Configuring your webhost to prepare for your EPIC WordPress Installation!

This is the second video of the [Get Started] series especially for WordPress beginners.

Locked & Loaded - Let's Get Serious

So we have our domain name, now what? Well my friends and fellow fraggers we begin by getting our DNS information from our web hosting provider, then we head on back to Godaddy or your respective domain registrar and tell them where we are going to park this beautiful new creature we call our website. (That’s right, LIKE A BOSS)

What we will do in this exercise is:

1. Create the new web space for our website
2. Specify our DNS information at our domain registrar
3. Create a username and password to access our new web Ponderosa
4. Create a database servername, and database along with username and password
5. Play video games and frag kids in the UK to celebrate our success.

Ok so maybe not everyone will join me on step 5, but it’s a good way to destress.

Continue Reading…

The Beginning – You’ve registered your domain, now what?

This is the first video of the [Get Started] series specially for WordPress beginners.

So You Want A WordPress Site Eh?

So you have come up with that great idea. You surfed over to your domain registration company of choice, possibly Godaddy like I use. Once you’ve registered the domain you feel great, you smile, and then you realize, “ah man, I have to setup the website now.” Well, if you are wanting to set up your website on WordPress, then this series will walk you through that process.

It’s always fun to setup new websites and properties. What isn’t always fun is spending a lot of time researching “how” to install the web software you need. Once it’s installed, you want to make sure you are optimizing the settings to squeeze the full potential out of the CMS (Content Management System) that will empower you to ultimately publish your content. I love WordPress and this series will guide you through Setting up your web host, your database, and finally installing and configuring WordPress. In the following video I discuss where I’m at in “the beginning” phase of this very website you are reading.

Continue Reading…