Build Your Makeup Artist Website

While you can run your Makeup Artist Business entirely by word of mouth, a website can do a lot of additional advertising for you. Your website can be a place where you can showcase your vision as an artist, allow your customers to learn more about you, be a place where your clients can schedule appointments or contact you, and many other things. In short, your website can be an extension of your self, it can speak for you when you don’t work.

This page will be a growing resource for you to help you build your own website.

Of course, you can hire an agency to build and host a website for you, but we like to show you a much more cost-effective alternative:

Step 1. Webhosting

Get a web hosting account to host your website. We suggest Bluehost (This site runs on Bluehost).
-> Read: How To Sign Up With Bluehost

Step 2. CMS

You want to put content on your website, which means you need a Content Management System (CMS). The simplest and most widely used CMS is WordPress.
-> watch: WordPress Overview and Installation

Step 3. Backend

Yay! You just installed WordPress! In this video, you will learn how to login to your WordPress administration area and use the important tools that are found there.

-> watch: WordPress Login and Admin Area

Step 4. Creating Pages

In this video, you will learn how to create pages (for example your homepage, contact page etc.) for your WordPress blog.

-> watch: Creating Pages in WordPress

Step 5. Creating Posts

In this video, you will learn how to create posts for your WordPress blog. Posts are different from pages because they are listed in reverse chronological order on your site and are ideal for diary-type content, like regular updates.

-> watch: Creating Posts in WordPress