How To Create A Website in Nigeria 2025 + Video Tutorial (In 3 Easy Steps)

How To Create A Website in Nigeria with 3 Simple Steps:

STEP 1: Choose a Domain Name and Hosting

STEP 2: Install WordPress, a popular CMS with website builder. Here, we will also explore artificial intelligence, AI, to quickly create a website

STEP 3: Customize Your WordPress Website

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So…

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Let’s move quickly (No much time? WATCH VIDEO NOW!):

Infact, this is the exact process I use in creating awesome websites that clients love.

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The BEST PART?

You’ll learn how to do all this by yourself – call it DIY if you like.

STEP 1

CHOOSE A DOMAIN, HOSTING

In this step, I will show you, step by step, how to choose a domain name and hosting for your website in Nigeria.

To get started…

…follow this link.

This will take us to where we can quickly register our domain (it also gives steps on how to buy a domain name in Nigeria).

Locate and click on the “Domain Registration” tab from the navigation menu on the site.

This will take you to the form below where you can quickly search for your preferred domain name.

In our case, we’re searching for “dogfoodng.com”

If our domain name is available, it quickly pops up, but if not, we will need to either add something extra to the domain or explore other extensions (e.g. instead of “.com”, we could add “.net, .biz, .org etc”)

HURRAY!
Our “dogfoodng.com” domain is available

Next thing for us to do now is to purchase the domain by paying for it.

So click on “Add to cart” and then CHECKOUT.

This quickly informs you that you don’t have a hosting package attached to your domain.

Simply go ahead and purchase a hosting package on this platform that will meet your needs.

Scroll down and click on CONTINUE.

After this time, you will be taken to REVIEW & CHECKOUT which gives you your order summary

Click on CHECKOUT which prompts you to fill out a form…

Quickly fill out form.

The next step here is to pay for your domain and of course, hosting.

You have 3 options:

1. Bank Deposit

2. Bank Transfer &

3. ATM Card

After you pay, you will be sent an email with login details to your new website which will be required in the next step…

STEP 2

INSTALL WORDPRESS, CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

WordPress is popular amongst small and big business owners, bloggers, journalists and digital marketers in Nigeria today.

Research holds that WordPress has a major market share in the industry.

After the email with your CONTROL PANEL (CPANEL) LOGIN details, head over to your website (Remember our domain, dogfoodng.com, is just fictitious)

For demonstration purposes, we are using Nurturedscills.net (an existing domain)

1. Pop up your details from your email and head over to your cpanel login using details sent to you via email. 
2. You will be prompted to input your username and password. 
3. Do that right away, click on LOG IN and you will be taken to your cpanel home page.
4. Quickly head over to Software tab and choose WordPress Manager by Softaculous. 

In installing WordPress, it’s important to note that the application can be installed in two ways:1. On the floor of your domain or2. In a Directory you specify.

For our lesson, we have installed WordPress in a directory we called “dogfoodng”. Fill out the required fields for the WordPress installation with relevant information.

Finally, before clicking on INSTALL button, enter your preferred email address where details of WordPress installation will be sent.

After installation, a congratulations page shows up indicating that the WordPress software was installed successfully and gives two links.

The first shows you the directory on which the software was installed while the other, Administrative URL, gives you the opportunity to start building your new WordPress website.

Click on the “Administrative URL” link to start using Artificial Intelligence to build your website.

Click on get started button and choose the right category that fits your website…for me, I couldn’t find so I took others.

Click on continue

Input the title of your website, for us it is “Dog Food Nigeria”. Click on continue

Choose “What you are looking to achieve with your website.” For us, we took all the options. Click on continue…

Choose a design from the templates or find from the search bar….

Choose your appropriate template and “Import Theme Content”

Congratulations, your WordPress website is ready. Click on visit website to view how your website is looking.

STEP 3

CUSTOMISE YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE

Before we start customizing, it’s critical to note that…

A basic WordPress web page is configured in three different sections as outlined below:

1. Header section
2. Body Section
3. Footer Section

Each element (Paragraph text, Heading, Image, Video et al) is presented as a distinct block of content.

To Start customizing your website fast and easy, you will just need to “Edit Page” you’re on. 

Our next step is to edit elements directly using WordPress “Pagelayer” website builder.

