Easy Way on How to Create a Website and Earn Money

Before creating a website, there are major things you should have in place. This is the infrastructure needed to set up a website:

Domain Name
Hosting
Security – Example: SSL Certificates for security
Website Theme

Quick Help:

How to Get a Domain Name, Hosting and SSL Certificate
What is a domain name?
How to host your Domain name

Steps on how to create a website – Content Management Systems ( Example : WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, Shopify)

1. Buy a domain name:– The domain name is the name of your company or product that your audience types in the URL bar and search on the internet. The domain name is usually a unique website address that is not shared with any other sites on the internet, thus identifying your brand or company.

Buying a domain name gives you the right to use the domain name for the agreed period usually from 1yr. However, there are many types of domain name extensions such as: .co.ke, .com, .org, .net, .biz, .me. The domain name is chosen as per the intentions of the owner, as well as considering localization, which impacts the SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

An Example of a Domain: www.tekwalks.com. – Here, Tekwalks.com is the domain name. Tekwalks reflect the brand and company name.

Hosting Providers where to buy a good domain name:

Truehost
Tekwalks
Hostinger
Bluehost

Quick Help:

What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
Learn more about the Structure of a Domain name
What to Consider While Choosing a Domain Name?

2. Hosting your domain and Website– This is where the resources of your websites are stored, Web hosting gives you the space where files of your website are reserved, with security incorporated to prevent unauthorized access. These files includes, Admin files, Text Plugins, Uploads ie, Images, Videos, Documents.

NB: After buying the domain, you need to set the DNS that point to your IP Address; this is sometimes done by your hosting service provider.

More frequently, people will buy their hosting space where they bought their domain name. However, one is not limited because you can buy a domain and hosting space, each from different hosting providers.

The major feature you get after buying a host space

Storage space
Admin Control Panel (C-Panel)
Webmail
File manager
Band width

3. Website Security – after buying a host, it’s necessary to enable a firewall to deny access to unauthorized users or even bots. Install and configure security certificates as SSL certificates – a digital certificate that enables encrypted connections and authenticates a website’s identity using protocols such as HTTPS rather than HTTP.

Quick Help

How to install and configure the SSL Certificates
What is a protocol?
How to Enhance Website Security

4. Installing the Website Theme: The website theme gives you a skeleton template of how you should design your website to reflect your brand while considering the user experience. It entails all the style elements, color schemes and layout. The theme to be installed here will depend on the website you want to create.

Other themes are readily made just by importing its content and waiting for the content upload. There are different categories of themes, which include ecommerce themes, Bog themes, technology themes, donation themes and charity themes depending on what you want to deliver to your audience.

After installing the theme, you will then publish the theme to set your website live to be crawled by search engines like Google and Bing.

Quick Help

How to install a theme in Content Management Systems (WordPress, Joomla, Magento, Shopify)
What to consider while choosing a good theme
How to make a website rank top in Google.