OK, so let's talk about the importance of having a website and a blog.
So here's the thing with having a website, what is going to do for you?
It's going to add extra credibility to your personal brand.
Just think about when a potential employer looks you up on Google, when they look you up to see, you
know, what kind of activity you have online, if they're able to find either your website for yourself
or maybe for a brand for your business or whatever that may be.
Right.
Then that's going to play a huge factor in you being able to differentiate yourself.
And even if you just have a simple website there where you're just posting, you know, blog topics,
blog content, or maybe some, you know, different news articles that you have, you know, maybe shared
from different platforms, whatever that may be.
Right.
Having a website is better than having no website.
And all you really need is about twenty dollars.
So you have ten dollars for a domain, five dollars a month for hosting.
WordPress is for free.
And the SSL certificate is about I think it's free for one year and then it's about ten dollars a year.
So very inexpensive.
WordPress has a bunch of free templates.
You can easily set it up within a couple hours and you have a website that's ready to start blogging
and then you can also purchase a website template theme from the individual market.
And I'll show you here some examples that you can actually look through and find for the cyber security
space, if that's what you want to focus on primarily, or if you want to just have like a simple blog
about yourself for personal branding, you can do that as well.
And so then you can go to fibre.
Let's say you buy a website template theme off the individual market for twenty five dollars, thirty
dollars or whatever that may be.
You can go to five and then pay them ten to twenty dollars to have a template installed as a demo.
And we'll walk through some of those vendors here in a moment as well.
And one of the biggest things that a blog allows you to do is it allows you to write content, write
your different thoughts, opinions on the cybersecurity topics, write ethical hacking topics, and
it also shows your credibility and expertise.
So your visitor.
So just imagine you go in for a job interview and, you know, you submit your application and they
have, you know, four to five different applicants.
But then you're the only one that has a website, a blog, and the employer looks you up on Google and
finds you find your social media profiles are active in everything.
Think about how much that's going to play a factor in you being able to get that job right, get that
position because you've set yourself apart from the competition.
I'm going to show you some of the options there, what you want to get as far as the domain, the hosting
and then the SSL.
And then we're also going to walk through the individual market.
I'm going to show you some themes and then I'm going to show you on Fiverr an example.
There is for some different gigs that you can get for ten dollars.
Twenty dollars for them to install these templates as the demo.
OK, so let's head on over to my computer now.
OK, so let's look at the name Cheap Dotcom here.
This is what I recommend for if you're starting a website, very inexpensive to have great support.
So let's go ahead and look at a domain here.
So let's say you wanted to look for my cyber dot com, just nice and simple there.
OK, so this is not available, but let's say if we wanted to do like X, Y, Z, I would recommend
AdCom for whatever reason is is not available.
But we wanted to buy this.
We would add to CART, we would go ahead and proceed.
And then nice and simple write very simple.
And then for hosting, we want to go to shared hosting the domain should not cost it any more than ten
dollars.
OK, for the actual hosting here you can go yearly or you can go monthly.
So let's go to monthly here.
And the one I have is the four eighty eight months or five dollars pretty much a month.
Right.
You can use this right here and get started and they'll give you an entire back and see panel where
you can install WordPress, install the SSL certificate as well, because I believe the domains come
with one free year of automatic SSL, OK, and so it's very easy and simple to walk through and install.
They can even install WordPress for you and install the website for you if you are having some trouble.
All you had to do is contact their support and their support is fantastic.
I highly recommend.
So those are the things you're going to need.
You're going to need a domain.
You're going to need some hosting.
And I would also recommend that you sign up for G suite as well if you want to have like at your company
name, Dotcom.
Right.
So let's say you were to buy my cybersecurity biz dotcom.
You want to have an email address that's associated with that, right?
Go to G-suit here and go right here.
I think it's like five dollars a month and it allows you to have email.
Let's go over here.
Pricing.
So six dollars a month.
