Building A Website Quickly

There are a number of steps you need to take prior to building a website, such as deciding on hosting, buying a domain name and getting content ready for your website. For now we will assume you have done all of these. This post will concentrate solely on building a website quickly. We will be using a system where content is separated from design, designing your website quickly is another post.

Building A Website Quickly Using Wordpress

Wordpress boast a 5 minute installation, seems impossible, right? It is entirely true. Your website can be uploaded and online for the world to see within 5 minutes.

To complete the build of your website quickly (within 5 minutes) you will only need to perform these steps:

1. Download Wordpress from wordpress.org
2. Unzip the file (it should unzip a folder called “wordpress”
3. Enter your database details into the wp-config-sample.php file and rename it to wp-config.php
4. Upload the contents of the “wordpress” folder to the directory you want on your server

And that is your website online.

Is Installing Wordpress Really Building A Website Quickly?

In short, yes it is. Wordpress may be best known as a blogging platform, but a blog is nothing more than a particular type of website. There are many benefits of using Wordpress to run your website on and not many arguments against using Wordpress. We will cover these in future posts!