WordPress Websites Step-by-Step - The Complete Beginner's Guide to Building a Website or Blog With WordPress

Written for the complete beginner, it's an easy-to-follow, visual guide to building a website from scratch using the free WordPress publishing platform. You won't need to learn any web programming or turn yourself into a computer geek.

What is WordPress?

WordPress is a powerful publishing tool that's the single most popular way of publishing websites and blogs. It's used by Fortune 500 companies, startups, small businesses, bloggers and non-profits alike to build a professional presence on the web.

Because WordPress lets you add and edit content through a web-based admin area, it's easier to use then you might imagine. In fact, you can build a great-looking site without being a web designer or computer geek. You can edit your website design as much as you like and add new features with a few clicks of the mouse, or you can use the default design for an equally professional-looking site.

In plain English, this step-by-step book, written by a WordPress expert, helps you buy a domain name, get web hosting and set up WordPress so you can make a beautiful website or blog.

Clear explanations and over 55 images of the admin screens and tools mean you can see exactly how to do all this.

What you'll learn in WordPress Step-by-Step

*How to choose a great domain name and get professional, reliable hosting

* How to install WordPress in a few mouse clicks

* How to publish posts and pages with correctly formatted text

* How to give your website a professional touch by using images and videos

* How to customize the design of your site without needing to be a programmer

* How to extend your site even further with "plugins"

* How to structure your site so you'll get found by Google

* How to keep your website secure

* How to solve the most common WordPress problems

...and more.

There's also a free bonus chapter on getting the first visitors to your site.

Plus, the book is packed with links to additional resources and free design themes and plugins to help you build a website on a budget.

By the time you've read the book you'll have a unique, professional and easy-to-use website to be proud of - and you'll have created it yourself!

Important: This book is currently the most up-to-date WordPress book available on Amazon. Some of the older WordPress books were published more than a year ago - a lot has changed since then. This guide describes how to use the latest version of WordPress (3.5).

Whether you want to build a simple website for your company or organization, make money with a blog or a full online store, this non-geek guide will get you online quickly.