How to Make a Single Page Website for Freelancers & Agencies

Register a domain name to give your freelance or agency site a unique address, and learn about costs, registrars, and checking availability before buying.

Register a domain name with Namecheap, check availability, and add it to cart for a one-year plan. Create an account, enter contact and payment details, and review your order.

Discover what web hosting means with a Pinterest example, where uploaded content is stored on servers. Compare buying your own server to renting space on someone else's servers.

Connect your domain to your web host by updating Namecheap DNS to custom name servers and saving changes using the domain's dashboard.

Install WordPress on your chosen domain via HostGator's control panel, then log in to the admin area to customize and publish your single-page website.

Learn how to change your HostGator and WordPress passwords, including where to log in, locate password fields, and update to a new secure password.

Add contact details such as email, phone, and city to your single page site, then customize the favicon by uploading a site icon image and publish the changes.

Disable the team section for a freelancer site and add a header background image in the call-to-action area by uploading a 1920x1080 file, then save, publish, and refresh.

Learn how to customize the cta text and button, and implement on-page anchor links that scroll to the contact section by tagging it and linking with the domain /#contact.

Edit the 'what we do' section of a single page website by updating headings and descriptions, ensuring the header image is dark enough for readable text, then save and publish.

Delete the title, subtitle, and quote blocks to reveal the pie chart section, add three skills as chart items, optionally adjust colors, and save and publish the single-page site.

Update the recent works section by swapping images and logos, linking each project to its page, cropping portrait images ahead of time, and adding internal pages like Dick KIDU studios.

Update the testimonials section by renaming the title to testimonials and removing the subtitle, then add two custom testimonials with square images to prevent skew, and save and publish.

Create and customize blog posts by labeling them as website tutorials, embedding YouTube videos, adding featured images, and publishing to display on the homepage.

Learn to replace the featured image with a video using the featured video plus plugin, auto pulling YouTube thumbnails and embedding at the top of posts.

Customize a website footer with widgets and the WP editor widget plugin. Add rich text, images, and clickable links, including social media and latest posts.

Learn to add a contact form to a single-page site with the Contact Form 7 plugin, paste code from the documentation, and publish the form to the WordPress install email.

Learn to customize a freelancer's single-page site by editing theme files, updating the about section to say what I do, and managing skills and text during updates.

Customize a single-page site navigation by creating a custom menu with anchor links, mapping sections such as about, works, tutorials, and contact, and updating the header labels.

Access additional learning resources covering WordPress setup, domain hosting, site customization, and in-depth WordPress training. Plus Google Analytics, SEO, logo creation, and free image editing tools.

Celebrate completing the course and gain the confidence to create your own single page websites for freelancers and agencies using WordPress, then share your feedback by rating the course.