Installing WordPress Now that you’ve set up your domain and hosting, you’re now ready start building your own unique website. While there are many ways to build a website, we are looking to create a professional looking website in the most efficient way possible. For beginners and veterans alike, we suggest using a content management system (CMS) called WordPress. WordPress is basically an online publishing application that you’ll use to create your website (everything from it’s appearance to actually adding …
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Change Your DNS Settings The first thing we must do is to change our DNS settings to point to HostGator. Shortly after completing your purchase of the hosting, you should receive an email from HostGator with some instructions on how to get started. The most important section of the email is where they list your name servers. Step 1: Make a note of the two name servers given in the email. Step 2: Go to Name.com and log in to …
Now that you’ve purchased your new domain (either by registering a new one or buying an existing domain), the next step is to buy and set up hosting for the domain. Website hosting refers to the service of housing your website files on someone else’s servers. In other words, when you buy hosting, you are purchasing that ability to put your files (that make up your website) on another company’s servers so that people can view your website on the …
Buying an Existing Domain If the domain you want is already taken, there’s a good chance that you can buy that domain from the owner. Again, I don’t mean going to a domain registrar like Actnowdomains.com and registering a new, never before registered domain. This is something you should and will do most of the time. I mean buying a domain name that someone else has registered but they are selling the name. If, when you go to the domain, …
I have decided to put together some simple, easy to follow tutorials on starting a website from buying a domain to getting web hosting all the way to getting WordPress installed on your site. I hope these can be a real help to those of you who are beginners in the internet marketing world. Check out the series links below to get everything you need to get started in the internet marketing world. …