| When starting out with your online business you | | | | upgrade option for those websites hosted at |
| probably want to set it up as cheaply as possible, | | | | Many WordPress templates will come with a variety |
| and this includes the setting up of your website too. | | | | of options so that you can edit the template very |
| WordPress is often the platform of choice for those | | | | easily from your WordPress dashboard. Just look out |
| just starting out online, without the budget to hire | | | | for these within the "add new template" option on |
| someone to create a website for them, it offers the | | | | your dashboard. To edit an image or a header and |
| cheapest and most versatile option. | | | | that option doesn't appear in within the template |
| Setting up your first website in WordPress is a great | | | | dashboard, you need access to the images located in |
| idea for so many reasons. If you are unsure about | | | | the hosting file, which you do not have access to. So |
| which business you want to go into, setting up a | | | | just be aware of this. |
| WordPress site, whether it's hosted or self-hosted, is | | | | Another thing you need to take into consideration is |
| a cheap way of making a mistake if you decide to | | | | both your technical knowledge as well as the |
| change your mind and do something else, so there is | | | | software you have available to actually edit your |
| little or no risk. You can get some WordPress | | | | images. If you don't have technical knowledge nor |
| experience through trial and error for very little cost | | | | editing software then you should look for templates |
| that you can take with you to your next website or | | | | that you won't want to edit in any way. This goes |
| just perfect the website you already have. | | | | for self hosted WordPress websites too. |
| For those with a very limited budget is can seem | | | | Also, if you want to offer free reports or audios to |
| that hosting your website at is the best option, as | | | | the visitors of your website, you will be unable to |
| there is no cash outlay, no real technical skills are | | | | upload them to your WordPress site as you don't |
| required and being hosted on the WordPress site you | | | | have hosting access. Depending on how you see |
| would presume it would be very secure so no | | | | your website developing this may or may not affect |
| likelihood of anyone hacking into your website. | | | | your decision on choosing a WordPress hosted |
| However, there are some limitations with this method | | | | website or not. |
| and to understand what they are you need to look | | | | If you want to just get used to WordPress and try |
| further down the life of both your business and your | | | | different things out then by all means register your |
| website. | | | | chosen website at Please note that your URL, or |
| Although there are hundreds of free and paid | | | | web address, will be a subdomain of WordPress, for |
| Wordpress templates available, you may want more | | | | example and it doesn't really give a professional |
| flexibility on how that template looks. You may want | | | | image to your business, however it will make you |
| to change the color scheme or change an image and | | | | more confident using your WordPress website. You |
| customize the WordPress template more to your | | | | can always buy a domain and forward it to your |
| liking and for this you need access to the templates | | | | website if you decide to keep this as your main |
| css (cascading style sheets) files. This is a paid | | | | website. |