A Page builder, Pagelayer for us in this instance, enables you to handle web applications like your regular graphic applications (CorelDraw, Photoshop, etc).

Some choose to call website page builders a “drag and drop” tool.

That’s really cool, right?

Here we will try to see how we can change the video:

Click on video and locate video URL on right pane. Get and copy your desired video link from source (ours here is Youtube) and paste back right here.

Change images by selecting the particular image and head over to “Options” to your right pane and upload image you want to use.

You can choose to select image to replace by either uploading from your system or using images from your media library.

Using AI-Generated Content (ChatGPT)

How to get content to replace dummy elements on our new website.

Get to ChatGPT and register an account and sign in.

Copy content from your website for example, we copied “Why Choose Us” and instructed our AI tool, ChatGPT, to write something brief for us.

Copy and paste AI-generated content from ChatGPT to your new website.

Ensure to always save your work as you progress…

Edit any other element on the website by just clicking on it and changing using “Settings” and “Options” tab on the right pane.

How to Edit Header and Footer Sections

The header section housing the logo, website title, navigation menu and call to action (CTA) button, as seen on the template we’re using, is the top region of your website as seen on the screenshot below….

The footer section that contains logo, website title, contact information, links and a Google Map is the lower region of our website as seen below…

How to Edit Header Section

Locate “Appearance” tab on the left panel and choose “Customize”

On the left panel, locate “Header, Footer, Templates, Pages” drop down menu and select “Header”

Select any item you want to change on the Header section. For this instance, we selected the logo and clicked on “Logo Style” tab to show us how we can select and change the logo.

REMEMBER: You can make your logo by yourself or getting a logo designer to create one for you.

Remember you can upload new logo or use from your existing library…

Customizing Footer Section

Head back over to the “Header, Footer, Templates, Pages” drop down menu and select “Footer”

Select any area you wish to edit and change appropriately. For instance, we may want to change the Google Maps on the right of our footer section…

Click on inner right edit icon on the map and it shows you the properties of that particular widget…which, ofcourse is a Google Maps.

Replace address with your Nigerian address to display your business location on Google Maps.

So that’s all it takes to build a website fast and easy with just 3 simple steps exploring the power of artificial intelligence, AI.

So what are you waiting for?

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS, FAQ

How Much does it Cost to Create a Website in Nigeria today?

A standard 5-page basic website costs from between 75,000 to 150,000 Naira. The cost could get up to N10Million and above all depends on the features you want the website to have. However, some web designers offer cheap websites ranging from N59,000 for small, medium scale industries.

Price of Hosting a Website in Nigeria

The price of hosting a website in Nigeria varies according to the choice of domain extention as you would find out as we progress in this guide.

For example, a “.ng” extention would be far more expensive than a “.com.ng” domain type.

Compared to their foreign counterparts which is usually far more expensive (no thanks to huge difference in exchange rates today), most web hosting companies in Nigeria don’t do monthly payments for hosting.

What you usually get is an annual fee which could range from N5,000 to N30,000 and above all depending on features that your website has.

This annual cost includes domain name and hosting (again all depending on the package and your requirements).

What amount does it cost to make a basic site in Nigeria?

At Nurturedscills, we do a basic web page for as small as N14,999 after the home page which attracts N19,999 only (all exclusive of domain and hosting). On the flip side, you could just purchase a domain name and hosting and build your website using this guide.

What amount does it cost to structure an eCommerce site?

With this same guide, you can create an ecommerce platform. If there are additional help you’ll need, shoot me an email.

How would you create a website for free?

WordPress.com provides free hosting for your website. However the shortfall is that you’d still be like a tenant i.e. your domain is not independent. Simple terms, your domain will look like this: yourname.wordpress.com.

There are other platforms also that provides free hosting, domain for your free website but the situation remain same as earlier stated.

How can I make my own site?

Indeed. You can do so utilizing this FREE guide.

What is the most preferred Website Builder for Starters?

If you’re just starting up, WordPress remains the most popular Content Management System, CMS, to use in building your website. And it’s FREE!!!

What’s the most ideal approach to create a site?

If you’re a DIY, like me, go with this guide. If not, get a web designer to help you create a website. If you want to upscale, get a web design company to help you create your desired website.

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