Now that you have completed the initial planning required to create a niche money making website, its time to bring it to the internet and make it a reality.

To make this sometimes complicated step simpler, I will break it into parts.

Step 2.1 Finding a Webhost

For the computer illiterate, this step involving domains and servers is often confusing. If you understand how the internet works and know what kind of service you need, or have completed this step previously, feel free to skip this section.

While some people prefer to buy webspace and domains separately, I feel like it is easier to manage multiple websites from an all in one service such as 1and1. For 3 dollars a month, they will give you 5 gigabytes of space (more than enough for at least 100+ websites), 10 databases (You will see why this is important later in the guide), and 250 gigabytes of monthly bandwidth (amount of data that can be sent and recieved each month). There are many other great alternatives, feel free to leave a comment about providers you suggest and I add them the list of webhosts.

Step 2.2 Creating your Website

Now that you have purchased webspace, its time to put it to use. lets begin by downloading the parts that we will be using for our website.

• WordPress - A content management system that will make it really easy to add pages, links, and manage your website design.
• FileZilla - A decent open source FTP Program. You can use any FTP program you like. I prefer FlashFXP.

Wordpress setup:

1. Install your FTP program of choice (If you cant do this by yourself, email me).
2. Connect to your website with the username and password provided by your webspace provider (If this wasn’t given to you, call customer service and ask, they love to help you).
3. Unzip the wordpress zip file you downloaded earlier.
4. Open the folder and right click on the file named “wp-config-sample.php” and click rename and rename the file to “wp-config.php”
5. Right click on the file now named “wp-config.php” and then click “open with…” in the dialog box that pops up select WordPad.
6. Minimize the file that is now opened in WordPad
7. Go to and login to the administration panel of your webspace provider, if your following in my footsteps and registered with 1and1, here.
   These next few steps are 1and1 specific and will vary depending on your service
8. In the “Administration” tab of the administration panel, click “MySQL Administration” in the “Websites & Applications” section.
9. Click “New Database” and for the description of your database put the topic of your website.
10. Go back to the file that you minimized previously and replace “wordpress” with the Database name provided, ie. “db192910739″.
11. Replace “username” with the User name provided, ie. “dbo192910739″.
12. Replace “password” with the Password provided, ie. “kHhX4ax3″.
13. Replace “localhost” with the Host name provided, ie. “db621.perfora.net”
14. Save the file and close it.
15. Go up one directory and rename the “wordpress” folder to a word or acronym that defines your website topic.
16. Upload the folder that you just renamed to your webspace using your FTP program. This may take a while.
17. Go back to the Administration Panel and click Domains
18. Click on the domain you are working on.
19. Click the “edit” button next to “Destination”
20. For “Home Directory” select “Existing directory”
21. For “Existing directory” select /yourRenamedWordpressFolder
22. Click the “Ok” button to save the settings
23. Go to your website url. ie. “http://moneytaryweb.com” and click the link to “install.php”
24. Follow the installation steps, it is very simple
25. Take note of your username and password, then click the link to “wp-login.php”
26. For simplicity sake, we will now change the password. After you have logged in, click “Users” and update the information as you feel neccesary.
27. Congratulations Wordpress setup is complete. If you go to your website url you will now see the default wordpress blog.
28. If you want to take the time you can now install what I deem necessary WordPress Add-ons or plugins.

Step 2.3 Choosing a Template

Now that you have Wordpress setup, the personalization begins. We will start by finding a theme for our website.

Templates can be downloaded from:

• ThemeViewer - The offical WordPress Theme archive.
• Alex King’s WordPress Theme Browser - A large variety of Themes that can easily be browsed.
• Kaushal Sheth’s WordPress Themes - Many decent themes.

How To Install a Template:

1. Once you have found a Theme that suits your website, download it and unzip it if necessary.
2. Open your FTP program and connect to your website
3. Open your “wordpress” folder
4. Open the “wp-content” folder
5. Open the “themes” folder
6. Upload your downloaded Theme to the “themes” folder
7. Go to your WordPress Administration Panel. ie. “http://yourUrl.com/wp-admin/”
8. Once you’ve logged in, click Presentation
9. Click on the theme you downloaded
10. Check to see if the change took effect by clicking “View site”

Step 2.4 Putting in Content

Now That we have our site looking the way we want, its time to start putting in the content.
The following guides will help you through the process:

• How to add a post
• How to edit/delete a post
• How to add a page
• How to edit/delete a page
• The difference between a page and a post
• How to add a link to the sidebar
• How to edit/delete a link from the sidebar

On to Step 3

Now that you have built your site, you are ready for step 3, publicize.