WordPress Website Setup
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The WordPress setup guide compares creating a website to building a house, highlighting the necessity of a domain name (address), web hosting (block of land), and WordPress itself (the house framework). It emphasizes the importance of selecting a suitable domain and hosting plan based on one's involvement level. The guide also provides a cost outline for domain names, hosting options, and notes that a free WordPress.com account may hinder online business operations.
WordPress Website Setup
- 1. WordPress Set Up Guide http://www.thesisvideotutorials.com
- 2. Creating a website is like building a house… There are three things you will need to build your virtual house.. http://www.thesisvideotutorials.com
- 3. The Address A domain name is the address you send your customers to. http://www.thesisvideotutorials.com
- 4. The Address Choose a domain name that represents your business http://www.thesisvideotutorials.com
- 5. Block Of Land Web hosting is the block of land you build your website on http://www.thesisvideotutorials.com
- 6. Block Of Land What hosting you choose depends on how ‘hands on’ you want to be. http://www.thesisvideotutorials.com
- 7. The House! WordPress provides the framework of your website http://www.thesisvideotutorials.com
- 8. .com vs.org Build your own house…or not. It is difficult to run an online business with a wordpress.com free account. http://www.thesisvideotutorials.com
- 9. Costs??? Domain Name - $10 - $20 per year Shared Hosting - $10 per month Grid and Managed – $24 per month WordPress – FREE! Compare this to the cost of setting up a bricks and mortar shop?? http://www.thesisvideotutorials.com
- 10. What’s Next?? http://www.thesisvideotutorials.com
Editor's Notes
- #2: The basic requirements you need for setting up a websiteWho supplies them.The costs involved
- #5: Domain name registrarOnly renting the domain nameChoose a name closely related to your business – business name preferable
- #7: Maintenance – security, site maintenance/updates, site performance, backupsDreamhost– Shared hosting (cheapest option). you have to share your resources (memory, bandwidth) with other users who are hosted on the same machine as you failure of a shared host cantake your website offlineMedia temple – Grid hosting (more expensive) web space is not located on one machine, but is more like a "virtual machine” on a cluster of serversyour website can leverage resources from more machines in the cluster if necessary. If one grid fails, another server takes overWordPress Managed Hosting – everything is managed for you.Some web hosts will include a free domain name when you sign up for a planIf you cancel the plan you may have to then pay for the domain name
- #8: FreeEasy to installThere is a learning curveUser friendlyCustomizable and adaptable for your needsConstantly updatedLarge communityLots of plugins, themes and add ons.
- #9: Free – security and hosting taken care of. Good for learning.Can’t customize code, premium themes, plugins, advertising.Self Hosted – use plugins, themes, customize code but have to supply own domain name and hosting. Maintenance.
- #11: What’s next?Manual InstallationGrab a domain nameSign up for webhosting account