The Make Your Own Website Blog

One of the most popular types of personal sites is the wedding website or “wedsite”. In this case study I am going to take you through the process of building a wedding website, and then at a later date converting it into a family website.

This will be an ongoing exercise but the main part should be complete after a few months. After that I will continue to add functionality to the site and rearrange as necessary.

You can follow the progress here on the blog and also ask questions, make suggestions and provide feedback.Because most potential builders of this type of site are non technical in nature I have decided to build the site using WordPress and in two parts.

WordPress is very flexible, free and requires no web authoring tools to use. It also allows for multiple authors and provides secure areas which will be important later as it transforms into a general family site.

Starting With A free Website

I’ve decided to start building the site with using a free WordPress hosted blog as it will give you a chance to follow along by building your own site at the same time.

Although you can develop the entire site using the free blog there are things that I want to include that are not possible using the free hosted blog. Therefore I will develop a basic site using the free hosted solution in part 1 and then in Part 2 I will switch over to a self hosted blog.

However by that time you will hopefully be feeling comfortable using WordPress. and will then be able to decide if you want to invest in a host and domain name or whether you will continue to develop your free hosted blog.

What we Will be Doing

Part 1

1. Wordpress Overview
2. Registering for a blog
3. Adding a Blog
4. Choosing the blog theme
5. Initial setup
6. Site Layout
7. Making a few blog posts to see how they work.
8. Putting content on Home page and linking in the blog posts
9. Adding A few more Content Pages.
10. Wrapping up.

Part 1 is online here. Please come back here to comment and make suggestions.

Part 2

1. Moving to a self hosted WordPress blog. ….coming soon