Most of the free WordPress templates don't provide too many layout options but in our case you get to choose the sidebar layout and as well as manage blog and homepage and other pages easily thus enabling you to manage design as well as layout.

1. Get a Website Developed For Cheap Using Free WordPress Themes?
Initial stages of creating a cheap website is planning as to what you need and then the following
steps play a larger role for keeping the costs reduced and cheap.
Domain name: Definitely the name of the website has to be booked in order to create your cheap
website and of course this is the first step. You can try using namecheap or Godaddy or some
hosting companies offer cheap hosting along with free domain for life so you can check them out as
well.
Hosting: Shared hosting companies like Bluehost etc should be good for your initial investment
into building your cheap website. They are filled with single click installation of WordPress and
doesn't require any kind of coding knowledge to do the same. All you have to do is buy domain and
hosting. Ask hosting company to help you point the domain name properly into your cpanel account
and then install WordPress by simple single click into your hosting root folder and there you go.
You got yourself your website url and a default WordPress website. Now all you got to do is login
into your WordPress dashboard and start what the next steps are about to tell you.
Design and Coding: This is where most users fumble and hence the idea of using a free
WordPress theme comes into picture.
Why Free? Because the budget is small and tight and you need a cheap website since this is your
first foray into websites and you don't know if this idea will really click or not. Hence trying to
check Free WordPress themes which have a decent coding and are mostly GPL so that you don't fall
into any legal issues.
Searching for a free WordPress theme is simple and easy. All you need to do is login into your
WordPress admin dashboard of your website www.example.com/wp-admin and then go to
Appearance>Themes which is where themes are loaded. Click on Add new and search for the type
of theme you need. They have search there as well as popular themes list and the list of latest
themes.
Go through and browse through these free WordPress themes and click on Download on the one
which you like in terms of screenshot, look and feel and in terms of demo. Many free themes have
demo link written in their description which means all you need to do is copy their demo link and
check if this appears to be the kind of website look and feel you need for your website.
Many free WordPress themes built recently include the following:
Documentation: Documentation is important since this is your first try into using a site builder and
using WordPress CMS hence a simple documentation would mean you can easily install the theme
and follow the next steps to create a simple website just like the one shown in the demo. With a few
steps here and there you should be able to have your first website ready within hours from the start.
Decent Support: Support is important and sometimes things which are obvious for others doesn't
seem right for you. For example uploading of slider images and you may ask for slider dimensions.
How to set the front page right to not show blog and several other questions which might need
answering from the community which uses the theme or the theme author. Hence check for free
WordPress themes which have decent support and where authors have answered questions asked by
users.
Stock Images: Stock images are essential in order to make your cheap website look worthwhile the
time of your customers and to make your visitors like what they see on your website. Most free

2. WordPress themes come with stock photos and still if you don't find them suitable you can search
for the ones in pixabay, unsplash and sxc.hu websites which offer GPL compatible free images for
Commercial Use on your Website.
SEO: WordPress CMS became popular because it is SEO ready. All you have to do is add any of
the plugin between all in one SEO or WordPress SEO by Yoast and configure it properly to have
meta tags in your website working properly like title, heading, alt and keyword and description tags.
Commenting: Since you need traffic and traffic should also interact with you and others you can
have commenting on your blog. So commenting plugins like Disqus, Facebook comments, and
intense debate etc are readily available in the form of plugins in WordPress. All you need to do is
add them via plugins section and you are ready to go to use them. Not much configuration is needed
and anyone without coding knowledge can be able to set them up. WordPress also comes with
default commenting system but approving and comment spam are other issues that come with it
hence considering use of Disqus is a good choice.
Forums: In case you need forum for supporting community in near future you have bbpress which
can be readily integrated into your WordPress powered website. So opening a support forum
tomorrow for community is not a distant dream.
Newsletter Sign up: Of course you got to have newsletters and send few emails about what you are
doing to your customers or pre-launch your product to your customers for feedback before
launching it out for public. For this you need to capture subscribers. There are a host of plugins
which tie up with free services like mailchimp, mailerlite etc which allow upto 1000-2000
subscribers for free. Initially you can do away with such free services and later move on with any of
the company for a paid service when your subscribers and website grow.
Analytics: You need to watch who your subscribers are and what are the bounce rates well then you
can definitely use Google analytics which is free and can be easily integrated using a plugin for the
same.
Off Page SEO: For Offpage SEO you can do social networking sharing using hootsuite, buffer and
similar services which link many social networks together for article or content sharing. You can
also submit your website using linkexpress and submitexpress which submits your website to
various search engines. You may also use Google, and Bing Webmaster tools for configuring
sitemap of your website in 3 major search engines namely Google, Yahoo and Bing.
Ecommerce: In future you want to sell something or you want to sell some cool stuff right from the
start just install WooCommerce and start using the shop ready with PayPal integration. All you need
to do is configure the settings and you are good to go. It also has options (which are paid) for credit
card payment gateways and other cool stuff.
Thus the above given options really make your time as well as efforts towards installing WordPess
and using a free WordPress theme thus keeping your costs down and making your website for
cheap.