WEBVTT 00:00.200 --> 00:00.920 In this video. 00:00.920 --> 00:02.960 Let's talk about how to create your website. 00:02.960 --> 00:08.000 If you're non-technical, if you're technical, you probably just going to create it yourself in a day 00:08.000 --> 00:10.130 or two if it's a simple website. 00:10.130 --> 00:14.450 So this video is not for you, but if you're non-technical, you probably have these questions. 00:14.450 --> 00:15.110 Should I do it? 00:15.140 --> 00:17.870 DIY Try to figure it out by myself. 00:17.870 --> 00:25.880 Like usually people figure out Wix or WordPress or even HTML coding and if you choose Wix or WordPress 00:25.880 --> 00:29.150 or anything else like which one should you use? 00:29.150 --> 00:32.810 Those are the typical questions that we're going to answer in this video. 00:32.810 --> 00:40.010 So if you're not a developer, there's a very simple answer you should outsource, because even if you 00:40.010 --> 00:45.110 figure out how to create your WordPress website and you should have a working knowledge of it and you 00:45.110 --> 00:46.190 should be able to edit it. 00:46.190 --> 00:50.450 So play around with it a little bit because you will need to make edits long term, but you're going 00:50.450 --> 00:55.820 to end up spending ten times the time to create your website and it will still look amateur because 00:55.820 --> 00:57.950 you're not going to know how to customize the themes. 00:57.950 --> 01:03.570 Theme is what they call the design in WordPress and WordPress Developer. 01:03.600 --> 01:09.060 They've done it before your site probably hundreds of times, so they'll be able to go in there in a 01:09.060 --> 01:12.030 day or a few days and make it look nice and professional. 01:12.030 --> 01:18.810 So if you have a relatively simple site like 5 to 10 pages, maybe a blog, maybe even you sell a product 01:18.810 --> 01:21.090 or two, that's a WordPress, no problem. 01:21.090 --> 01:22.380 You can also do Squarespace. 01:22.380 --> 01:25.530 The difference between WordPress and Squarespace is WordPress. 01:25.560 --> 01:32.760 You're able to customize a lot more and Squarespace is kind of pre-built and Wix is just another version 01:32.790 --> 01:33.990 of Squarespace. 01:33.990 --> 01:38.400 But I think at the end of the day I would just go with WordPress and that will make your life easier 01:38.400 --> 01:43.590 because then you can just hire freelancers and you don't have to worry about the look and feel the content 01:43.590 --> 01:44.280 of your site. 01:44.280 --> 01:45.810 You are responsible for that. 01:45.810 --> 01:50.880 But the look and feel and the design, that's something that the developer can do for you pretty quickly. 01:50.880 --> 01:56.820 So if you're deciding Shopify versus WordPress versus Squarespace versus Wix, the reason some people 01:56.820 --> 01:59.160 use Shopify is for heavy e-commerce. 01:59.160 --> 02:04.280 So if you have a specifically e-commerce store, then of course you want to use Shopify, but WordPress 02:04.280 --> 02:07.760 also has plugins to help you have e-commerce. 02:07.760 --> 02:09.770 So you can do that with WordPress as well. 02:09.890 --> 02:10.370 No problem. 02:10.370 --> 02:17.450 It's just Shopify has more robust features centered around e-commerce and then Squarespace and Wix, 02:17.450 --> 02:20.690 they're more like drag and drop, easy to create the site. 02:20.690 --> 02:28.250 But the most popular platform and I think over 21% or over 22% or something like that of all websites 02:28.250 --> 02:31.340 on the web, they have WordPress underneath. 02:31.340 --> 02:34.580 So that's probably overall the safest bet. 02:34.610 --> 02:36.620 Now I want to clear up one confusion. 02:36.620 --> 02:41.300 You can get a free domain name like your domain dot WordPress.com. 02:41.330 --> 02:42.380 Don't do that. 02:42.410 --> 02:47.930 You will need hosting and you will need to buy a domain name and there's options to get a free domain 02:47.930 --> 02:48.260 name. 02:48.260 --> 02:52.280 But in this video, I just want to make sure that you understand. 02:52.310 --> 02:55.970 Get your own hosting, which is usually 5 to $10 a month. 02:55.970 --> 02:59.900 Get your domain name, which is usually like a one time fee a year, small fee. 02:59.900 --> 03:05.490 And you want your name.com, not your name. 03:05.490 --> 03:06.630 Dot WordPress.com. 03:06.630 --> 03:11.100 Your name Dot WordPress.com looks extremely unprofessional and it's extremely hard to do business that 03:11.100 --> 03:11.490 way. 03:11.490 --> 03:15.600 Your business is just not going to work because people won't buy from a site like that typically. 03:15.600 --> 03:17.130 So there's plenty of options. 03:17.130 --> 03:25.140 Like Bluehost.com is a popular hosting option, even GoDaddy, which most people don't like, but it's 03:25.140 --> 03:27.540 still popular and there's many, many options for them. 03:27.540 --> 03:29.250 They're pretty much a commoditized thing. 03:29.250 --> 03:32.160 So you'll need a domain name hosting. 03:32.160 --> 03:38.430 And then on your hosting you would install WordPress as the CMS, and then you'd give that to the developer 03:38.430 --> 03:43.140 and the developer would just customize the WordPress, which is going to be how the website looks to 03:43.140 --> 03:43.920 the consumers. 03:43.920 --> 03:49.920 So that should answer the questions of which CMS you should choose and should you do it by yourself 03:49.920 --> 03:52.230 and what to buy.