building a website doesn't have to be timec consuming or complicated in this video we are going to walk you through the quickest and the easiest way to create a professional looking website using Dy so whether you are a beginner or an experienced designer Dy makes the entire process simple and efficient so if that sounds interesting then let's dive in now before we proceed I would like to mention that all the tools resources plugins that we are going to talk about in this video we have added links to everything in the video description below so just in case if you want to check out details about any one of them then head over to the video description below and there you will find all the relevant links and some of them might be our affiliate links so if in case you do any purchase using these links we might earn a little bit of Kickback which is not going to cost you anything extra but it going to help us create more helpful and free content just like [Music] this so let's talk about the step number one that is booking our business domain now a domain is your online identity for your business which people are going to search online in order to find your business on the internet so we need to make sure that the domain that we are going to book for our business should reflect the identity of our business so before you go ahead and book your business domain make sure you check few things number one make sure you book a domain name which is exact match of your business or your brand name so that it's easy for your offline customers to find your business Business Online number two make sure you always go for a doom domain extension first but in case ifom domain extension is not available for your business or your brand name then you can look for other domain extensions as well but your first priority should always be aom domain extension number three and this one is really important make sure you book a domain from a website which gives you free domain privacy which means all the contact information that you provide while booking your domain will always be kept private with the domain register otherwise your contact information will be visible publicly and you are going to get a lot of spam emails and phone calls and I'm sure as a business owner you don't want to spend time handling that so that's why you should always book your domain from a website which allows free domain privacy and for this one we always recommend website like namecheap. com which offers a wide variety of domain extensions at some amazing prices and above all you get a domain private for free of cost for Lifetime and if you want to get some exclusive deals on the domain that you're going to book make sure you check out the link in the video description below and once you click on that link you will land up on page like this one and here you just need to type in your business name so let's say we try to book this domain and we are going to search for a. com extension and once we enter the desired domain name we just need to click on search to check if the domain is available or not and this one shows available so we can just go ahead and click on add to cart and then click on our cart on the top right corner and let's click on view card so on this cart page we can see we are going to book this domain for one year and along with that we are also getting a domain privacy for free of cost forever which means that whenever we are going to renew our domain we are going to get the domain privacy free so you don't have to spend anything extra to protect your privacy and once everything looks fine you can just go ahead and click on confirm order and you will be redirected on the checkout page where you can do the payment using your credit card or maybe you can use PayPal as [Music] well now let's move on to the next step that is booking our website hosting now think of web hosting as your website's home it stores your website files and makes them accessible to your visitors now there are various hosting providers available including side ground pressible flywheel and cloudways as you can see here on our TV hosting page now these providers offer hosting designed for WordPress and Dy so an optimized WordPress hosting ensures that your website is fast safe and well equipped to run WordPress and these hosts are designed to run Dy flawlessly now off the four we are going with side ground because it offers the most value for money which is great for a beginner side ground offers free email site migration SSL certificate and oneclick WordPress install if you want to learn more about the web hosting that we recommend make sure you check out the link in the video description below or you can visit elegant them.
com hosting now in order to get best deals with the sideg ground hosting plans make sure you click on the link in the video description below and this is going to take you to the sideg ground website and here you can just click on get started and choose your suitable plan so let's say we go with startup plan which starts with $2. 99 per month so let's click on get plan now some website hosting company also provide a free domain for first year and that's the case with sideg ground as well if you want to book a new domain you can enter the domain here and then click on continue and you will get a free domain for first year but in case if you have already purchased your domain you can go ahead and click on existing domain and then enter your domain name here and then click on continue so you can enter your existing domain name here and then click on continue and after that you will have this checkout page where you first need to enter your account information so here you can enter your email address a strong password to create your s ground account and after that you just need to enter some client information and after that we have the payment information where we can enter our card details and if we scroll down at the very bottom here we can see the order summary says we are getting this hosting plan for one year for 35 . 88 only so you can go ahead and do the payment and complete the checkout process and I'll see you on the other [Music] side all right so after booking our hosting provider it's time to install WordPress on it now there are various Ways by which you can install WordPress but thanks to the autoinstall feature of sideg ground which helps you install WordPress in just a few clicks let me show you how so once we are done with the purchase of our hosting plan we will see this dashboard once we login in our side ground account and from here we need to go to websites and this is the panel where it will show all the websites that we are going to host with this hosting plan so as we are going to add a new one so we click on new website and here we again get an option to book a new domain or we can link our existing domain with this Hosting account or if you want to just see how everything works how you can use the hosting panel and various other stuff you can use the temporary domain from here and once you connect your domain we will land up on this page where we can either start a new website or we can migrate already existing WordPress website to our s ground account but right now we are going to build everything from scratch so we are going to click on start new website and then click on select from here and after that we can choose whatever application we want to install so here we have option for WordPress we can install WordPress along with vcommerce that is the e-commerce plugin for WordPress or we can also to install webly site Builder but right now let's go ahead and install WordPress from here so we click on select and here we need to enter the email address that we are going to use to login in our WordPress setup and after that we need to enter the password to login in our WordPress back end so I would highly recommend that you go ahead and click on generate so that you can have a strong password for your login and after that we just need to click on continue and after that we have an option to add Sid scanner as an additional service so we can go and skip that and click on finish now it's going to take a few seconds to do all the backend stuff and we will be ready with our fresh WordPress copy installed on our sideg ground hosting server all right so we are done with our setup and here we have three options we can go and visit the front end of our website so let's click on this so this is how the WordPress front end looks like and we are going to customize everything here and after that we have an option to access the WordPress back end so we can click on this this and it will take us to the WordPress back end but let's go ahead and click on websites and here we have our website which we have just created on the side ground hosting server so in order to log in in the WordPress backend we can simply choose the WordPress admin button right here let's click on this and this is going to redirect us to the back end of our WordPress setup so here is the welcome screen of Wordpress starter from sideg ground itself so let's click on exit this Wizard and here we are in a fresh copy of our a WordPress [Music] setup all right so once we are done with setting up WordPress on our hosting server it's time to install the D theme now in order to download the D theme we need to go to elegant them.
com and here if you have not purchased the DV them yet you can go ahead and click on the pricing plan here and here you will get two pricing plans along with that you can also check the lifetime price for the DV theme and you can check out all the details about the pricing plan and choose the one which suits best for your requirement if you want to use the power of DV aai then you need to go for the D Pro Plan which is right now at $277 per year and once you are done with the purchase you just need to click on my accounts and then click on product downloads and it's going to take you to the members area and in the themes and plugin section here you can see the download Dy theme button so let's click on this and this is going to download the zip file for the Dy theme and once we have downloaded the zip file we now need to go back to our WordPress backend and go to appearance and then click on themes and here right now we have the default 2024 theme so let's go ahead and click on add new theme and then we will click on upload and then we will choose the zip file that we have just downloaded so let's click on this and here is a ZIP file that we have just downloaded let's select that that and then click on install now all right so now the theme is installed let's go ahead and activate the DV theme so we are going to click on activate button from here and now we have installed DV theme on our WordPress [Music] setup now the next step is to activate the DV license so that we can start using the DV theme on this website now in order to activate our license key we can go to the left hand side navigation and here we have theme options let's click on that and from here we need to go to updates and here we need to enter our username as well as our API key so once again we need to go to elegant them.