After about a week and a half of lugging around online forums and watching youtube videos, I’ve finally put up my very own website! I’ve got to say I’m really happy with what it’s resulted in, especially since I had to everything by myself. The bugs and issues will probably start to show up a few days after I leave this thing to run on its own, but nevertheless, I’m really excited that I’ve got this all set up now. Previously I had a Wix site, and then a Squarespace one. Both those platforms allow for a very hands-on experience with not ay coding experience required. It was really neat to use something like that back then but now that I’m growing as an author I realized I need a more robust set-up for myself. Hence the shift to a WordPress website.
Anyway, I know a lot of authors usually put off doing something like this mainly because it’s a pain to figure out all the logistics for every little piece that goes into creating a website. (I know because I was the exactly the same). There’s hosting, domain, platform, theme and so on So for all those out there that are currently in the same kind of mindset I was in before, I’ll be writing up a blog post on the whole process I took to get this website to where it is right now. I’ll try to get screen captures for each section as well because those are what I found most helpful. Stay tuned!