How To Build A Free Website Omid Hosseini August 2016 003 Without knowing programming or anything else (WordPress) 1 Copyright notice Copyright notice Omid Hosseini asserts his moral right as the author of this publication. All rights reserved. Don’t use this book for illegal activity. 2 Dear reader Dear reader I am Omid Hosseini, and the book you are reading is the first book I have ever written in English. Thank you for choosing it. In this book you can learn how to build a free website. Don’t worry, it’s very easy! You don’t need to know programming or anything else. You only must do as this book says. Do it step by step and you will have a free website. Enjoy it. I try my best but if you find any mistakes or problems please tell me. I ’ll fix them in next revision. You can download my books for free from my blog. So, please download latest revision. My blog: blog.y70.ir My forum: forum.y70.ir 3 Dear reader Contents Copyright notice .......................................................................................................................................... 1 Dear reader ................................................................................................................................................. 2 Contents ........................................................................................................................................................ 3 1) Download the latest revision ................................................................................................................ 4 2) Host and Domain ................................................................................................................................... 8 3) WordPress ............................................................................................................................................ 14 4) Getting started with WordPress ......................................................................................................... 37 5) Tell the world about your website ...................................................................................................... 49 6) Monetize your site ............................................................................................................................... 53 7) Epilogue ................................................................................................................................................ 68 4 1) Download the latest revision 1) Download the latest revision In every revision, I fix previous mistakes. So let’s download the latest revision. If this book is the latest revision go to next chapter. Go to blog.y70.ir . Find “CATEGORIES”. Then click “How to build a free website”. 5 1) Download the latest revision Find latest revision and click on the download link. Click “Download”. 6 1) Download the latest revision Click “No thanks, continue to download”. Save the zip file. 7 1) Download the latest revision Extract it. Then open it. 8 2) Host and Domain 2) Host and Domain For build a free website we need a free host, free domain, and free publishing platform. Go to www.y70.ir .In this page click Signup for Free Hosting. 9 2) Host and Domain Fill the form. Note : your username is used in your free domain. For example if you choose “ my friend” for username then your domain will be something like “ my friend.y70.ir”. I choose “ mysite ”. 10 2) Host and Domain Fill the form then click register. If your username be available then you can see this page, if not, you must click back and try something else. For activate your account, go to your email address. Open activation email and click the activation link. 11 2) Host and Domain You have to save next page or take a note of the details because you need the details for your site. This is my “C ontrol panel username ” 12 2) Host and Domain Go to www.y70.ir . Click “Login”. For Username use your “ Control panel username ” . Then type your password and click “Log in”. 13 2) Host and Domain Click “No, I’m fine. Thanks!” Now, you have a free host with a free domain. 14 3) WordPress 3) WordPress Go to blog.y70.ir . Click “Download WordPress”. Download and save the zip file. 15 3) WordPress Go to www.y70.ir . Click Login. For Username use your “Control panel username”. Then type your password and click “Log in”. 16 3) WordPress In your control panel go to “MySQL Databases”. Type something and click “Create Database”. (I type my name) Your database is created. Please make a note of your database detail. You need it later. 17 3) WordPress Click back. In your control panel go to “Online File Manager”. Go to “htdocs”.(click on “htdocs”.) 18 3) WordPress C lick “Upload”. Click “Browse” button under the “Archives (zip, tar, tgz, gz)”