This is all you need.
And it's Gmail for your business.
You get a calendar.
Thirty gigs of space.
So very inexpensive and you can easily get the set up within an hour or so.
And then they also would be able to help you out name cheap if you needed to set up the the back and
name servers for this, DNS records for this as well.
So name cheap will definitely help you out.
Highly recommend them.
And if you're going to get that domain and the website, I highly recommend you get to G Suite.
So now let's go over here to the embattle market.
This is where you want to find different website themes and templates.
OK, so let's go here to I believe it's the right here theme first.
And let's say you want to look for a cybersecurity theme.
OK, so let's go like that right there.
And we can find some here already that are pretty much done and we can set up for ourselves.
So let's see here, this one right there.
Here at the very top and this check these out.
So we have this one right here, we're going to have a live preview.
And so they already have this entire website, essentially the theme laid out, so all we would need
to do is come in here and change out this information with our own.
And so these guys have different versions of this template here.
So if you want is something like this something like this right here or maybe like this right here,
it's just a different layout structure, right.
And so something like this, I mean, these are fantastic looking websites, right?
They're pretty much done for you.
You just got to change out your information like this one here.
Cyber security and complete I.T. solutions get started and then these pull up here, deployment and
migration management.
OK, great.
And then this one here looks great.
I like this drawing here, this little vector you see here, all the services.
And this is more for like a company.
But let's say if you even wanted to do, like, your own personal company for yourself, maybe you had,
like John Smith, Cybersecurity Consulting or John Schmidt Consulting.
You can do that as well.
Right.
So that's just something to keep an eye on and to look at as far as the availability of these types
of websites for your own brand or if you want to do something even just simple, like a blog, you can
do that as well.
So these are more just for like maybe to be kind of businesses.
So this is more here.
Let's see if we have one like for like a individual person.
Your I.T. security, yeah, so a lot of these are for like businesses and let's even see this one right
here.
Depending the route that you take, if you want to go on the personal branding or the you want to start
an actual company, right.
That's going to be different.
OK, so.
So if you want to like a simple blog or even go back over here.
And go to WordPress, and so if you want to just like a simple blog, you know, you can do that as
well.
Let me see if we can break this down even further,
maybe like a business blog or maybe even if you wanted to look at, like a consultant here.
Let's look at this one right here, a guru blog.
There we go.
OK, so this is a simple little blog here, OK?
And then let's even go back over here and let's go to the corporate.
Yeah, I mean, so you would need to go in here, spend some time looking for, you know, a simple
blog, or if you want to have, like more of a business kind of website, you can go in here and find
a very simple type of blog, website, and then you will go over here to fiber.
And just like with these, you look at people over here, you buy this for seventeen dollars.
Right.
And then what's going to come with it is the install file.
OK, and everything's going to be fully responsive here.
And what you want to do is take the files that you get from here and go to fiber and have one of these
guys here install it as a demo for you.
And it's like 10, 20 dollars if that.
Let's look at we want top rated Sillars.
OK, I will install your Magento theme, I will install WordPress theme as your demo theme and this
one right here.
Let's see our customized.
We don't want any customizations, we just want the we want to have it be like a demo, right.
So these ones right here, this one right here, will install the WordPress theme like a demo, right?
And then we can just change out the information on our own.
Twenty five dollars.
Let's go here.
Ten dollars WordPress installation.
So this guy here will install the WordPress database creation theme installation.
Or you can just get a simple theme installation from, you know, to get it like the demo, right,
for ten dollars.
So that's going to be the options here that you have for setting up a website.
You can also get the extra plug in as well, and you can install that onto WordPress and then get a
free website through that as well.
But there's a lot more steps that are involved with that.
With this, all you got to do is buy a theme, templates.
You get somebody to install it for you and then you do the edits and modifications yourself.
So that's going to be here for setting up a website and a blog and the importance of it.
And we'll see you on the next one.