published Sunday, March 13th, 2011 at 9:52 pm by
Samsonmedia
Here’s a three-part tutorial that will show you:
- How to acquire a domain name for your WordPress blog (www.yourname.com)
- How to set up a WordPress Hosting acount on GoDaddy
- How to associate your domain name with your hosting account and your WordPress blog
TUTORIAL #1: Setting Up Your Domain Name
In the first tutorial we will show you how to sign up and pay for a domain name on GoDaddy.
Please note, you can actually sign up for a domain name, sign up for hosting and set up WordPress on your hosting acount all at the same time. But for the purposes of these tutorials and breaking down the tasks for easy understanding, we broke it down into three separate steps.
As mentioned in the tutorial, we claimed a domain name (two of them actually) that ended in the .info extension instead of the .com extension. The reason? .info extensions are extremely: cheap and for the purposes of these tutorials we just went with the least expensive option, which in this case was about $2 a YEAR for each domain name. Hard to beat that price! The two domain names we grabbed were:
TUTORIAL #2: How To Set Up A WordPress Hosting Account on GoDaddy
GoDaddy actually offers hosting account just for WordPress. You could also install WordPress on a regular GoDaddy shared hosting account but this variation eliminatees a few steps and gets you right into the WordPress set up a lot faster so that’s the route we chose for this tutorial.
PLEASE NOTE: as we menetioned above, you could register a domain name, set up the hosting and then launch your WordPress blog all as part of the same set-up. We chose to break it up inton 3 parts for the purpose of these tutorials.
NOTE: Also, we chose the shortest duration of hosting — 3 months, only because it was the least expensive option and it would get us through the 4 weeks of the adult ed class that these tutorials were created for. For you, we recommend setting up your hosting for at least a year. If you know you’re serious about having a domain name and blog, even 2 ,3 or 5 years would be the best value. Plus, the search engines actually rate longer registrations more favorably since they are less likely to be “fly by night” companies that are here today and gone tomorrow.
TUTORIAL #3: How to Setup Your WordPress Blog on GoDaddy
This will be the final step for installing WordPress on your hosting account assuming you’ve already purchased a domain name and associated it with your hosting account. Now comes time to launch WordPress on the account!
Again, you can do this as all part of the same initial set-up but we broke it up into three distinct parts for the purposes of these tutorials
TECH SUPPORT: Please note that if at any time you have a problem setting up your WordPress hosting account, ALL the hosting companies we listed offer 24/7 tech support to guide you through the process on the phone!
