When you start your online business you probably want to set it up as economically as possible and this also includes setting up of your website as well. For those who are just starting out online, WordPress is the platform of choice, you can create a website without a budget and hiring someone, WordPress offers the cheapest and most versatile option.
It’s a great idea to set up your first website in WordPress for many reasons. Set up a WordPress website, if you are not sure about which business to go into, whether it is hosted or self-hosted, is an economical way of making a mistake. You can get some WordPress experience through trial and error kind of homework for very little cost which you can take with you to your next website venture or just enhance the website you already have.
For those people who have very tight budget can explore hosting website at WordPress.com which is the best option, as there is no cash required, not much technical skills required and being hosted on the WordPress website you can presume it is in safe hands and would be very secure so no chances of your website getting hacked ! But remember one thing; there are limitations with this method, to understand them you need to look further down the life of both your business and your website.
Even though hundreds of free and paid WordPress templates are available, you might want more flexibility on look and feel of the templates. To change the color scheme or change an image and customize the WordPress template as per your need for this you need to access the templates css files. Now, this is a paid enhancement option and only for those websites which are hosted at WordPress.com.
You can have a variety of options in many WordPress templates. With these options you can edit the template from dashboard provided by WordPress. Just look out for these within the "add new template" option on your dashboard. To edit an image or a header and that option doesn't appear in within the template dashboard, you need access to the images located in the hosting file, which you do not have access to. It’s advisable to be aware of this. One more thing which you need to take is both your technical skills and the software you choose to edit your images. Remember, if you don't have technical knowledge and editing software in that case you should only look for templates which you won't want to edit in any way. This is applicable to self hosted WordPress websites too.
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