By Tiara Rea

If you haven’t heard, Lunarpages launched LP Quicksite a couple months ago, as a solution for new customers who need a fast, simple solution to create their website. We have received wonderful feedback on Quicksite, and our customers are helping us make it even better every day, but I thought it might be nice for those of you interested in setting up your first website (but possibly too scared to take the plunge) to see how easy it really is.

How to Create Your First Website

First, decide on a really awesome name. If this is for your personal website, see if yourname.com is available. If this is a website for your business or an ecommerce website, see if your business’s name is available in .com form. If not, try adding “online” to the end of it – i.e. if your business is called Lovely Boots, try LovelyBootsOnline.com. If your business is incorporated, try adding “inc” to the end: i.e. LovelyBootsInc.com

Once you have your name, you’ll want to pick a template or the design of your website. This is the best part, I think, because you get to browse the templates we offer in LP Quicksite – right now there are about 100 to choose from, but we’re adding new ones every day. These templates are organized into categories so that you can find them easily, so if you’re looking for a template on Nature or Books or Education or Weddings, we’ve got you covered. Here’s a quick peek inside of the template system:

As you can see, you can not only choose the right template but customize its color scheme as well! And if you don’t like a template in a month, you can always change it back again.

Lastly, you’re going to want to type up some content for your website. If you’re not ready to write everything, no worries! You can login at any time to create, edit, or delete text, pictures, links, and more. I would recommend at least a brief message letting your viewers know your website is in the process of being created. If you don’t have time to write one up, here’s a quick template for you to use:

Welcome to YourDomainName.com. This website is currently undergoing some construction but will be available shortly. If you have any questions at all, please feel free to email me at Email@YourDomainName.com
-Your Name Here

Once you’ve entered some content, just click the button that says “Publish” and your website will instantly be viewable online!! It’s honestly that easy. And the best thing about Quicksite is that not only can you have your website up in 2 hours or less but we’ll help you get it there at no additional charge! 

Extra ‘Advanced’ Website Features

Quicksite is meant to be a quick and simple website solution, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do all the really cool stuff with it that you can on our Basic or Business Web Hosting Plans. So here’s a quick rundown of special advanced website features you can find on LP Quicksite:

Blogging Tools – Do you like to blog? We love it here at Lunarpages, so we created our own blogging platform that makes it incredibly easy to post daily news, stories, journal entries, or to share information with your family and friends. You can post pictures, add links, and format your text just like you would using Microsoft Word! Pretty nifty.

Photo Gallery – If you like sharing photos, you’ll love the Photo Gallery feature on LP Quicksite. Easily upload and describe your photos and sort them into galleries that you can post on your website.

Shopping Cart – Do you need to sell products or services? Our Quicksite Shopping Cart tools make it easy to upload product images, set up categories, and even integrate PayPal, Google Checkout, or other systems directly into your cart.

And if you want to take a look at Quicksite for yourself, visit our Quicksite Demo and let us know what you think!