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WordPress Blog Design: Hosting

By: AimItMedia Sunday, 11th of October 2009

After you’ve got your domain name purchased, you need to get it “live” on a web host provider. In the previous article -WordPress Blog Design: Domains, we used GoDaddy to purchase our domain name. Now you could use GoDaddy for your hosting as well, which may make it easier by having everything with one provider, but read on to find out why it’s not your best option.

I found that as I wanted to customize my website, GoDaddy was more restrictive for what I wanted to do on their servers. In particular, I use WordPress (blogging platform) on all of my websites and certain plugins require access to your web host’s server so they can alter some files and I wasn’t able to use a few plugins that I wanted because of the GoDaddy restrictions.

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WordPress Blog Design: Domains

By: AimItMedia Sunday, 4th of October 2009

Think of your domain name as the written version of your logo or your tagline personified.
Your best choice would be www.yourbusinessname.com.

If your business name isn’t available, then choose something that’s just as easily associated with and descriptive of your business.

Research shows that the majority of people use what’s called “direct navigation” when they go online.
That means that they type in a business name or web address directly into their browser’s address bar without going to a search engine first. Then if they don’t find what they are looking for, they use a search engine (like Google or Yahoo).

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