WordPress is such a popular blogging platform mainly due to being free, that you may find yourself desiring to jump on it. So you can showcase WordPress visual material on the Web. Being a visual artist or a photographer, you may quite soon feel discouragement when realizing that you don’t have enough expertise in dealing with actual website setup. Truth be told it’s not as complicated as you might think. Here’re a few steps to help you get started:
1. Decide on the domain name
Before people can find your site on the Web it should have an address. So decide what your domain name will be. Options include your personal name, your business name, any other catchy word or a short memorable phrase.
2. Register your domain name
There’re tons of Registrar companies easily found on Google. Do a little research comparing prices and conditions and register your domain name with the most appealing one. It’s highly advisable for you to register it in the top level domain zone with an extension like .com, .net, .org, .biz etc.
3. Subscribe for hosting account
Registrar company only provides you with web address, but you need some place to host it in order to make your portfolio WordPress site visible at that address. Many hosting companies do domain name registration as well, so you can order both services in just a single place. These requirements are what to look for while getting hosting for WordPress:
- PHP of version 4.3 or higher;
- MySQL database of version 4.0 or higher;
- Linux/UNIX with Apache server;
- 100 mb of hosting disk space minimum.
4. Associate domain name with hosting account
If you ordered both domain name registration and hosting with one company, the association happens automatically. Otherwise contact your Registrar company with the list of name servers your host communicates to you after subscription. So they assign them to your domain name.
5. Install WordPress
Download WordPress package from WordPress official homepage, and follow setup instructions founded on Installing WordPress manual page.
6. Choose WordPress portfolio theme
Select the template to your like from tons of WordPress themes presented in the appropriate section of our website. To ease this process we picked up 10 premium WordPress templates for your consideration:
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
7. Install and configure your portfolio theme
Using FTP, upload your portfolio theme folder onto your domain, place it in the WordPress /wp_content/themes directory. Log in to your newly installed WordPress dashboard and activate the theme in Appearance -> Themes.
From now on you work solely inside your WordPress dashboard. Right away you can start filling up your theme with content, adding images to the portfolio using upload dialog in the portfolio section and furnishing each of them with matching description. Make minor customizations, edit texts and images, and here you are!
Hopefully these guidelines for WordPress Portfolio Website setup were helpful and easy to follow. Stay with us, and we’ll provide you with new how-to instructions in a short time!
Related posts:
- Premium WordPress Hosting: Save 30% Dear Friends, You might noticed that FlashMint has been into...
- Premium WordPress Hosting: Save 30% Dear Friends, You might noticed that FlashMint has been into...
- The Easiest Way to Create a Professional Photo Portfolio We’ve been discussing the importance of having a photo portfolio...
- 10 Most Asked Questions About WordPress WordPress CMS has become extremely famous nowadays providing every webmaster...
- 10 Most Asked Questions About WordPress WordPress CMS has become extremely famous nowadays providing every webmaster...
Follow FlashMint on Twitter for more awesome Flash Tutorials!
"Like" FlashMint FaceBook Page to stay in touch!
