way you want is another thing altogether. And that’s before we even start talking content.
I use premium themes on my sites but there are plenty of good no cost options around and two I am very happy to recommend are:
OceanWP: https://oceanwp.org/
Astra: https://wpastra.com/
Both of those have premium versions but are robust and full-featured even in their basic versions.
If you want a landing page more than a site with multiple pages then take a look at Hestia, an excellent one-page theme:
I promised you other options and here is a handy round-up of 15 of them:
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/free-website-builders
Your TED talk this week is on creative problem solving in the face of extreme limits…or how to do more with less:
A few updates for you – I am finally ending the earlybird on Extraordinary Emails tonight at midnight PST and I am working on something which I am very excited about as I believe it will help you enormously right now.
That will be released later this week so stay tuned.
My Anxiety PLR package is still available on earlybird and will be until the end of this week as I think that’s fair warning.
The links for those are:
