In the previous lesson, you learn that your Hostgator account come with a free site building program, if the kind of site that you want to build happens to match the offer, then by all means you can just go ahead and use their program. However, in a lot of case, the type of the site you want to build can’t get done by use their site builder.
So in today’s lesson, I am going to show you the two different options toward how to build your sites.
Let’s back to our boxer dog training niche that I used in the lesson 4 as an example, you are going to create a site that is focused on providing boxer dog training information whilst promoting a dog food related information product from that site.
The first thing to consider is – “what are you going to feature on your site apart from details of the affiliate product that you are promoting?”
The answer to the question is, you are going to provide your visitors with information about dogs and dog training. Even more specifically, the majority of your content on offers are going to focus on providing information that relates to training boxer dogs. Thus, if you are using free Hostgator site builder program to build your site, its probably not going to be particularly well-suited to what you want to do. You therefore have two choices of how you create your site.
Option one is to do things in the ‘traditional’ way by building your site using HTML. If you have no experience of using HTML, You can simply run a Google search for ‘HTML tutorials’ and you will find plenty of sites where you can learn everything you need to know about HTML scripting, like learn from W3Schools.
Using the information from HTML tutorial sites like W3School, you should be able to create a simple web site pretty much as you want it to be. Another HTML option to go is to start from a site template of the kind that can be downloaded free from OSWD or Free Web Templates.
Doing it in this way obviously cuts down the amount of time and effort you need to expend on creating your website. It is not until your site is finished and published that you can start to earn money, hence getting to that situation as quickly as possible is definitely something to aim for.
Create a website by using HTML can be a slow and relatively time-consuming process, particularly if you are learning how to code in HTML as you are going along. For this reason, I would recommend an alternative non-HTML site building option that is quick, easy and at the same time can help you create superbly effective websites. It is particularly working well for an online marketing beginner, which is WordPress.
To install WordPress on your BoxerDogTrainingExpert site, you have two choices. The first choice is download the program from WordPress.org directly, and the second installation method is through your cPanel that located in your Hostgator account, once you login to your account, look for the icon for ‘Fantastico’ or ‘Fantastico De Luxe’ near the bottom of the page under ‘Software/Services’:
‘Fantastico’ is a suite of programs that are already pre-installed on your site, ready to be activated whenever you want to. One of the programs that is included in the ‘Fantastico’ suite is WordPress. All you need to do is just click on the WordPress link in the program list:
And then follow the step by step installation instructions, which will discuss in the next lesson. So stay turn.
In the mean time, if you are a type of person that prefer to learn it by watching videos, here they are:
* Setting Up a WordPress Site Part 1
* Setting Up a WordPress Site Part 2
* Setting Up a WordPress Site Part 3
