Step 3: Install WordPress and get familiar with the interface
by Admin
Posted on 22-06-2023 09:22 AM
The first step in building your portfolio
website
is to install a wordpress theme. If you’re not familiar with themes, they basically give you a quick way to control the overall design of your website. We recommend our astra theme for two big reasons:
it’s free – keeping costs down never hurts, right?
it includes hundreds of website templates that you can import, including lots of portfolio examples. All you need to do is customize the content and you’ll instantly have a professionally-designed portfolio website. For example, you can import the freelance copywriter demo site to instantly make your portfolio look like this:
don’t worry! while the name of the demo is “freelance copywriter”, you can easily adapt it to work as a portfolio for other niches.
Step 4: Pick a theme / design for your website
Wordpress allows you to pick from thousands of designs (called themes ) to build your website, and then install them in only a few clicks!
to begin, log in to your wordpress admin panel and go to appearance → themes. From there, click on add new.
To make sure that you’re only browsing through the best themes, switch to the popular tab. Pick a theme from the list that you like, and install it. We’re going to go with neve (you’ll find it somewhere around the second/third row). This is actually a theme of our own, which the wordpress community seems to like a lot.
All of the above steps will allow you to design a beautiful website with wordpress. Let’s review once again the essential steps you need to do. 🔰 get a search engine optimized domain name 🔰 select your hosting provider smartly 🔰 set up wordpress environment for creating a website 🔰 select a suitable, beginner-friendly wordpress theme 🔰 design your website pages attractively 🔰 ensure that all essential plugins are installed and activated. 🔰 make your site live and share it with others.
Now that we’ve shown you the website platforms and where you can find themes or templates for each one, it’s time to jump right into this next step. After signing up for your website platform of choice, start browsing through your design options. While each website will likely still need tons of customization to fit your brand and web page needs, this helps provide a great starting point. If you’re choosing a wordpress theme, you’ll have to upload the zip file under the appearance themes section in your left sidebar. Each other website platform will allow you to activate the theme internally, since you’ll be choosing your selection right from their website.
With your website ready, step two is to choose a theme that sets the stage for your wedding. Your theme will determine the overall aesthetics of your website and, depending on your pick, it might also offer some added functionalities. For example, some dedicated wedding themes come with guest book and countdown timer features. There are thousand of wordpress themes to choose from (including free options from wordpress. Org as well as premium options from websites like themeforest and creative market ) to choose from to get you started. Furthermore, we have our own roundup of wedding wordpress themes that we think are pretty nifty.
Divi by elegant themes is one of the most popular multi-purpose wordpress themes around. It’s a great pick if you want full control over your website but don’t know about web design or code. Part of that popularity comes from divi’s excellent built-in drag and drop builder that you can use to create any layout for your site. And because you can do so much with divi, it’s an excellent choice to build a website with because it can grow with your business as your needs change. If you don’t find a pre-built divi layout that you love, you can always check out this list of the best divi child themes.