Create Make an Online Ecommerce Store Website: Grizzly Ridge

In order to begin, we need to get a domain and hosting. So let's do that.

It's important to verify your domain so that it will continue to function.

Let's take a quick tour of the JackRabbit Dashboard.

Create a new email address for your new website

Let's hook up your new email to Gmail. Now you can send and receive mail using your new email address from the Gmail account you already use.

Don't follow this video! Unless you want to create ANOTHER wordpress website after the course is over.

Let's log into your new website.

Always set up your wordpress sites following these steps... regardless of what you want to use your site for.

Learn how to use Wordpress. So simple.

** Wordpress has a recent update. The default theme now uses "Blocks" to manage some of the options. If you go to "Appearance" in the sidebar while using the default wordpress theme, you won't see a lot of the options that I'm showing you. To solve this, install the Bixbang Theme (later lecture) - For now, just watch and learn and later, you'll know where everything's at. I'll go over the items again in later lectures once our theme is installed.

By default, you're not able to send or receive mail in Wordpress unless you set up the mailing function. This is important to receive new order notifications or any other notification coming from your website.

In order to accept credit cards, we need to set up our free SSL certificate on our website.

We need to get our theme so we can dress up our website. Let's do that.

You'll need some materials to continue setting up your website. Download those here.

Let's install our website's layout and plugins.

You'll need a simple way to refer to your site's documentation in case you ever get stuck. Here's a simple, quick way to do that.

Updating this theme requires a one time extra step. Here's how to do it.

I've created a demo for you to use that is a template of Grizzly Ridge. I'll show you how to install this demo or any demo you come across later when you find a theme you like for another website.

I've created several variables that we can search and replace to update your site with your own information.

Let's skim through the theme options. It's kind of boring for me, but it's useful for you to know where everything's at.

Let's set up some menus and add them to our footer.

I've got a plethra of free and paid images and graphics. I'll show you where to find those.

Ahh, logos. So much fun. Let's talk about logos and how you'll create your own.

Here's a very simple way to create your own logo using a template. Arts and crafts time! Yeah!

Are you feeling a little more artsy and creative? I'll show you how to create a logo from scratch. Not sure what to make? Just copy my logo,  I have no problem with that.

We need to prepare your logo so it's ready to upload to your website. Let's create a favicon while we're at it.

Let's take a walk through the images you'll need in order to fill out your site.

Editing images is very easy using another free online image editor.

There are lots of gadgets and doohickies on your website. Let's learn about one called Slider Revolution. This is a paid plugin that you got for free with the theme.

Visual composer is a simple tool that you can use to create your own layouts. The theme comes pre-loaded with layouts using the WP Bakery Visual Composer. So it's useful to learn about how it works.

Let's customize the homepage.

Let's customize the About page.

Let's customize the Contact Page

Your site comes with a couple resource pages. Let's go through these to make sure they're correct.

Let's add the backgrounds to the page title and subscribe sections.

In order to collect emails, you'll need to set up a mailchimp account.

Let's set up the subscription and popup forms.

And the final stretch of your site's design. Blog post images. Let's take a step back and look at what you've made so far. Nice work!

Depending on where you are in the world, you'll have different payment gateway options.

Let's set up Stripe

Let's create a business paypal account

Setting up Woocommerce - simple and straight forward.

Let's go over the woocommerce settings. Kind of boring but super useful.

Yeah! Taxes! Whoooo! Party! But not really.

Learn how to set up shipping

Learn how to use product categories

Learn how to use product tags

Learn how to add products to your store

Learn how to use Attributes and Variations. For example, you can sell a small blue shirt, or a large white one depending on what variation your customer chooses.

Grouped products are products that can be sold as a set. Like a bikini top and bottom.

Giving your customers coupons will get you more sales! We love more sales.

Learn how to edit your shop sidebar.

Let's test our store with Stripe.

Learn how to test your store if you're using paypal to accept payments.

Learn about Affiliate Marketing and Dropshipping. What are the differences and which one is better?

How to find and list affiliate products in your store.

How to find and list products that you will Dropship.

Here are some cool dropshipping tools that are popular with successful dropshippers.

Get your site found in Google. Here's a crash course for On-Page-SEO

Learn how to add Google Analytics to your website. Simple.

Protect your site from bots and hackers.

Beef up your site's performance.

Always back up your website.

Your plugins can stay updated automatically by enabling auto updates.

Are you stuck? Watch this video first.

Whew! You did it! Congratulations!