How To Make A Portfolio Website in WordPress
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How to Make a Portfolio Website in WordPress
Hi guys, Today we’re going to see how you can create your own portfolio website. Let’s say you are a professional and you want to showcase your skills and the work you have done on your website. You can do that easily by creating a portfolio site.
Okay, I’m Darshan from the website Darshan Blogs. And let’s start building our portfolio website. We’re going to build our portfolio site in just two parts. The first part is to launch your website. Once you have launched your site, your portfolio website will be live on the internet. And you can share your site with anyone. So to launch your Wordpress site, we’re going to do 4 steps. The first step is to choose your website name. Now to choose the name, just click the link below this video. And it will take you to this page. Now here, enter the name you want for your website.
I have already picked a name, which is "GraphicSolve.com." So I'm going to search for it... And then click "check availability". Okay, so you can see that GraphicSolve.com is available. Once you get your name, you can go to step 2, which is to get your hosting and domain. So hosting is the place where your portfolio site’s files will be stored. And domain is your website's address, which will appear here. So to get your hosting and this domain name, let's scroll down. And click ‘Get Hosting. Now this will take you to a website called 'BlueHost. This is the place where we're going to get our hosting and domain. So to get it, let's click 'get started'. Now here, it will ask us to choose a plan. So based on the number of websites, you’re going to build... You can choose a plan here. I want to build one website, so I’m going to choose this plan. And it will take you to this page.
Now here, enter the same name that you selected before. So I'm going to enter ‘graphicsolve.com’ and click 'next'. Now, as you can see, our domain is still available. Now, to get this domain and hosting, let's fill up these details. Here, you can see that we're getting our domain, which is igraphicsolve.com.omom, for free, and our hosting. Now this hosting will be valid for 36 months, which is a year. So once we place this order, you build and use your portfolio site for the next 3 years. Now, if you don't want to get your hosting for three years, you can just click here and then select monthly, which will give you the hosting for five dollars. is still available. Now to get this domain and hosting... Let's fill up these details. Now, here you can see that we're getting our domain, which is igraphicsolve.com.omm, for free, and our hosting. Now this hosting will be valid for 36 months,which is three years. So once we place this order, you can build and use your portfolio site for the next 3 years. Now if you don't want to get your hosting for three years, you can just click here and then select months, which will give you the hosting for 59 dollars. It is still available. Now to get this domain and hosting, Let's fill up these details.
Now, here you can see that we're getting our domain, which is igraphicsolve.com.omom, for free, and our hosting. Now this hosting will be valid for 36 months, which is one year. So once we place this order, you can build and use your portfolio site for the next 3 years. Now if you don't want to get your hosting for three years, you can just click here and then select months, which will give you the hosting for five dollars. Itin is still available. How to get this domain and host i...g…letet’s fill up thesdetails. ls Now, here you can see that we're getting our domain, which is igraphicsolve.com.om, for free, and our hosting. Now this hosting will be valid for 36 months, which is three years. rs So once we place it, you can build and use your portfolio site for the next 3 years. Now, if you don’t want to get hosting for 3 years, you can just click here and then select 1 month, which will give you hosting for dollars. 9 dollars, but I'm going to choose 36 months so that I get the lowest price. And just scroll down. Now, to reduce the price, let’s uncheck these items. And as you can see, our price has been reduced.
Now to get our domain and hosting... Let’s enter our payment details... and click submit. So, now that we've successfully made the payment, we've got our domain and hosting. Once you have gotten your domain and hosting, we can go to step 3 of launching your site, which is to create your account on Bluehost. Let’s click here, enter a password for your account, and click ‘create account'. And you can see that our account has been created. So let’s log in and then enter the same password. And then click 'login. Okay. So once you have created your account and logged in, we can now go to the final step of launching our site, which is to install WordPress. Wordpress is the tool that we’re going to use to create our portfolio website. Now that we've installed WordPress, we can start building our site. So to install WordPress, all you have to do is just click 'skip this step'. And as you can see, WordPress is now being installed! And it’s done! Okay! So WordPress is now installed. And this means we can now launch our site on the Internet.
Now, before we launch our site, let’s confirm our email address. So let’s go to our inbox, open this mail, and click 'verify. Okay! So now we’ve successfully confirmed our email address. This means we can now launch our site. So to launch our site, let’s click home... And then log in to WordPress and click ‘launch your site. And as you can see, our website is launched! So to check it out, let's open a new tab. And now if we type graphicsolve.com.com and press enter, you can see that we have a brand new website with the name that we selected.
And anyone in the world can access this site by going to this address. So now, we have successfully launched our site on the internet! Once you’ve launched your site, we can go to the second part of this tutorial, which is to create our portfolio site, Now, to create our portfolio site, we’re going to do 4 steps. The first step is to install a theme on your website. So to install a theme, just go here and click 'dashboard. Now this is the place where you can control your website.
Now to create our portfolio website, we're going to first import a ready-made design and then edit it to make our own site.
Next, if you want to change this background image, just right-click on the image, select ‘Edit Section, and then go to the ‘Style’ tab. Now to change the image, just click on the image and then drag the image you want and drop it here. And as you can see, the background image has been changed. Now, in the same way, you can change any text or image on this website. So all you have to do is click on the image. Click here, and then drag and drop your image. Once you have edited the contents of the design, just click update.
and all your changes will be saved. So now if we go back to our site and click refresh, you can see that we now have all the content that we added. Now, if you see here, we have the skills section, so if you want to make changes to these Let’s go back to the element. Let’s say you want to edit this skill name. Just go there and click the pencil icon, and you will get these options [to edit the skills]. Now here, enter the name you want. And you can also change the percentage of your skill by dragging this Similarly, you can change all the skills listed here. Now if you want to change the numbers in this section, just click on it, and then you can change them from here. And here, you can change this text. So I’m going to enter ‘Years of Designing. Now, in the same way, you can change these skills. Once you have made the changes, click Update to save them. And now if we go back to our site and click refresh, you can see that our skill section has been updated.
Next, let’s see how we change the logo for our site. To add the logo, let’s go back to customize. Now, as you can see, we have the default logo. So to add our logo:
Just click here and click ‘Change logo. Now drag your logo from your computer... and drop it here. And as you can see, our logo has changed. Once you have done that, click 'Publish. Now if we go back to our site and click refresh, you can see that our logo has changed. And finally, let’s see how to change the footer section of our site. So to change the footer section of our site, let’s go back to customize, and then click this blue icon. And here, enter the text you want. Similarly, do this for the remaining places in the footer section. Once you have done that, click ‘Publish, and your footer section will be updated. So now if we go back to our site and click refresh, you can see that we have successfully gotten our new footer section.
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