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Last updated: Thursday, June 7, 2007

I am often asked how to setup a website.

How to Set Up a Website

How to set up a website - General rules

First of all I recommend using a Content Management System

Why? - Because if you can type you to can add content pages
The system takes care of menus, telling the search engines and the rest
And because the search engines like blogs because of the fresh content
And finally because it is easy to update the look and feel in seconds

For a beginner I recommend wordpress to set up a business web site

Why? - Because there are free plugins for almost any purpose-
shopping carts, photo albums, you name it, you can get it!
And because the installation only takes a minute

For more advanced users Joomla may be preferable because of the look and feel.

How to set up a website - A domain and a website

If you are new I suggest www.godaddy.com one of the biggest professional hosters in the world.

First register a domain
Register a PHP hosting account
Wait for the account to become active
Attach the domain to the hosting account
Set up a single SQL database choose version 4

How to set up a website - Download wordpress

Next download wordpress

Set up a folder called websites on your computer
Set up a subfolder called wordpress
Download wordpress from wordpress.org
Unzip
Choose an FTP tool
Set up the FTP connection
Download the contents of the folder wordpress to your host account

How to set up a website - Set up wordpress

Now store the SQL database settings

Go to godaddy, enter my host account, and find the setup information for your database
Edit the file wp-config-sample.php and enter the username , password, and server name
Save to wp-config.php and download
Run www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install
Follow the instructions

How to set up a website - Find a good theme

There are a mass of themes, available free on the wordpress site

Select one you like
Create a directory under websites named themes
Download the theme to that directory and unzip
Load the contents too wp-content/plugins

How to set up a website - Activate plugin and go

To activate the plugin
Got to presentation
FInd the picture of your new theme
Click on it.

Delete or rename wp-admin/install.php

How to set up a website - Your first category and post

Go into the admin panel at
New categories can be set up in “Manage Categories”
Add a category
Select Write and Post
Add the post!

How to set up a website - FInd useful plugins

Now select suitable plugins
For example e-commercial is a fully fledged shopping cart

How to set up a website - Job Done

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