Lesson 1: Overview and course objectives

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Welcome to Course 2! This course is all about figuring out the essentials you’ll need to start building a beautiful website to communicate your brand.

We know it can be overwhelming to try to sort through all the website-building products out there, so we’re here to make it easier by helping you find the products that work best for you—your technical comfort level, your business needs, your brand. Even better, at the end of the course, we’ll let you know how you can get set up with discounted GoDaddy products, so you can get the tools you need.

HEADS UP!

This course builds upon some of the concepts in Course 1, which is about evaluating your brand. If you haven’t taken Course 1, we’d recommend you check it out and, at the very least, complete the activity in Lesson 5.

We’re making some big product decisions in this course

This course is the second in a set of four Empower by GoDaddy course offerings which are designed to help you build your brand and communicate it through a beautiful website. In Course 1, you identified the building blocks of your brand.

In this course, you’ll use those building blocks to choose a domain name and select a hosting account that works for you. (Wondering what the heck a domain name or hosting account is? Don’t worry, we’ll get to that.) After you choose your essential tools in this course, Courses 3 and 4 will help you pick a website design template and build content that successfully communicates your brand.

Check out what you’ll gain from this course in the box below.

BY THE END OF THIS COURSE, YOU SHOULD:

  • Know the two essential tools you need to build your website
  • Be able to pick a branded domain name following best practices
  • Understand what hosting products will work best for your skill level and business needs
  • Know how to manage your site safely
  • Be able to redeem discounted products through GoDaddy

Sound good? Just click the “Next Lesson” button to get started.