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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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