Introduction
The Income Passport series of books takes you step by step through the processes I have used to create a passive income online, and consequently set myself up for life. I am no longer a slave to the wage, trading my time for money. I can now leverage my time, and work as much or [...]
Registering a Domain Name
Chapter 02 – Domain Names
The very first step in building your website is to register a domain name. A domain name is simply the technical term for the address of a particular website on the Internet; the domain name tells your browser where to access the web page you want to see.
For example, google.com and [...]
Foreword
Welcome to the first book in my Income Passport series, DIY Websites.
Congratulations! You are now on your way to earning thousands of dollars each month, right from the comfort of your own home.
Upon completing this book, you will have learned all the skills necessary to build your very own, full-featured website, which is the first [...]
What Next?
Chapter 13 – What Next?
Congratulations! You have made it to the end. This proves you are serious about using the Internet as a business medium to change your life.
By now, you will have learned how to build a website quickly and easily. You are no longer reliant on slow and expensive web developers. Everything you [...]
Your First Sale
Chapter 12 – Your First Sale
By now, you’ve monetized your website using Google Adsense. Google Adsense is a good way of off-setting the cost of your website, but it is difficult to make large sums of money using unless your website has thousands of pages and gets a large number of visitors.
The next level of [...]
Google Adsense
Chapter 11 – Google Adsense
Now that your website is online, you can begin to “monetize” your content. Remember the example from the introduction about making money for writing in your diary? Well this is how you do it.
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Writing an Article
Chapter 10 – Writing an Article
Now that all the technical configuration and setup items are out of the way, you can finally get down to some web page building!
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Installation
Chapter 08 – Installation
We are now at the half way point. At this stage, all the preparation for building your website has been completed. You should now have the following:
Domain Name
Hosting Account
Database
FTP Client
Wordpress Software
At this time, we will suspend the “What is [..]“, “Why you need [..]“, and “How to [..]” format of the book.
The [...]
Setup and Configuration
Chapter 09 – Setup and Configuration
Wordpress, your Content Management System, should now be installed.
When you open your domain in a browser now, you will see your first website online! Looks great, doesn’t it? Actually, it looks sort of ordinary. But that’s okay! In this chapter, you are going to completely customize your new website, and [...]
Wordpress
Chapter 07 – Welcome to Wordpress
By now, you would have done most of the preparation needed to start building your new website. We are finally getting to the exciting part! Your website is about to start taking shape.
You will use a program called Wordpress to create your website.
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