Your first step is to pick and register a domain name. A domain name is your dot-com, e.g. mydomain.com. Of course, it doesn’t need to be a dot-com. It can be dot-net, dot-org, dot-asia (if that suites your fancy), etc.<\/p>\n
I recommend registering on GoDaddy<\/a>, because it’s cheap. You can always find GoDaddy coupons on Google to get a new domain name for $7.50 or less. <\/em>This is a great place to check for GoDaddy coupons: If you are looking to get a domain name for free, we can actually make that happen.\u00a0 (More on that in step 2.)\u00a0 In that case, pick your domain name, but don’t register it yet.<\/p>\n To explain the importance of each step, I’m going to draw an extended analogy comparing building a website with building a physical home. Your domain name is your street address.<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0 Create a hosting account with GreenGeeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n After you register your domain name, your next step is to find a web host provider. What a web host does is rent you a computer (i.e. web server) that you can store your web site on.\u00a0 Going back to our analogy, your web host is like the land your house sits on. Your lot.<\/p>\n I recommend GreenGeeks<\/a>.\u00a0 They are affordable, will give you a free domain<\/strong><\/span>, and provide “green,” eco-friendly hosting.\u00a0 As an environmentally and socially responsible person, this last point is particularly important.\u00a0 Some other features include 24\/7 support, free site migration (if you’re switching hosts), and 30-day money back guarantee.<\/p>\n With a basic GreenGeeks account, you get unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth for $4.95\/month, which includes a free domain.\u00a0\u00a0 Use the coupon ‘THEMAN<\/strong>‘ and receive an additional $30 off. \u00a0 This is an exclusive coupon for readers of my blog.<\/strong> I spoke with GreenGeeks directly to get this deal for you!\u00a0 Note that the $4.95\/month is based on a 3-year contract.\u00a0 Shorter term contracts will increase the monthly rate.<\/p>\n If you go with GreenGeeks, you will have your domain registration taken care of.\u00a0 If you already have a domain name, you can transfer it to them for free.<\/p>\n On the other hand, if you go with a different host, you will need to register your domain with GoDaddy and set your domain’s nameservers.\u00a0 Don’t worry, setting your domain’s nameservers is easy to do.\u00a0 To do this, after you’ve registered your domain with GoDaddy, log in to their site.\u00a0 Then, hover over the ‘DOMAIN’ tab, and click ‘Domain Management’ (on the far right column).\u00a0 See the screenshot below.\u00a0 (Click the image to view the full size.)<\/p>\n Next, mark the checkbox next to your domain name; click the ‘Nameservers’ icon; then click ‘Set Nameservers.’<\/p>\n In the pop up box, type in the following 2 values into Nameserver 1 and Nameserver 2, respectively:<\/p>\n You should verify the exact nameservers with your host.<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0 Download PSPad.<\/strong><\/p>\n Now, let’s download a text editor. A text editor is used to modify the code for your web site. You can actually use Microsoft Notepad for this, but something like PSPad<\/a> is much better. Don’t worry, it’s free.<\/p>\n You can liken a text editor to a saw, or a power drill, or any tool used to build your home.\u00a0 Download PSPad here: 4.\u00a0 Download and modify Easy CMS (Content Management System).<\/strong><\/p>\n Easy CMS<\/a> is a Content Management System (CMS)<\/a> I created just for this article.\u00a0 A CMS is like a pre-built web site template.\u00a0 It’s an out-of-the-box website.\u00a0 All you need to do is install it and fill in the contents.<\/p>\n Easy CMS was designed for the beginner\u00a0 It is, in fact, the only CMS that is not dependent on a database.\u00a0 I know setting up a database for anyone who hasn’t done it before can be a challenging, frustrating, and time-consuming process. So, let’s leave that battle for another day.<\/p>\n Download Easy CMS from here.\u00a0 Yes, it is free. Once you have Easy CMS downloaded, you need to add your own content to it.\u00a0 Easy CMS is your empty house.\u00a0 Adding content is decorating the interior–painting the walls, carpeting the floors, adding the furniture.<\/p>\n To begin, open up the config.php file in PSPad.\u00a0 Within this file, there are a number of variables<\/strong> that you can modify.\u00a0 Each variable<\/strong> stores a value<\/strong> that you should customize for your site.\u00a0 All variables being with a dollar sign and all values are contained within quotes.\u00a0 A variable and its value are separated by an equal sign.\u00a0 Here is an example:<\/p>\n In the above example, $pages[0][“nav”]<\/strong> is the variable and Home<\/strong> is the value.