How to Build a Free Teen Website

Quickly set up your teen website on Wordpress for free

Although there are a few companies that offer free website hosting, these packages are usually supported by unattractive ads that take up the top part of your site as well as very limited options. Wordpress is a blogging platform that allows you to create and customize your own teen website for free. You have complete control over all aspects of your site, including custom domain names, coding and any files you want to upload and share. If you are a complete beginner, Wordpress also makes it very easy to set up an attractive teen website using all of its available themes, and its interface is simple to navigate and use.

Instructions

1. Go to wordpress.com and click "Sign Up." Enter a username, password, and email address. Agree to the Wordpress terms and conditions, and make sure that "Gimme a blog" is selected. Click "Next."

2. Enter the preferred domain of your teen site. The default address is yourusername.wordpress.com. You can change the first part of the URL to anything you want, but wordpress.com will always come after it. Enter the title of your new site and your language. If you want a public teen website with Google and other search engines indexing it, leave that option checked in the "Privacy" section. If you want a private teen website, click to deselect that option. Click "Sign Up."

3. Check your email inbox. Wordpress sends an email to you that you must confirm in order to activate your account. If you do not activate your account within 2 days, you will have to go through the sign-up process again. Click the link in the email to activate your account. Once you have finished the activation, click "log in" and enter the username and password you signed up with. You will be taken to the administrative dashboard of your new teen site.

4. On the left navigation panel, click "Settings" to change the options for your website. You can control almost every aspect of your teen website including the name and slogan, the privacy settings and any other options regarding posts and comments.

5. Change the presentation of your site by going to "Appearance" on the left navigation panel. Click "Themes" to see all of the available templates. Click the drop-down menu to further filter the themes and to find one that best suits your teen concept. Click your selected theme to preview it and then select "Activate" in the top right corner to apply it to your site.

6. Add content to your teen website. Wordpress offers two options: Posts and Pages. Posts are used for blogging. The first page of your website will be a collection of all of your recent posts in chronological order, which means your site will always be changing based upon each new post you write. Pages are static web pages where you can post information that does not change, for example an "About Me" or "Contact" page. To create a new post, go to "Posts" on the left navigation panel and click "Add new." To create a new page, go to "Pages" and select "Add new."

Resources

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