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When I went to Bravenet.com. I typed in a name that came to me one morning: Paracordsandmore.com. What do you know it was available, so I signed up for it for two years. Not really expensive in my opinion, around $8.95 per year if my memory serves me correctly. Once I had the Domain name it was time to get my website hosting. As I’ve said previously I selected Hostgator.com. I went with their Baby Croc package. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles but it has enough for my needs. I can add an unlimited number of domains to this site and currently I have three (3) on here. Once I did this it is necessary to point my domain names to my host server so that they can link up and be used, in my case with hostgator.com.
I had to do some digging to figure out how to do this. Eventually I found it is necessary to find the nameservers attached to my Hostgator.com server and type in that code, whatever it was, over at Bravenet.com. Once I did this I had to wait 24-48 hrs, then, wait for it, voila. It worked. I found whenever I wasn’t sure what to do, if I would Google the question, just as I wanted to know it, I would indefinitely find someone that had the same question and figured it out. This saved me so much time. I’ve always liked to learn from other people’s efforts and this was no exception.
We’ll pick up again next time, Constant Reader. See you then.
I’ve always enjoyed writing and personally feel I have a little talent in it. It comes fairly easy for me, but I did yearn for something that was more tangible and hands on. I don’t like feeling so attached to a journal or the computer that I can’t get out and live life. To see the outdoors and experience a beautiful day and the company of some good people from time to time.
My very first site was a blogger.com site. I liked it but once I found that the company could pull the plug on all the work that I had written and that it wasn’t good to do an e-commerce site on it I began looking for another alternative. I’ve read in many places, and I have to agree, if you are putting together a site and are planning to make a good go of it, it is imperative to do a couple things. Buy your own domain name and purchase some hosting. Neither is relatively expensive, nor are they cost prohibitive. I went through Bravenet.com to get my domain(s). My wife suggested them and I find their prices to be very competitive. I got hosting through Hostgator.com. I’ve used them for a couple years now and find their product and service to work just fine for me. NOTE: In the spirit of full disclosure, I do have an affiliate account with Hostgator. If you click on the link below and ultimately purchase their product, I will get a commission.
This will take you right to hostgator for domains and hosting packages.
We’ll continue with the next step, next time; Constant Reader.
What steps you ask? Like how I did the site. A guy with only the smallest morsel of html or coding experience. I probably should explain that.
Over the past few years I had heard of the Word Press blogging platform and its ease of use for people like me; the non-egghead types. I found a site that had a step by step tutorial of how to setup an e-commerce site: click here for the tutorial. It’s in two parts and it helped me to come from nothing to what you see when you come to this site now. There were a few things I didn’t like and I changed them and their still remains a few changes that will occur but this was how it started.
Now let’s backup a bit. WordPress. Every time I think of the name it makes me think of the old Word Perfect program from waaaaay back in the day. For all you computer geeks, this is probably dating me, just like if I said I liked Prodigy.
As I said earlier I’d heard of WordPress, but had little experience with it until I did my second blog at: Neverquitever.com. I developed that site with Artisteer and used the Word Press platform. I found it very intuitive and easy to use. I still have that domain and website but after posting on it for a few months I felt like I was missing something; some direction. I stopped writing on it and did a few months of soul searching on what was it that I truly enjoy doing.
More on the steps, when we reconvene, Constant Reader
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