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It ‟ s free. Yep. Completely free, which saves you several hundred bucks right off the bat. Anyone can use it; you don ‟ t need to know much about coding( I still can ‟ t, to this day, design even a simple website using code alone) It ‟ s so much quicker to build a good looking professional site. Oh sure, for pure speed nothing beats Xsite pro for quick site. But if you want to make it visually appealing( important) then you ‟ d need to design headers in Photoshop etc. Whereas with Wordpress, all you need do is upload a new „ Theme ‟ – Of which there are THOUSANDS available to suit all types of site.
A note to the more experienced guys who are set in their ways: Look, I swore by own site creation tools too( Xsite pro for me) but just like I did, you ‟ re going to have to wake up and smell the bacon!
Wordpress is the future. Sure, the first few weeks were a pain and it hasn ‟ t quite got as many options as the traditional creation suites. But, the search engines love it and the fact is that if you ‟ re NOT using wordpress then you ‟ re at a serious disadvantage.
Anyway, we ‟ ve established what platform our sniper sites will be built with. What next?
Installing Wordpress
Note: Read through this chapter first. Then watch video four to see exactly how to do install a wordpress blog and themes / plugins...
Wordpress works a little differently to most website creation tools. Rather than install a program on your pc, you install it on your web server and to access it you have to enter a username and password. This is actually one of my gripes with wordpress, because it means you can ‟ t edit your site unless you ‟ re connected to the internet. The plus side is, of course, that you can access and edit your sites from any computer in the world.
The reason wordpress works this way is because it ‟ s actually a blogging platform. Even though most people use it to create normal websites, it was originally created for blogging.
So, here ‟ s how to install it. Note that I ‟ m going to presume that you ‟ re hosting has CPanel because most hosts do nowadays. But if it doesn ‟ t for some reason then you can follow the setup instructions on the wordpress website here.
Step # 1
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