Design Your Website With WordPress 2023 is a hands-on guide to teach you skills that will save you big designer/developer fees. WordPress is the world’s most popular way to build websites. I will also introduce you to an amazing and popular web design tool called Elementor.
What will it cost to build your own website?
Besides the cost of this book, a domain name costs about $12 a year and you can host your website on a server for about $100-$120 a year. (I will teach you how to do both.)
What exactly will you learn?
This book teaches you how to build a pro website from scratch - specifically, a functional website for a career coach. I believe the best way to learn site building is to create one for a specific use case. Rest assured, you don’t have to be a career coach to reap the benefits of the book! It is meant for any small business, solopreneur, blogger or professional.
You will learn to build a 5-page website with the following pages:
- A content-rich Home page
- An About page with text and images
- A Contact page so people can reach you
- A Services or Products page that displays your business offerings, both in text and supporting images
- A blog page (optional) - if you want one for your website
With this knowledge, you can build for yourself (with confidence!) any number of extra pages you want. Like a Testimonials page, a Page for each of your services or products, a Team page, a Projects page to showcase your work, etc.
What should you already know?
No prior technical knowledge is needed. There are lots of moving parts to building a site, though each one is easy in itself. Take it in tiny bits and it will all fall into place. WordPress was created for non-coders. It’s drag-and-drop all the way! And Elementor was created for non-designers. So, don’t worry if you are not a web designer. You will need a desktop or laptop, though. PC or Mac is fine. You can’t learn this stuff on a phone.
Among the things you will master from the book
- Buy domain name and hosting for your business
- Install WordPress at your host
- Learn about Elementor plugin (free version) and its design capability
- Design the About page using text and images
- Find royalty-free images to freely use on your website
- How to align text, choose fonts and colors
- Numerous screenshots to guide you
- Access to 26 SilentMoves videos on my site to show you the exact mouse clicks without distracting audio
- Design site-wide header and footer (including logo placement)
- How to create and stylize buttons
- Dummy content to download and use
- Create testimonial sections
- Make columns for content side by side
- Insert background and foreground images (and the difference between them)
- Display a functional contact form for visitors to get in touch with you
- Create a rich Home page with various sections linking to inside pages
- Create a blog (optional) and format blog posts
- Add both ‘Follow’ and ‘Share’ social media links
- How to insert videos in your site to make a point
- How to optimize images for use on the web (Hint: Hi-res images have to be compressed)
- Enable appointments on your site and connect with an external appointments app
- Install plugins for site safety, site speed and site backups
- How to test your finished website for speed so it loads fast
- And much more!