\u00a0 If you want to change the navigation text to read something else, just change Home<\/strong> to some other text.<\/p>\n Let’s say you website is for a clothing brand called Zephyr Jeans.\u00a0 Your modified config.php file may look like the following:<\/p>\n Updating the config.php file will set the title of the website, the text in top header section of all the pages, the navigation text, as well as the title each page.\u00a0 To modify the content of each page, you will need to modify the files located inside the pages<\/strong> directory.<\/p>\n Inside the pages<\/strong> directory, you will 5 files named page1.php, page2.php, page3.php, page4.php, and page5.php.\u00a0 These, unsurprisingly, correspond to the 5 pages of your site.\u00a0 They are all structured the same.\u00a0 It should be pretty straightforward to modify.\u00a0 If you know HTML, you can insert HTML into these pages.\u00a0 However, knowledge of HTML is not required.<\/p>\n Modify the 5 pages (i.e. page1.php, page2.php, page3.php, page4.php, page5.php) accordingly.<\/p>\n 5.\u00a0 Register a Google Analytics account.<\/strong><\/p>\n Google Analytics is a great and free web analytics tool.\u00a0 What does that mean exactly?\u00a0 It’s a service that allows you to analyze who is coming to your site and what pages they’re visiting.\u00a0 Check out the screenshots below for a better idea of what kind of data and insight Google Analytics provides.<\/p>\n If you currently use Gmail or any of Google’s other services, you can just add Google Analytics to your existing Google account.\u00a0 After you register with Google Analytics, click “+ Add New Profile” (located on the top right, just below the time frame buttons).<\/p>\n Select the default radio button “Add a Profile for a new domain” and enter in your domain information.\u00a0 Click the “Finish” button.<\/p>\n This will bring you to a page that includes code for you to paste into your web site’s source code.\u00a0 This code is clearly marked, but here is a screenshot for your convenience.<\/p>\n Copy the code in the text box, circled in red above.<\/p>\n In the pages<\/strong> directory, you will find a file named head.php<\/strong>.\u00a0 Open this document in PSPad and paste in the code from Google Analytics.\u00a0 Save and close this file.<\/p>\n 6.\u00a0 Download Core FTP and connect to Infura.<\/strong><\/p>\n Now that you have updated Newbie CMS with your content, you need to upload all this stuff to your web host.\u00a0 In other words, your house has been built, but you built it off site.\u00a0 You now need to take a giant crane and move your house from this off site location to your actual street address.<\/p>\n This giant crane is Core FTP.\u00a0 Core FTP is a free program that allows you to connect to your web host, Infura.<\/p>\n You can download Core FTP for free from here: To upload (meaning copy) anything to Infura, like your website files or anything you wish, you will need the FTP server info, your FTP username, and your FTP password.\u00a0 Your FTP server URL is actually your website on Infura. So for example, if your domain name is DOMAIN.COM, then your FTP url to connect to, in any FTP program, will be<\/p>\n Or<\/p>\n Both of those url’s will work to connect to your domain on Infura.com .<\/p>\n Your FTP username and password are what you used to sign up with Infura, and can be found in your welcome email. If at anytime you need to find out your username and password again, have them reset or would like to have your welcome email resent, simply contact Infura<\/a>.<\/p>\n Once you enter those 3 pieces of information, simply click “Connect” and you’re all set!<\/p>\n 7.\u00a0 Upload your web site and get it indexed with Rapid Google Indexer.<\/strong><\/p>\n Now that you are connected to your Infura account, you can finally upload your website to the Internet!\u00a0 Feeling excited?<\/p>\n Once you are connected to your Infura account, you will see several folders. Each folder on your Infura hosting account serves a specific purpose. For you to upload your site, the folder “public_html” is what you are looking for. Anything you upload there, including the Easy CMS, will be shown publicly to the whole world.<\/p>\n Simply double click the “public_html” folder to navigate into it.<\/p>\n The way most FTP clients, including Core FTP, work is by allowing you to drag and drop files from the left window onto the right window area inside your FTP program. The left window area is your local computer, the one you installed the FTP program on. The right hand side window is your Infura Hosting account online in the internet clouds, allowing you to put files into it the way you would on your local computer.<\/p>\n Now navigate in the left hand side menu of your Core FTP program to your local computer folder which has the files, like Easy CMS, that you want to upload. 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