by Gillian | Jun 23, 2013 | Blogging, Web Design, WordPress
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...
by Gillian | Jun 23, 2013 | Web Design, WordPress
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...
by Gillian | Jun 23, 2013 | Moving parts, Web Design
As you think about the site you want to build, the first decision you need to make is to find a domain name for your site. This is the “address” of your site, so whatever you choose should clearly explain what your site is going to be about. For example,...
by Gillian | Jun 23, 2013 | Blogging, Web Design, WordPress
As you have started to read about WordPress, you may have found some of the information to be contradictory. This may be due to there being two versions of WordPress… both of which are different, and both of which are referred to as “WordPress”. Let...
by Gillian | Jun 23, 2013 | Web Design, WordPress
According to WikiPedia, WordPress is: “a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL which runs on a Web hosting service. Features include a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over...
by Gillian | Jun 23, 2013 | Help with projects, Web Design
If you have never built a site before, or entered the world or web – or graphic – design, there are many words that are used, that may not make any sense. In this section the different categories of jargon are listed and then explained in standard...
