Get it out there! Who is this WordPress? It seems like every book I have looked at gives a step by step about the WordPress ins and outs. Many times it can be all about the money. There is much information about getting a domain and whom they went with for that domain name with puts them right in the path of WordPress. I did not follow the books, go figure, only because I was looking for a cheap price on domain names. While looking for that first step in domain names, I used the search bar to look up web host with the best price and the best user-friendly site. There is a list from different sources and each would give their own best estimate from their own experiences. That is what the web has come down to. Who are you going to listen to and if you have to pay for there advise how much is it really worth? Will you end up with a lemon of a site?
There is a consumer reports that has for years done this type of thing in a book and now it is online and for a price. For some, having the bloggers opinion is still better than paying. Remember when you accept the information from someone that is not in a specific field it could be only what works best for them. Try checking their educational and professional backgrounds a little. If that person is a computer programmer many sites will be easier to navigate than other and compared to the novice, such as myself, just dabbling on the computer may not end up with the same results. Of course certain sites will be better than others. So make sure when looking at what is there and better you know where your source is coming from and their range of experience.
WordPress is an open source content to management system (CMS). This means that any kind of website or blog can be built and managed with it. It would be helpful to know that if you can do one thing in all, than do all in one thing. This was specifically designed for the management of websites. It allows users to control the entire layout functional workings of it and the contents of their website. This service has been up and running for over 10 years and there is limitless options with the site. You can build your blog, portfolio sites, e-commerce sites, membership sites, business/service sites and it goes on. Because there is a pooling of resources on this site that is what makes it more manageable in the long run.
The cheapest or the best may be for some but not for others can really get you confused. I was taken back the first time I looked at WordPress because I did not want to spend the money. So I took the free option then. So recently when money could be spent somewhere else and thought you initially think you are getting a better deal. In the end, you may spend more money on the mistake by going somewhere else when you should have stuck with something that more people use and is trusted than the better money deal.
Even if you have a domain site and a host now what do you do from here? Well you have WordPress map it for you to the blog you create to your domain but that will cost you $13. If you go with just a WordPress platform it is free but free only give you 3 GB of space, a free blog, some advertising that you do not have control of, and community support. In the next level, which is the Premium, you can pay $8.25/month or $99 a year for 13 GB of space, direct email support, customer design, video press, no ads, a custom site address, free blog.
In the previous plans there is no e commerce, which is okay if you are just writing but what happens when you start to sell things? WordPress can give you a business format at $299 a year. This added price also can give you all of the benefits of the previous except they add video chat, e-commerce and unlimited storage space.
This is the option page for WordPress.
At the bottom it has a link to go over
the break downs of each and the benefits.
So I have my blog on WordPress and my domain somewhere else so than what? Combine them with the easy tool on WordPress, that extra $13. People will be redirected from the blog site to you regular site. Which can be good if it is fully operational. I am still working on mine and what a mess because I started another blog on the eHost site, one on WordPress and still have my initial one that I have been using because using on Google. I can't get it all together. I could use another me some days!
In this one book, How to Create a Website using WordPress by Brian Patrick, gives you steps how to change your servers name but when I went through the eHost site, I am not finding a way to change that information like he states. I had a lot of options to buy more products from eHost but to change the hosting domain is not working for me. I am able to get WordPress to go to my domain but that is where it ends.
So next week, we will see how far I have traveled in my website, blog and such and see if I can get it going. I was hoping to be further by the end of January but now, mmmm, February. We will also talk about clean lines and what can draw your readers eye to you.
See you next time, but until then always come by and check me out at silverwineadditions.blogspot.com (for now)
Have a great week!
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