Do I want a blog or a website?

Do I want a blog or a website?

Your site can be whatever you want it to be! It can begin as a simple blog about your passion for gardenias, and grow over time to become an encyclopedic site about how to propagate and grow gardenias – with weekly blog posts to keep your readers informed and...
Branding

Branding

Your business/dream/concept is uniquely yours, and in order to let the world know about it, the message you put out needs to be consistent. This is called ‘branding’ – and is much more fun than it sounds! Once you have a marker for your business, be...
Nameservers

Nameservers

When you buy hosting you will also be provided with information about your nameservers. These look like an email address, and are usually a sequence of letters and numbers, followed by your host’s site name, for example, “bt1234@hostgator.com” Keep...
Planning your website

Planning your website

Planning your website is the next step as the idea of having a site of your own becomes more real. While you are in this mode, read through to see what you will need, and what the costs will be, as they are recurring. For the most part a domain name and hosting costs...
Hosting

Hosting

Now you have chosen an address – or domain name – for your site, you need to find hosting – or a home – for your site. Again, there are many options, and have most of my domains hosted with HostGator. For about $6 a month you can host your site...