Website setup info

[PennLady]

I was wondering if anyone out there could give me some info here. My husband thinks I should set up a website, with possibly my own storefront, for my books and other things. Right now I only have a blog, because, hey, it's free. What I'd like to know, I think, is:

* Where's a good place to get a domain name?
* Where's a good place to set a site up -- with reasonable fees, etc.? I'm not in a position to set up my own server, nor do I really want to.
* How do you handle such things, if you do?

And anything else you think is relevant or helpful. Feel free to respond here or send me a PM.

Thanks in advance.

 

[autoplot]

I do my domain registration through GoDaddy. Some people don't care for them, but I have about 30 domains registered for my business, and I've never had a problem with them.

I do my hosting through Hostgator. We have an unlimited plan with them and we've never had any significant downtime. They have lots of one-click installs for various software, including blogging and e-commerce stuff, so you don't have to be terribly technical to get things running. Our hosting is quite cheap and we run the bulk of our domains on a single plan. Again, never had an issue.

So that's what works for me.

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

Not sure if this is useful or not, PL, but I remember this thread from a couple of months ago:

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=771428

 

[PennLady]

Thanks, both of you. I will need easy web stuff to set up. Way back when I actually used to write HTML for websites, but now it's so different, and there are so many easy design features, that I'm not sure I'd know where to begin anymore.

 

[autoplot]

Thanks, both of you. I will need easy web stuff to set up. Way back when I actually used to write HTML for websites, but now it's so different, and there are so many easy design features, that I'm not sure I'd know where to begin anymore.

Yeah. Blogging and CMS software has become so powerful and easy to use, there's rarely any compelling need to write your own HTML these days, especially if you're just trying to get something going for another, unrelated hobby.. In my opinion, of course.

 

[Stella_Omega]

You can sell your books off of your blog, as easily as off of any fancy site. And if you're already getting traffic there, you should keep it up. Just add pages advertising the books.

Buy your domain through any service that shows ICANN accreditation. Godaddy is okay, so is enom.com and inexpensivedomains.com. Not much difference in prices. Follow the directions.

If you want to build a brand new website from the ground up, and if you can't pay me to do it for you (I'm pretty cheap by the way, and I develop site around wordpress so that you can do your own maintenance) then-- go to http://weebly.com REALLY REALLY!

My sister rebuilt her own site on their system in a day. And she is getting excellent traffic and feedback.

 

[PennLady]

You can sell your books off of your blog, as easily as off of any fancy site. And if you're already getting traffic there, you should keep it up. Just add pages advertising the books.

Buy your domain through any service that shows ICANN accreditation. Godaddy is okay, so is enom.com and inexpensivedomains.com. Not much difference in prices. Follow the directions.

If you want to build a brand new website from the ground up, and if you can't pay me to do it for you (I'm pretty cheap by the way, and I develop site around wordpress so that you can do your own maintenance) then-- go to http://weebly.com REALLY REALLY!

My sister rebuilt her own site on their system in a day. And she is getting excellent traffic and feedback.

Thanks, Stella. My blog is at WordPress, but I'm leery of putting up any kind of sale button in case it sends me into the pay tier. I love free stuff, what I can I say.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Thanks, Stella. My blog is at WordPress, but I'm leery of putting up any kind of sale button in case it sends me into the pay tier. I love free stuff, what I can I say.

You can go with Weebly, and have links to the weebly.com pages in your blog, and links to the blog in your weebly.com pages. You can put your freebies onyourblog-- using the "Pages" function-- and link directly to the sale page on the other site.