Step 1 – Setup Your Domain And Hosting

To complete your website we are going to use a service called bluehost.com where you are going to setup your domain and hosting, this is where your website is going to live. Go to http://www.bluehost.com Now!

Either Watch The Video Or Follow The Written Instructions Below

Bluehost are safe, secure and reliable with 24/7 customer support and fast servers for good website performance. They are our recommend host.

The following steps will show you how to get your free domain and setup your hosting. Start by clicking this link here to open bluehost so that you can start.

Follow the numbered steps below and have your website up and running in under 4 minutes.

1) Go To Bluehost Website: Click Here (if you haven’t already)

Then click on “Sign Up Now” in the middle of the page (like below)

2) Choose Your FREE domain name and Click “Next” (see below)

If you haven’t already done so, register your domain name with bluehost to setup your website (they include this for free if you use their web hosting service)

Here are some tips on choosing the right domain:

• It is brand-able (like facebook.com)
• Or it has something to do with what your site is about (like dogbreedingtips.com)
• Its easily memorable
• preferably ends in .com

3) Fill in the account and billing information into the Sign Up Now form. (see below)

Do select Site Lock Domain Security and Site Backup Pro, they are your website insurance policies if things go bad and you need to get a backup or fix a problem.

Then enter in your credit card information and click Next at the bottom to complete the order.

4) Ignore the Up-sells

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click continue.

5) Click To Create a password for your account (click the link)

6) Create a password for your account

Remember this password, you are going to use it is to access your website

7) Install WordPress (Your website)

Enter your password to login to your ‘Control Panel’

This is the password you created in the previous step.

Once you are in your cpanel for your website scroll down to the bottom of the page to the Software/Services section and select the wordpress icon.

9) In the next screen select install

10) The you need to make your installation preferences.

Leave the sectiosn in step 1 as is.

UN-Check both boxes in step 3

Select that you have read the displaimer in Step 4.

Click Complete.

11) Save your information.

Once your blog has been setup you need to copy the login information that is produced for your website.

You need this information for later to configure and customize your website.

If you go to your domain now you should see the default wordpress installed and the start of your new website.

DONE: If you have completed all the above steps correctly your should have now setup your website and be able to see it and be able to login to it.

Don’t panic if you go to your domain name and you dont get your wordpress blog. To confirm it should look something like this. Just sit tight, there is nothing that you can do that will speed the process up. It should be up and running within that time period and then you can complete the next step.