Business Website

Martynt74 · 28 Jul 2015 at 12:02

My wifes setting up a business and needs a fairly basic website created. Just a home page, and about her page and then links to her facebook page and to upload pictures and news.

I did a quick search and found a comment saying that Go Daddy suck which made me wonder who was recommended?

My mum creates websites and had previously made one in dreamweaver but I think my wife wants something a lot simpler that she can just log into an online server and update things easily.

Martynt74 · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:01

Cheers guys, I agree that wordpress seems to be the wat forward here, just wasn't sure of the best way to go about hosting it.

I've got my mums help so don't mind going to separate providers for ease. Just didn't want to be stung with £15 a month charges from someone like 1and1!

Martynt74 · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:05

gord said:
Sounds like you want something simpler than hosting your own Wordpress site. Take a look at wordpress.com, it's wordpress but they host it. You can still pick your own theme and have your own domain etc.

How would I use my own domain? They seem to want to have www.websitename.wordpress.com

Or is it in the settings later on?

Martynt74 · 29 Jul 2015 at 08:50

Great, thanks guys. I think I’m more than capable (Big words!) of sorting out the domain and hosting myself so will definitely explore those options.

For the wordpress side, am I right in thinking that I still create the actual site on the wordpress site, using their themes etc and then migrate that over to another hosting company? If so how does Wordpress actually make any money from the service?

Martynt74 · 29 Jul 2015 at 10:51

I looked at something like that Hutchy but it works out around £50 a year compared to say £30 for hosting/domain registration.

Although I suppose £20 a year isn't a drastic amount of money!

Martynt74 · 4 Aug 2015 at 13:45

Cheers Hutchy, after downloading Wordpress I'm not sure whether I have the time/inclination to learn how to do what I need which started to point towards Wix/Squarespace.

Annoyingly they charge an extra premium for an email address. Is there another way to get a domain linked email without paying around an extra $50/yr?

Martynt74 · 4 Aug 2015 at 15:24

AHarvey said:
find a free wordpress template you like (or buy one)

Create a word doc that lays out what pages you want and the content/images.

Fire it over to me along with an admin account login/password and i'll spend an hour getting it sorted for you. Or a little longer if you've nothing set up at all yet

Seriously, it is super easy to use once it's initially set up

That's insanely generous of you, although we've not really got much of an idea of layout/content in mind yet.

I've been doing some further reading and have setup a pretty basic Wordpress site on their regular site (www.silverbirchhydrotherapy.wordpress.com) which I think helps show me I can get something going at least to use as a starting point.

I'll sign up with a hosting company and see how I get and just use you guys if I get stuck rather than throwing in the towel entirely

EDIT - Am I right in thinking that if I create something from scratch and host it myself, it won't include the "Blog at wordpress" and theme links at the bottom?

Martynt74 · 4 Aug 2015 at 15:51

Weebly again seems a lot more (cost wise) than manual hosting.

I've purchased a doman and signed up for the free 000webhost account but looks like the free email accounts are limited to 20mb which is pretty much bugger all. Think I'll go with Vidahost as mentioned above. Unless there are any other free ones with slightly better storage limits?

EDIT – Say I bought a domain name (.co.uk) and Vidahosts offer a free domain with their hosting services. How would I go about getting the .com version free with the host and then point my registered .co.uk towards the .com site to get the best of both .co.uk and .com domains?

Martynt74 · 4 Aug 2015 at 16:12

Yeah the .com was showing as free so thought since I'd already bought the .co.uk (£4 for 2 years) I could use both rather than having wasted the £4.

Martynt74 · 7 Aug 2015 at 08:23

Nice one guys.

I'm all set up. Domain is sorted and host is sorted along with a very basic thing created so far while my wife and I play with themes.

One question though. My domain is www.silverbirchhydrotherapy.co.uk. The wordpress is set up on www.silverbirchhydrotherapy.co.uk/wp

How do I set the wordpress part to be on the main URL? I thought I'd found the right bit in the settings but no luck.

Martynt74 · 7 Aug 2015 at 10:07

Oh bugger. Can I export the Wordpress and then reimport to save the settings I've made?

Yes about the Cpanel installation.