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How to Create a Website with Bluehost

The process of creating a website with Bluehost is slightly more complex than it is for other website builders. To start, Bluehost will take you to your hosting dashboard and prompt you to create a new WordPress website. Before you can choose a template or make any edits, you’ll need to log into your new WordPress dashboard.

In WordPress, you can select from any of more than 300 pre-installed themes to get your site started. You also have the option to apply any WordPress-compatible theme to your site, but only the themes provided by Bluehost are compatible with the Bluehost site builder. Unfortunately, it isn’t easy to change themes later, since you’ll have to redesign your site from scratch.

You can open Bluehost’s website builder from within your WordPress dashboard. The editor offers premade page sections, each of which includes multiple elements such as text boxes, image containers, buttons, and more. You can choose which elements to show and hide within each section, and there are several predefined layout options for each section.

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We found this to be much easier to use than WordPress’s standard site editor, although you still have access to the WordPress interface if you want to use it. WordPress’s editor makes it difficult to divide your site into sections with different backgrounds, and it’s even more difficult to arrange content side by side. The Bluehost editor makes these essential design tasks simple.

However, the Bluehost site builder isn’t a drag-and-drop editor. Page sections are full-width by default, and there’s no way to add or rearrange individual content elements. You can edit your site’s HTML code to make fine-grained changes, but this option is only suitable for experienced site designers.

One nice thing about Bluehost’s builder is that once your site is created, you can migrate it to another host just like you would any other WordPress site. If you do migrate, you’ll lose access to Bluehost’s site editor, but you’ll be able to keep all the page sections that you’ve created up to that point.

Overall, Bluehost’s site editor makes the process of designing a website in WordPress dramatically simpler. However, it’s still not a drag-and-drop editor, and it’s nowhere near as flexible as other site builders that are independent of WordPress.

Adding Multimedia to Your Bluehost Website

Bluehost relies on WordPress’s built-in media management system to handle multimedia. This is one of the highlights of using WordPress, so we were glad to see that this system is preserved.

You can easily import photos, videos, PDFs, and most other common file types from your computer. Simultaneous uploads are supported, too. Once your files are added to WordPress, you can organize them into folders and give them descriptions so your library is fully searchable. Bluehost also provides you with a library of hundreds of stock images to help jump start your design.

Overall, we were very happy with the website’s multimedia tools and thought they were very easy to use.

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