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How To Create A 100% Free Website In Less Than 3 Minutes — 6 Comments

  1. Sorry you had trouble creating your first video Alan. You did a great job though explaining how to create a simple free website using WordPress.

    Your blog looks great too. I had actually checked it out before from Steve’s site and this was the first post I read.

    I have a question about WordPress.com that popped into my head while watching the video. When you use it with your own domain name, do you have to pay the $99/year or can you somehow just use your own domain name with the free option?

    • When I was a boy I had some toys called Weebles – ever heard of those?

      Anyways, your question: To use your own domain with WordPress.com actually costs $12 per year – to do so once you have created your free blog xyz.wordpress.com, to map your domain xyz.com go to settings -> Domains and click the blue ‘Add Domain to Blog’ button.

      Personally, though I’m way beyond that now and use a hosted version of wordpress (for several sites, I think as you do) I would advise for anyone starting out to stick with 100% free free free, either wordpress, weebly, google sites or anything else and once they have something and know a bit more about where they want to go etc. with their online presence, take the next step and get some hosting.

      The point of the article was really just to show that you can do it all for free and these days it’s really simple (not so long ago you’d need to know HTML, web design/Dreamweaver plus how to install various components). These days it’s just a few clicks, all done for you and literally anyone can do it.

      Finally the good thing about starting with WordPress is the kind of progression you can make with it is all good learning – i.e. everything you learn from the free version of WordPress can also be applied to a hosted version later if you want to go that way,

      cheers Jay,
      Alan

  2. Great job Alan for your first video. Can’t believe the first of it cut off like that.

    You did great explaining how to create a free blog. I have a free training site that shows people how to create a blogger blog and a self hosted WordPress blog. I hate seeing people struggle with these simple tasks so I just decided to create a free training site to show them how to do a lot of the basic things online. I think so far, most people have found it really helpful.

    Great job explaining and I like the look of your blog. Will have to stop back by and check out more of your content. Until then, have a wonderful day!

    ~Adrienne

    • Hey Adrienne,

      that’s really kind of you to say so. I find it a bit embarrassing to be honest (especially having chopped off the first bit) but honestly was getting so frustrated with it that I wanted to post it anyway, at least as something I can improve upon next time – also because in any case it did prove my little challenge to myself – that I could show people it’s possible to create a free blog in under 3 mins.

      thanks for saying the blog looks good, I think I’m starting to get happy with the way it looks now but it’s forever evolving as my learning seems to be a meandering (and never ending) journey. So that’s my excuse for saying it may look altogether different in a few months!!

      thanks for stopping by & take care,
      Alan

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