How to Set Up a Website – A Beginner's Guide

I'm Daniel Piechnick, a professional web designer from Adelaide, Australia.

I wrote this beginner's guide to help the large number of people who want to set up a website, but have absolutely no idea of what to do.

In Website Setup Guide, I show you exactly how to set up a proper, normal website with a .com domain name, from start to finish. I've omitted everything you don't need to know, so you can publish your site as fast as possible.

Setting up a website and running it this way will cost you about $3-4 per month in total. The information in this site is all free.

Based on feedback I've received, the vast majority of people have no problems following this guide, and setting up their own websites. However, if you're ever unsure of something, or if you get stuck at any stage, you can email me. I'll let you know what you need to do.

Setting up a website, in a nutshell

Take note of this overview. It's important.

To set up a website, you only need to do these two things:

1: Choose a domain name (i.e. something.com), and buy web hosting (to put your website on.) 2: Create a website and publish it, using either a web page editor, or the WordPress system.

I will explain both of these things to you in the next two steps. Bookmark this page now, for future reference, and we'll begin with the first of these two steps: