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How To

Build A

Free

Website

Omid Hosseini

August 2016

003

Without

knowing

programming

or anything else

(WordPress)

1 Copyright notice

Copyright notice Omid Hosseini asserts his moral right as the author of this publication. All rights

reserved. Don’t use this book for illegal activity.

2 Dear reader

Dear reader

I am Omid Hosseini, and the book you are reading is the first book I have ever written in

English. Thank you for choosing it.

In this book you can learn how to build a free website. Don’t worry, it’s very easy! You

don’t need to know programming or anything else. You only must do as this book says.

Do it step by step and you will have a free website. Enjoy it.

I try my best but if you find any mistakes or problems please tell me. I’ll fix them in next

revision. You can download my books for free from my blog. So, please download latest

revision.

My blog: blog.y70.ir

My forum: forum.y70.ir

3 Dear reader

Contents Copyright notice .......................................................................................................................................... 1

Dear reader ................................................................................................................................................. 2

Contents ........................................................................................................................................................ 3

1) Download the latest revision ................................................................................................................ 4

2) Host and Domain ................................................................................................................................... 8

3) WordPress ............................................................................................................................................ 14

4) Getting started with WordPress ......................................................................................................... 37

5) Tell the world about your website...................................................................................................... 49

6) Monetize your site ............................................................................................................................... 53

7) Epilogue ................................................................................................................................................ 68

4 1) Download the latest revision

1) Download the latest revision

In every revision, I fix previous mistakes. So let’s download the latest revision. If this

book is the latest revision go to next chapter.

Go to blog.y70.ir . Find “CATEGORIES”. Then click “How to build a free website”.

5 1) Download the latest revision

Find latest revision and click on the download link.

Click “Download”.

6 1) Download the latest revision

Click “No thanks, continue to download”.

Save the zip file.

7 1) Download the latest revision

Extract it. Then open it.

8 2) Host and Domain

2) Host and Domain

For build a free website we need a free host, free domain, and free publishing platform.

Go to www.y70.ir .In this page click Signup for Free Hosting.

9 2) Host and Domain

Fill the form.

Note: your username is used in your free domain. For example if you choose “myfriend”

for username then your domain will be something like “myfriend.y70.ir”.

I choose “mysite”.

10 2) Host and Domain

Fill the form then click register. If your username be available then you can see this

page, if not, you must click back and try something else.

For activate your account, go to your email address.

Open activation email and click the activation link.

11 2) Host and Domain

You have to save next page or take a note of the details because you need the details

for your site.

This is my “Control panel username”.

12 2) Host and Domain

Go to www.y70.ir . Click “Login”.

For Username use your “Control panel username”. Then type your password and click

“Log in”.

13 2) Host and Domain

Click “No, I’m fine. Thanks!”

Now, you have a free host with a free domain.

14 3) WordPress

3) WordPress

Go to blog.y70.ir . Click “Download WordPress”.

Download and save the zip file.

15 3) WordPress

Go to www.y70.ir . Click Login.

For Username use your “Control panel username”. Then type your password and click

“Log in”.

16 3) WordPress

In your control panel go to “MySQL Databases”.

Type something and click “Create Database”. (I type my name)

Your database is created. Please make a note of your database detail. You need it

later.

17 3) WordPress

Click back. In your control panel go to “Online File Manager”.

Go to “htdocs”.(click on “htdocs”.)

18 3) WordPress

Click “Upload”.

Click “Browse” button under the “Archives (zip, tar, tgz, gz)”.

19 3) WordPress

Find WordPress file in your computer and open it.

Click the .

It takes some minute. Wait until upload will be completed.

20 3) WordPress

Click .

Go to “wordpress”.

21 3) WordPress

Click “All”.

Click “move”.

22 3) WordPress

Select “/wordpress”. Then delete it.

Click “Set all targetdirectories”.

23 3) WordPress

All of “Target directory” must change to “/htdocs”.

24 3) WordPress

Click .

Click .

25 3) WordPress

Click “Up”.

Find “wp-config-sample.php”.

26 3) WordPress

Select it & then click “Edit”. (same as picture)

27 3) WordPress

Find “define('DB_NAME', 'database_name_here');”.

28 3) WordPress

Now, you need your database details.

You must change “database_name_here” to your database name. My database name

is “y70_181****omid”. Select “database_name_here” & delete it. Then type your

database name.

It should be like next picture.

29 3) WordPress

Click .

Select “username_here” & delete it. Then type your database username.

Select “password_here” & delete it. Then type your control panel password. (your host

password).

30 3) WordPress

Click .

Select “localhost” & delete it. Then type your database Host Name.

Click .

Now, it should be like this.

Click .

31 3) WordPress

Find “wp-config-sample.php”. Select it & then click “Rename”.

Select “-sample” & delete it.

32 3) WordPress

Click .

Then click .

Now, open new tab in your browser and type your site address and press Enter. My

address is www.mysite.y70.ir .

33 3) WordPress

Choose your site language and click “Continue”.(I choose English.)

34 3) WordPress

Choose username and password & fill the form. Then click “Install WordPress”.

Click “Log In”.

35 3) WordPress

Enter your username & password. Then click “Log In”.

This is your wordpress control panel. You can change your site here.

36 3) WordPress

Open new tab in your browser & go to your site.

Congratulation. You build a free site.

37 4) Getting started with WordPress

4) Getting started with WordPress

If you want to edit your site you have to go to your WordPress log in page. Your log in

page is like yoursitedomain/wp-login.php . My log in page is www.mysite.y70.ir/wp-

login.php .

Type your username & password, then click “Log In”.

On the control panel, click “Posts”.

38 4) Getting started with WordPress

On this page you can write new posts or edit or delete them.

Choose the default post and click “Trash”.

Click “Add New”.

39 4) Getting started with WordPress

Enter your post’s title & type your post. Then click Publish.

40 4) Getting started with WordPress

Click “View post”.

If you want to know more about posting go to http://adf.ly/1auDsB and click “SKIP AD”.

41 4) Getting started with WordPress

In your browser click back. Click “Appearance”.

Click “Customize”.

42 4) Getting started with WordPress

Click “Site Identity”.

43 4) Getting started with WordPress

You can select or change a logo & an icon for your site and edit site title and tagline

here.

Click “Save & Publish” ,then click back.

44 4) Getting started with WordPress

I want to add a counter for counting my website visitors. Click “Widgets”.

Click “Sidebar”.

45 4) Getting started with WordPress

Click “Add a Widget”.

Click “Text”.

46 4) Getting started with WordPress

We need counter code for “Content”.

Open new tab in your browser and go to simplehitcounter.com . Change the color of the

counter as you like, then click “Get Counter Code”.

47 4) Getting started with WordPress

Select all the text and copy them.

Go back to your website tab and paste the code in “Content” area. Then click “Save &

Publish”.

48 4) Getting started with WordPress

Now, you can see your web counter.

If you want to learn more about WordPress, Have courage. Try to change theme,

colors, menu.

If you want to know more about WordPress go to http://adf.ly/1bccUl and click “SKIP

AD”.

49 5) Tell the world about your website

5) Tell the world about your website

Once your website is live, you will want some visitors. There are several methods to do

that, but firstly, you must register your website on web search engines.

Go to http://adf.ly/1dMwsY . Enter your website address and your email. Then click

“Proceed”.

Click on “Choose plan”.

50 5) Tell the world about your website

Go to your email and click “Confirm Submission”.

51 5) Tell the world about your website

Click “Click here to …”.

52 5) Tell the world about your website

Type your website address. Then click “SUBMIT”.

It’s done. I recommend submitting your websites around once a month.

53 6) Monetize your site

6) Monetize your site

Go to http://adf.ly/1cspNO. Click “REGISTER”.

Click “PUBLISHER”.

54 6) Monetize your site

Fill the form, then click “SIGN UP PUBLISHER”.

55 6) Monetize your site

Go to your email and click on activation link.

Go to your email and see your username and password.

56 6) Monetize your site

Go to http://adf.ly/1cspNO. Click “LOGIN”. Click “PUBLISHER”.

Fill the form, then click “Log in”.

57 6) Monetize your site

Type your website address, then click “Submit”.

Click “file”.

58 6) Monetize your site

Save the file.

Go to www.y70.ir. Then click “Login”. Fill the form and click “Log in”.

59 6) Monetize your site

Click on “Online File Manager”.

Click “htdocs”.

60 6) Monetize your site

Click “Upload”.

Click “Browse”.

61 6) Monetize your site

Find the file and then open it.

Click .

62 6) Monetize your site

Click . Then click .

Now, click “verify”.

63 6) Monetize your site

Click “Sites”.

Choose “Popunder” then click “Next”.

Type a name then click “Next”.

64 6) Monetize your site

Copy the HTML code.

Go to your site and log in. My log in page is www.mysite.y70.ir/wp-login.php .

Click “Appearance”.

65 6) Monetize your site

Click “Widgets”.

Drag and drop “Text” into “Main Sidebar”.

66 6) Monetize your site

Paste the code in “Content” area. Then click “Save”.

Open your site in a new tab, then click anywhere in your page. Two other tab will be

opened. One of them is from your ad and other one is from the free host company.

From now, if anyone visit your site, you earn money.

Go to PropellerAds and click “Dashboard”.

67 6) Monetize your site

In this page, you can see “Impressions” and your earning.

What is “CPM”?

Cost per mille (CPM), also called cost ‰ and cost per thousand (CPT) (in Latin mille

means thousand), is a commonly used measurement in advertising. Radio, television,

newspaper, magazine, out-of-home advertising, and online advertising can be

purchased on the basis of showing the ad to one thousand viewers. (from google)

If you have thousand impressions, you earn 0.05$. it’s not much, but it’s good for

beginning. If your site have many visitors in a day, then you can use banner ads too.

If you want to know another ways of monetizing, check my blog. I sometimes add new

sites and ways of monetizing. Blog.y70.ir.

68 7) Epilogue

7) Epilogue

Thank you for having read the book. I know! My English is not good, but I try my best to

fix mistakes. Thanks for your patience.

If you enjoyed this book, you can help me with:

If you have money to spare, this is my PayPal email: software70co@ymail.com

And this is my PayPal.me https://www.paypal.me/omid70 .

Put link of my blog on your site. http://Blog.y70.ir .

Tell your friends about this book.

Share it in twitter, Facebook and …

I would love to hear what you have to say about the book. goodreads.com

Thanks and cheers and lots of looking forward.