How do I set up a website? How do I get a domain? Is wordpress hard to learn?

Question

You can do this!

You can jump into web design & web development if you set your mind to it and believe in your self. Just take IT Web Development/Web Design in little pieces. You will eventually find out it would take you a lifetime to learn everything. Once you learn the basics then you will realize where you want to focus your energy on. I am familiar with setting up local development environments and deploying live. I know my way around wordpress and the concerns of security and vulnerability issues.

Answer 1

There's a few different ways to go about settings up your first website. I hear wix these days is all the rave. But it really depends on how deep you are willing to dive in to learning HTML and scripting languages.

Getting a domain is pretty simple, as Court mentioned there is GoDaddy, but there are a few other services as well, such as Namecheap. I believe GoDaddy will also offer web hosting. It may make sense to find a hosting provider that will help you set all of this up. DNS management can be pretty confusing, if you're not familiar with this stuff.

Wordpress isn't exactly the easiest thing, nor the most difficult. It's designed to give you a functioning site with some back end functionality. It is also a very good starting point for a would be PHP developer. So I would recommend it for that. But for me learning web stuff for the first time started with me setting up a web server locally (IIS at the time) and reading up what I needed to do to put it all together piece by piece. Until I started actually writing ASP code and seeing how it all worked.

So, by the time I saw something like Wordpress, I already had an understanding of how back end scripting languages work, what templating languages were, and how to generate a pages HTML. I think in the end, having a strong grasp of Web Technology concepts first will take you further, and then the question of Wordpress being difficult to learn will become moot.

Answer 2

There are many tools today that make designing a website easy! If you’re new to design and development think about using tools like Squarespace or Wix to start building your site. These tools come with pre designed “blocks” that you can plug and play.

When you are ready to publish your site, you can buy a domain directly with in one of the services I listed above, or use a website like Go Daddy.

There are infinite possibilities for your website, but start small and do some experimentation, you’ll get the hang of it!