In the previous lesson, you learn how to build your website by using tradition method, today we are continuing next lesson and will give you step-by-step guide to help you get your first genesis to success make money site’s installation done.
The first thing you need to do is click on the ‘New Installation’ icon that will transfer you to the main installation information page as shown below (I will still use the same example, boxerdogtraining):
At the top of the page,
(1) will be the main domain name, below which you have the option of choosing a sub-directory of your site to install the WordPress
(2) Because in this case, you want to install the software on the main BoxerDogTrainingExpert.com site, you would leave this box empty.
Next, you need to create an Administration username and password (3 and 4), after that you move onto the ‘Base configuration’. The ‘Admin nickname’ that you choose for yourself
(5) is the name that will appear as the author every time you add new information or content to your site, with the e-mail address
(6) being the one to which any queries or comments that are submitted to your site by e-mail.
Next, you give the site a name (7) and a ‘byline’ that will appear underneath that name at the top of your WordPress page (8).
Finally, click the ‘Install WordPress’ button (9) and that is the installation essentially complete.
Using the information from the previous screen shot, you now have a site that looks something like this:
Yea, the look is plain and basically little more than functional, but from time being, at least you have a site that is live and published on the net.
The next step is to change the appearance of your site by finding and installing a new site template.
Finding a New Theme
There are dozens of websites where people make free WordPress themes available. No matter in whatever the niche or topic your site is about, there has a theme for you. To find free themes, you can search Google by using a search term like ‘free WP themes’ or just ‘WP themes’ to see what you can find, or you can also try to shortcut the process to find something you really like by searching for ‘your topic + theme’.
To help you save time, I suggest you use Professional Designed Theme, the design of the themes are not only look super, they are also search engine friendly.
After you done your theme search, the next job is to upload it to your site by using FTP Program.
Uploading the Theme
An FTP program is software that enables you to upload files from your computer to your website. There are many places where you can download a free FTP program but I would recommend Core FTP, primarily because it is extremely easy to use and of course, it is completely free. Just download and install it to your computer, open the program and then you can start to upload the new theme to your site.
The first time you open the program, you will see one window that shows you the folders and files on your ‘local’ computer (i.e. your desktop or laptop that you are currently using).
What you need to do is to add your server information (your site on your web hosts computer) so that the FTP program is able to create a connection between your pc and the remote server to where you want to upload the theme file.
Click the ‘File’ link at the top of the Core FTP window and then ‘Connect’ when it appears directly beneath the file link:
Clicking the ‘Connect’ link pulls up a window where you need to input the appropriate information that enables you to establish a connection between your local computer and the remote server:
The first thing to do is to give this particular connection a name that will help you to remember which site it is (1). It is important because an aide memoir can help you remember the sites, which means if you do not use an easily distinguishable name, eventually it might become difficult for you to remember all of them.
Next, you need to add the domain name or IP address of your site (2) followed by the user name and password that you use to log into the cPanel for that site (3 and 4).
Finally, click on the ‘Connect’ button at the bottom of the screen (5) to let your computer and your server communicate together. Assuming that this is the case, you should now see two windows in the Core FTP client, one of which shows the files and folders on your desktop whilst the other shows the folders on your remote server:
Next, you need to find the unzipped theme file on your local machine. The easiest way of doing this is to leave the unzipped theme file on your desktop which you can then locate by clicking on the ‘Documents and Settings’ link on the ‘local’ side of your FTP program:
After this, you should be shown a list of users, so click on your own user name (I am PC User on my machine):
And then finally click on ‘Desktop’:
You should now be able to see the folder which contains the new theme that you want to upload on your desktop:
Generally speaking, you will need to open this folder to make sure that you upload only the theme and not any other files or the information that might be contained in this main folder:
Okay, you have now located the appropriate theme information on your desktop. All you need to do now is upload it to your site. In order to do so, open the ‘public_html’ folder on your remote server:
Next, look for and open the ‘wp-content’ folder:
There are three folders in the ‘wp-content’ folder:
You need to upload the new theme to the ‘themes’ folder. To do so you just need to click and dragging the new theme folder from your local computer across to the themes folder on your remote server. Whilst the transfer is taking place, you should be able to see the individual files that are contained in the new theme folder that ‘stacked’ at the bottom of the page. The list of files will gradually decrease as each one is transferred from your local machine to your web hosting account:
Of course, once there are no more files to be transferred across, the theme should be uploaded.
The next job is to check that the transfer took place successfully and to activate the new theme, I will show you how to do in coming up next lesson.
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