The vast majority of websites today are created using WordPress, which is a free, open-source online website builder. Okay, it's true: when I say 'free' it's both a truth and a lie, but more on that later in the article.
But let's talk about the topic that interests you: how to get to the site easily and quickly via WordPress? In short: very difficult, but in detail:
The first and most important thing you need is the vision of the site. What do you need a website for, what is its content, what information should it contain and what is its purpose. After you have figured out the main purpose of your new site, you need a design. Do not start creating a WordPress site without a design - it will take you much more time and the end result will be worse than if you had created the design first. You can do the design itself with a regular pencil on classic A4 paper or use one of the tools (Photoshop, Figma - which is becoming more and more popular for designing, or some third-party program...).
So, you have a vision, you have a design - I'm moving on! I'll let you in on a little secret - immediately buy hosting and a domain on which you will run your site. Of course, you also have free hosting + domains here, but keep in mind that they must have MySQL database support, PHP 7.2 (or a higher version), and HTTPS support. Plus, free hosting is usually slower, less reliable and/or with advertisements on your future site - therefore, my sincere recommendation: lease some hosting, at least for a year; your life will be much easier.
But why did I even recommend you to get hosting right away? You've probably heard that you can run your WP site locally, on your computer. That's true, but once you've created it, you need to move it to your online hosting so that other people can visit it. And believe me, from personal experience – moving a WP site is a tedious, time-consuming and difficult job; especially if your site is large. Without going into details, the MySQL database itself is difficult to transfer if you are just getting into WP waters; you have to manually change the links so that they no longer look at your local host on the computer, but at the online links of the leased hosting where your site will be. Save yourself time and nerves, rent a host immediately after the design.
Okay, we have the vision of the site, we have the design and we have the hosting. From the official WP site (www.wordpress.org) download the latest version of WP, which you unzip and upload to your hosting. We're not going to talk about uploading now, if you don't know how to upload, I'll just recommend the FileZilla program or one of the many online guides for the program (maybe even your new hosting has a guide for uploading files to it). Then open the control panel of your hosting and create a MySQL database (I can't help you here because it depends on the hosting, what kind of interface it has and how databases are created). Then open the link of your site in the browser and, if you have correctly uploaded the stuff from the wordpress.zip file you downloaded from the WordPress site, the link will ask you to start the installation. This is an easy process because it only asks you for the identity of your site and your MySQL data (which you created a few minutes ago via the control panel).
And after installation, log in to the WordPress control panel (located at www.vašastranica.com/wp-admin<— for example) and start editing your page according to the planned design. Eh, now here comes the fact that wordpress is not really free - but only if you want a quality and good site. The themes are paid for, the tools you use are also paid for (specifically AWESOME tool: DIVI 3.0…). You can find free stuff, but it's free for a reason - stripped down versions of paid tools; or have advertisements; they perform worse; bad looking themes... Again, from experience, it is better to buy the right theme, the right tools and save yourself nerves and time.
I made a little announcement so we'll jump to conclusion:
WordPress is an amazing site builder. Powerful and quite easy to understand. BUT (be careful, 'but' is in capital letters) save yourself some space for getting annoyed. Even if you are an expert in WordPress, there will always be something that doesn't work, and logically it should work and it worked before. There will be problems and Google will be your best friend in the project of creating a WP site. Not only that, it will take time, a lot of time - even if the site seems simple. Plus, your design and the site you're working on in WP may not look the same, or even similar. You will have to change things, adapt, see what WP can and can't do. I don't want to scare you (I would recommend WP to everyone), but creating a WordPress site will take time, it will be annoying, it will change...
Of course, if you want an EVEN easier solution, we are always here. Fortuno has experts who have created a bunch (maybe too many?) of WP sites. We ran into countless problems and solved them; we have turned our beautiful designs into reality. Contact us, we will create your site for you. And to brag a little more, here are a couple of links, pages we made for our clients (except for the first link, it's our page):
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