Did you know that you can build your own website. It's easy way that you can build a website, you need two tools for build website are Wordpress and WampServer. Both of tools are open source software that you don't need to buy or pay, it is easy to use.
You need to do step by step
1- Install WampServer
2- Install Wordpress
3- Start build your Website
But before of this some of peoples may be don't know yet about Wordpress and WampServer.
So i will explain below about both of this tool. (skip for who know about this tool)
-What is Wordpress?
Wordpress started in 2003. It is an online or offline, open source website that written in PHP language. But in non-geek speak. It's easiest and most powerful for build blogging and website content management system(CMS) and so much more through the thousands of plugins and widgets and themes. You need to download and install it similar other software.
Please note that, if you install Wordpress on you computer, only you can see the site. If you have a live Wordpress site available to the public, then you need to have a domain and Wordpress hosting.
-What is WampServer?
WampServer or WAMP is a tool for designed to allow you to create web application and manage your server and database. WampServer is a popular Windows Web development environment that allow you to created Web application with Apache2, PHP, and MySQL. It also come with PHPMyAdmin and SQLiteManager.
Wordpress run depend on your local machine have WampServer is a server software to run. There are not only have WampServer for run with Wordpress, such as XAMPP is server too but we are recommend use WampServer it's free and easy to use.
-Download and Install WampServer
The first thing is go to download the latest version of WampServer in
WampServer website.
In WampServer website click on "
DOWNLOAD" tab, there are have two version of software.
Simply choose the one that applies to your Windows (
64-bit or 32-bit) if you in doubt, select
32-bit version because it will work on 64-bit Windows.
When you click download a warning message will display, clik on "
download directly" and you will be redirect to SourceForge website and the download will automatic start in 5 seconds
After you downloaded WampServer, run the installation program and follow on-screen instruction.
At one point during the installation, it will ask you for the location of the default browser. The default use Internet Explorer. During installation it will ask you location path folder for WampServer. The default is "
c:\wamp"
-Check WampServer is Running or Not
If you click "
Finish" and the software doesn't launch or popup any error issues, it might be that you don't have the Microsoft Visual C++ libraries installed on your computer. This file is very important for PHP and Apache.
Download file "
VC10 SP1 vcredist_x86.exe" for
Windows 32-bit
Download file "
VC10 SP1 vcredist_x64.exe" for
Windows 64-bit
If you don't have any problem after you click "Finish" the WampServer will launch and icon will appear in the system tray
You can see the color of WampServer Red, Orage and Green, all of this color will let you know about the status of server is working or not.
- Red: mean your server isn't running and is offline. You may need to restart WampServer or reinstall it again or check out in the WampServer forum for help.
- Orage: mean the server is partially running like Apache running and MySQL not running. Click on WampServer icon and Check the service status next to Apache and MySQL to see it they are running.
If your computer have Skype installed, it may conflict Apache and Skype on port 80. So you need to open Skype and go to "Tools", click "Option", click "Advanced" and then "Connection" uncheck the box "Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for inconming connection" save option and and restart Skype.
- Green: mean your service has been successful started and you can access localhost from your browser
Now open your browser and type in the address bar "localhost" press enter and you will see WampServer homepage

-Create Database for your Wordpress
You need to create database file for store everything in database when you install Wordpress. Just create the database file name is enough.
Click on the WampServer icon in your system tray and then click on "phpMyAdmin". It will open new browser automatically with phpMyAdmin interface.
Click on "Database" tab on the top-left panel or click "New" on the top-right panel to create new database. You can enter the database name up to you want. I will enter "mysite_db"

-Download and Install Wordpress
Download the latest version of Wordpress from
Wordpress.org. Extract the zip file and copy and paste to WampServer folder (
c:\wamp\www). You can rename Wordpress folder to anything you want. In this tutorial i rename to "
mysite"
Now open your browser and type in address bar one the top to "http://localhost/mysite/"
The first screen for you is select the language for your WordPress. The default selected is "English"
Click "
Continue" button to go second screen
The second screen just the information that WordPress will get your information about database name, username, password, host and table prefix in the next screen to create file "
wp-config.php" file
Now click button "
Let's go!" to continue third screen.
The third screen need to enter database connection details
- Database Name: the name of database that you create on the top name "mysite_db"
- User name: the default database username is "root"
- Password: leave the password blank, no need to type anything.
- Database host: keep it default "localhost"
- Table Prefix: keep it default "wp_"
Click on "
Submit" button, Wordpress will create a configuration file for you.
The fourth screen is just informing you about Wordpress has successfully created the configuration file.
Click "Run the install" to continue install
The fifth screen is give you fill out the installation form for your site
- Site Title: enter the title of your wbsite about
- Username: enter your username for login into Wordpress admin
- Password: enter your password for login into admin page
- Your E-mail: enter your email address
- Search Engine Visibility: tick on "Discourage search engines from indexing this site"
Click button "
Install WordPress" to continue install
Wordpress will install quickly and create database table into your database file that you just created "mysite_db".
When it's done, you will see successful message and you can click Log in button to processed to your Wordpress admin page.
Click button "
Log In" to continue WordPress Admin page
Now you need to log in use your username and password that you input in the fifth screen
Click button "Log In" to go Dashboard WordPress
Now you can enjoy to create your website on your local machine. You can download many template of website and plugins or create page for customize your website to the best.
After you build your website ready you can buy a Web hosting and Domain and export your site to your Web hosting.