How to Create a Website with Bluehost in Simple Steps
Owning a website is a dream of many web
entrepreneurs. Now, if you are fond of the online world and if you want a
website of your own, you are at the right place as we are going to discuss the
procedure of creating a website. The procedure includes buying domain from
Godaddy, hosting from Bluehost and installation of Wordpress.
Domain Registration with Godaddy
First thing to do is go to the official web
portal i.e. godaddy[dot]com. You will find a ‘Search’ box in the middle of the
webpage using which you need to search for an appropriate domain name that is
available for your business.
You can search your domain name under various
extensions such as .com, .net, .in, .org, etc. Now, if you do not find a domain
name available with a particular extension, godaddy provides you suggestions of
the same domain name with different extensions.
If you are lucky enough, you will get your
desired domain name available along with your desired extension. If not, you
will have to search till you get an available domain name that suits your
business along with the extension that you desire.
When you’ve got your domain name, click on ‘Add’
and when its added, you need checkmark ‘Only Domain’ option followed by a click
on the ‘Add’ tab below. Next, click on ‘Continue to Checkout’ that is situated on
the right. On the next window, you will be asked with ‘What you want to do with
your Domain’ and here, you do not have to do anything except clicking on ‘Continue.’
Next, as shown in the picture below, select the
‘term’ for your domain and then click on ‘Proceed to Checkout.’
Next, if you have an account with godaddy,
simply Sign and if not, click on ‘Continue’ under New Customers panel. With
this, you get into the Billing information page where you need to fill up all
the details.
Fill all the blank spaces with the appropriate details.
Scroll down the page to check and fill all the
Billing details such as Credit/Debit/Prepaid Card followed by your Credit card
number, Security Code, Name on Card and others.
Read the Terms of Service and Registration
Agreement documents and then click on ‘Checkout Now’ to conquer your domain.
Hosting with Bluehost
Follow the instructions
below to get hosting for your domain from Bluehost.
2. On the middle of the
webpage, you will find a ‘Sign Up Now’ tab in green color. Click on it to get
access to the hosting menus of Bluehost.
3. On the next webpage,
you will find two blank spaces under ‘I Need a Domain Name’ and ‘I Have a
Domain Name.’ Enter the domain name you
just bought from godaddy in the blank under ‘I Have a Domain Name’ just as I
have entered “bharatwebactivities.com” in the picture below.
4. Congratulations! You are
going to Sign Up on the next webpage that comes up. You will find several
blanks under the Account Information panel and you need to fill those blanks
with the appropriate terms like your first name, last name, business name,
country, address, phone number, email, etc.
5. Scroll, down and
choose the package and service type you want to host your domain with. Do this
carefully and go through the packages such as Pro package, Virtual Private
Server and Dedicated Server.
7. Finally, the Billing
Information panel. This is something important and you need to fill these
carefully. First, fill the ‘Card type’ such as ‘Visa’ and then your ‘Credit
Card number,’ ‘expiration date’ and signature.
8. Read the documents
below such as Terms and Conditions, Cancellation Policy, Privacy Statement,
etc. Then checkmark the option and this depicts that you obeyed to all the
rules and regulations of Bluehost. When you are done, click on ‘next’ with
which you are done with your hosting.
Installing WordPress on Bluehost
If you are not doing
this for the first time, you won’t have any problem using the cPanel hosting of
Bluehost. But if you are new to this, follow the guide below.
1. Now, you have not purchased
the domain from Bluehost, you have purchased it from godaddy and so you will
have to change the NS to Bluehost nameservers which are - ns1.Bluehost.com and ns2.Bluehost.com
2. Once you are done, you
can initiate the installation of WordPress on Bluehost hosting. First,
enter your domain name and password to login to your Bluehost cPanel
account.
3. You will get two site
builder scripts - Simple scripts and WordPress. You can use any of the two
start installation but it would be simple to use Simple
scripts. So, click on ‘Simple
scripts’ under BH cPanel of the site builder.
4. Click on ‘WordPress’
which takes you to the Wp install script page where you need to click on
‘Install.’
5. Now, you will be on
the Settings of Simple scripts where you have to configure the full WordPress
installation on Bluehost.
6. Select the WordPress
Version from the drop down menu.
7. You’ve got two
options - install Wp with www and without www as prefix. You can better install
it without the prefix to have a short name.
9. The next thing to do is install some
pre-configures themes and plugins and this you should begin from scratch. Install
the theme and plugins that you would like to use.
10. Finally, you need to agree to the license
agreement and then click on ‘complete’ and with this, WordPress will be
installed and your website will be ready.
Remember to delete comments and sample posts while at the same time change permalinks and make some necessary configurations and settings.
Remember to delete comments and sample posts while at the same time change permalinks and make some necessary configurations and settings.
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