Listed below are the 18 steps toward building a business prototype, using a web hosting service and content management software. In terms of technology, this is one path from ‘zero to hero’, assuming no prior experience.
- Log on to web hosting control panel.
- Find the file directory that contains your publicly available web pages. (More advanced: set up an FTP client.)
- Upload an image file to your web hosting account, and make it available on the Internet at your own domain name.
- Upload a document, such as a PDF or Word file, to your web hosting account, and make it available on the Internet at your own domain name.
- Create a web page document that includes the following html tags: title, list, link, and image. Upload the web page document to your web hosting account, and make it available on the Internet at your own domain name.
- Add two style sheet rules (written in CSS) to a web page document. Upload the web page document to your web hosting account, and make it available on the Internet at your own domain name.
- Install a new WordPress site on your web hosting account. Find its web address (URL).
- Log on to administrator control panel (Dashboard) of your new WordPress site.
- Change title, tag line on WordPress site.
- Add new content to WordPress site (one page, and one post).
- Assign a category to content.
- Add an item to the main menu on WordPress site.
- Set home page of WordPress site to be a page you create.
- Change the theme on your WordPress site.
- Add a new widget to your WordPress site.
- Configure and activate a new plugin on your WordPress site.
- Add a new user to your WordPress site.
- Customize a style sheet rule on your WordPress site.
Congrats! You now know just enough to be dangerous…