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How to Make a Website in Four Minutes

2010-05-21 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Internet & YouTube · advice recommendation

Hank, a former professional web developer, shows step by step how to get a domain, hosting and a working WordPress site with under four minutes of work and about $80, and floats a how-to week.

What is said

00:00:00 — Hank's past jobs; people keep asking him for website help, so he will show how in 3:30

  • ★★ Hank says he has been a biochemist, an environmental blogger, a social media consultant, a videographer and a Walmart associate, and for a long time a professional web developer. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Because people still often ask him to help set up websites, Hank says he will show how to set up a website in three minutes and 30 seconds. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Hank says anyone who follows his steps will have a website by the end of the day, with about three minutes of work and about $80. — 00:00:00

00:00:29 — Why a fast website matters to him; finding a domain on bustaname.com and buying hosting at AN Hosting

  • ★★★ Hank says making a website has always been his first step in realising an idea: once it is online it has a life of its own, so getting one up fast matters. (hedged) — 00:00:29
  • ★★ Hank checks domain availability at bustaname.com, then buys hosting at anhosting.com, which includes a free domain, rather than registering the domain with GoDaddy. — 00:00:29
  • ★★ Hank calls AN Hosting his go-to host for startups for about five years: no customer-service waits, very little downtime, and cheap. — 00:00:58
  • ★ Hank pays for 12 months rather than two years because he doesn't know whether an idea will be worth anything in a year, though two years would save $40. — 00:00:58

00:01:27 — Waiting for the account setup; affiliate referral disclosure

  • ★ Hank says AN Hosting quotes up to 24 hours to set up the account and link the domain, but it has never taken him longer than two hours. — 00:01:27
  • ★★ Hank discloses that AN Hosting has an affiliate referral system: if viewers sign up through the description link he gets a referral fee. — 00:01:27

00:01:56 — Installing WordPress via cPanel and Softaculous and uploading a theme

  • ★★ Hank says everyone these days uses WordPress to build a great, powerful, simple website because WordPress is excellent. — 00:01:56
  • ★★ Hank sets the site up through cPanel with AN Hosting's one-click WordPress installer Softaculous, advising viewers to leave the install directory blank rather than the default 'WP'. — 00:01:56
  • ★★ Hank finds a theme by searching Google, picks the most popular one, uploads it via cPanel's file manager into wp-content/themes, extracts it and selects it under Appearance. — 00:02:26 · Google

00:03:24 — Finished site; proposes a how-to week and asks for suggestions; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank says that with less than four minutes of work he now has a working WordPress site at 4MinuteSite.com. — 00:03:24
  • ★★ Hank says he enjoyed making a how-to video and suggests making next week how-to week. (hedged) — 00:03:24
  • ★★ Hank asks viewers to leave suggestions in the comments for things they want to learn that John or he know how to do. — 00:03:24 · John Green

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