Choosing a Domain Name Arguably the most important question a small business will face when launching their business online is: “What do you want to call your business website?” In internet speak, that’s your “Domain Name”. It’s your website’s address between the “www” and the “.com” or “.ca” for Canada, “.jp” in Japan, etc. Choosing […]
Step #2- Choose an Awesome Web Host
Choose a Web Hosting Company Once you have your website’s domain name, you need one more thing. You need a place to host your website. This is another foundational decision which will affect your Search Engine Rankings. Recently, Google has said that “site loading time is a factor in search engine rankings.” You also don’t […]
Step #3- Linking Your Domain Name with Your Web Host
Linking Your Domain Name and Web Host Okay we signed up for the two types of accounts that were going to need. So now were ready to link those two accounts together. Your web hosting company will send you an email that will have all this information that you’ll need. Find that email and look […]
Step #4- Installing WordPress
Installing WordPress There’s really two ways to install WordPress on your web host. The first way that I’m going to show you is the geeky, techie way which is a little bit confusing. WordPress calls this the famous five-minute install because it’s supposed to take you only about five minutes to do. But if it’s […]
Step #5- The Control Center
When you log into your WordPress website, you’re taken to the Dashboard. This is your control center where you will work with your website. The first time you login, you’re greeted by a Welcome screen which suggests some first steps for building your website. We will dismiss that Welcome for now, but we’ll be […]
