Step-by-step tutorials for building your website from scratch. Whether you’re setting up WordPress for the first time, installing WooCommerce, connecting your domain, or launching your store — these guides cover every step without skipping anything or assuming prior knowledge.
You need a website for your business, and you’d rather not spend money before you’ve made any. That’s a completely reasonable place to start – and despite what some guides suggest, it’s genuinely possible to build a professional-looking business website without spending a penny. This guide covers exactly how to build a business website for…
This is one of the first questions people ask when they start thinking about building a website – and it’s one of the hardest to get a straight answer to. Search for it, and you’ll find articles quoting anywhere from “completely free” to “thousands of pounds.” Both of those are technically true, which is exactly…
So you’ve decided to build a WordPress website. Good choice – and the fact that you’re here reading a step-by-step guide rather than just diving in and hoping for the best means you’re already approaching this the right way. WordPress powers over 40% of all websites on the internet. It’s the platform behind everything from…
If you’ve decided to build your website on WordPress and you’ve chosen Bluehost as your host, good choices both. Now let’s get it set up. This guide on how to install WordPress on Bluehost walks you through the entire process from scratch. By the end of it you’ll have a live WordPress site on Bluehost,…
Your domain name is one of the most important decisions you’ll make for your website. It’s your address on the internet. It’s how people find you, how they remember you, and how you present yourself online. Unlike most website decisions – your theme, your plugins, your page layout – your domain name is genuinely difficult…
If you’ve spent more than ten minutes researching how to build a website, you’ve almost certainly come across both of these. And if you’re confused about what the difference is, you’re not alone. The naming is genuinely confusing, and the two products are different enough that choosing the wrong one can send you down a…
You’ve bought your domain name. You’ve got your WordPress hosting sorted. Now you need to connect the two – so that when someone types your domain into a browser, they land on your WordPress site. This guide on how to connect a domain to WordPress covers exactly that process, and it’s one of those tasks…
There’s a particular feeling that comes over most new website owners about two-thirds of the way through building their site. Everything is mostly done. The pages are there. The theme is set up. The posts are drafted. And the temptation to just hit publish and be done with it is overwhelming. Resist it for about…
At some point, a significant proportion of Wix users arrive at the same realisation. The site is live. It works. But something is pulling them towards WordPress’s better SEO control, display ad monetisation, lower long-term costs, or simply the sense that Wix’s limitations are becoming constraints rather than conveniences. If that’s where you are, this…
Buying a domain name is one of the first things you do when building a website. It’s also one of the decisions most people spend the least time on. They search for their name, find a registrar at the top of Google, and buy without thinking too hard about it. That approach works fine most…