STEP #1: Choose Your Website Platform This is the first step of creating your own website. Before you start worrying about colour schemes and domain name and web hosting, you’ve got to decide what platform you’re going to build your website with. What do I mean by “platform”? Well, back in 2004 when I got started with web development, most sites were built using HTML (code), CSS and even Flash. These took a lot of time to learn and were tricky to master. That’s why most people still think creating a website from scratch is difficult or requires a lot of coding and design skills – but that’s no longer true! In 2016, content management systems (CMS) like WordPress have made creating a website accessible to everyone. To put simply, a content management system (or website building platform) is a user-friendly platform for building websites and managing your own online content, instead of using a bunch of loose HTML pages. Most Popular Site Building Platforms in 2017 Image and data ...
After researching virtually every host in the industry, we eventually settled on WP Engine – and we couldn’t be happier. Here are 5 of the reasons why we think WP Engine is the best WordPress host: 1. Speed Moving to WP Engine is going to speed up your website. When we switched from our old host to WP Engine, our website went from fully loading in over 5 seconds to under .1 seconds. The speed improvement not only improves the user experience, but also our organic search rankings as Google includes page load speed in their search algorithm. There are two main reasons for the speed improvement. WP Engine’s exclusive EverCache Technology features a caching technology on their servers. EverCache helps load your pages up lightning fast. This also ends the need for caching plugins, such as WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache. In fact, WP Engine will not allow you to have these plugins installed. Many WordPress users face increased load time due to a large number of plugins combined w...