How to Build a Wedding Website

Wedding websites or "Wedsites" are becoming more and more popular, and there are several companies offering ready made template wedding sites.

You create a wedding website in much the same way as any website but Wedding websites are a little different than a standard site in that:

• They are usually temporary Websites that are in place for 6-12 months prior to the wedding and 6-12 months after the wedding.
• They are usually built by people who have no real interest in building a Website other than for their wedding and hence they need to be created simply and easily.

There are three main ways to create/build your wedding website:

• Have it built by a web designer
• Use a template website provider
• Build Your Own

To help you create your own wedding website I have put together a 2 part case study that takes you through the process of creating a wedding website and then after the wedding transforming the website into a family website.

The case study is linked to the blog where you can make suggestions and provide feedback as we go along.

Because most potential builders of this type of site are non technical in nature I have decided to build the site using WordPress, and in two parts.

WordPress is very flexible, free and requires no web authoring tools to use. It also allows for multiple authors and provides secure areas which will be important later as it transforms into a general family site.

Starting With A free Website

I've decided to start building the site with using a free WordPress hosted blog as it will give you a chance to follow along by building your own site at the same time.

Although you can develop the entire site using the free blog there are things that I want to include that are not possible using the free hosted blog. Therefore I will develop a basic site using the free hosted solution in part 1 and then in Part 2 I will switch over to a self hosted blog.

 However by that time you will hopefully be feeling comfortable using WordPress. and will then be able to decide if you want to invest in a host and domain name or whether you will continue to develop your free hosted blog.

What we Will be Doing

Part 1

1. Wordpress Overview
2. Registering for a blog
3. Adding a Blog
4. Choosing the blog theme
5. Initial setup
6. Site Layout
7. Making a few blog posts to see how they work.
8. Putting content on Home page and linking in the blog posts
9. Adding A few more Content Pages.
10. Wrapping up.

Part 1 is online here. Please go to the blog to comment and make suggestions.

Part 2

1. Moving to a self hosted WordPress blog- Coming soon

Related Articles and resources:

•  wedding website building options
•  why you should build a wedding website and what to put on it.