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In this course, you’ll build a website so you can start selling physical products, gift vouchers, or virtual products online.
- 23-course videos to follow step by step
- Go from nothing to purchasing a website, hosting and setting up the site within 2-3 hours
- An easy to follow, step by step course, designed for the complete beginner
- Create a beautiful website you are confident to edit and manage
- Start selling online with no previous web development experience
- Support from us if you get stuck
Setting up hosting
- How to buy a web address and register it
- Choosing a cheap but reliable web host for your website
- Logging into your new web host
Installing a security certificate
- Triggering the auto SSL
- What does https mean?
Installing the WordPress software (the easy one click install method)
- How to find the auto installer in your host (CPanel)
- Adding configuration settings
- Installing the base WordPress software and where to find the new website
Adding a Coming Soon page so you can work on the website behind the scenes
- How to log into WordPress
- A quick look at the back end of your website
- How to install the Coming Soon page plugin
- Configuring the Coming Soon page
- Enabling the Coming Soon page, and what that means
- Previewing your Coming Soon page
A run through the WordPress back end
- What are posts, pages, media, plugins, users and settings?
- How to update the admin email
How to install the WooCommerce plugin
- Downloading and activating the plugin
- Startup configuration settings
- Which theme to use for your store
Adding your first product (a variable product, like a Gift Voucher)
- How to create a new product
- Adding attributions and creating variations
- Publishing your first product
Personalising your store
- Adding your logo
- Setting a store notice (notifying visitors of your main website)
Configuring Shipping and Tax
- Setting up tax rates for different zones (GST for Australia)
- Configuring tax settings in WooCommerce
- Checking it’s all working for website visitors
Adding PayPal integration to manage payments
Building the home page
- Deleting the old home page
- Adding the WordPress Installer
- Importing a new (better looking) home page
- Setting the new page as the new default home page
Editing some styles and adding your colours
- Using the What Font Chrome (or Safari) extension to identify font families
- Installing and using Colorzilla Chrome Extension to pick web colours from your current website
- Download the custom code for this step (to clean up the default theme)
Updating your fonts
- How to identify the fonts on your website and where to find them
- How to use the custom code to set your brand fonts across the website
Changing the menu and sidebar for what your business needs
- How to create your own menu and add whatever you like
- How to customize the sidebar
- How to add a cart widget to the sidebar, which only shows when someone adds something to their cart
- Add a Featured Products widget, and how to choose which products show in it
Updating the home page for your needs
- How to change titles and subtitles
- Adding your own background images
- How to add new features and blocks on the page
- Publishing the page and checking it looks good!
How to add a simple product
Testing the order process, and editing email templates
- Temporarily setting Shipping and a product at $0 value to test a purchase
- What email notification your customer gets
- How to edit email templates if you need to
- How to update the admin email for where WooCommerce sends order notifications to
Where to find, and how to manage orders
- Where to find new orders in WordPress
- How to change the order status in the backend
- What a change of status means, and what notification does it send?
- What you need to consider in terms of your offline business process
Adding a Privacy Policy page
- Where to find the Privacy Policy page
- How to update the Privacy Policy page
- Publishing the Privacy Policy page
The easiest way to set up automatic backups you can forget about, but trust!
- Why you want a backup plugin
- Which backup plugin to use?
- Connecting the plugin to Dropbox to store backups (you can use other cloud hosting if you like)
- How to set the plugin to automatically run at regular intervals
How to add essential tracking scripts like Google Analytics and the Facebook Pixel
- Which plugin to use to add your code
- How to add you code to your website using the Head and Footer plugin
Going live with your website
- Turning your Coming Soon page off so the public can view your website
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