Website help.
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Personally, I prefer to design my own sites, rather than simply assemble them online using the hosting company's wizard. It not only gives you more control over the design and function, but if you do decide to change hosts, you've still got the full site setup on your hard drive ready to upload to the new servers. Something like MS Frontpage works fine for most things. there are also plenty of free WYSIWYG HTML editors which enable you to assemble the site visually. Komodo seems to be pretty good.
Once you've got the site and all the links working just the way you want it on your hard drive, you can then just upload the entire thing to your domain using an FTP client like Filezilla.
Most of these clients operate the same way...with your hard drive in the pane on the left and the remote site in the pane on the right. All you need to do is read the documentation from the hosting company to see which folder to drop your files into...then it's pretty much drag and drop; and bingo! you're active.
Doing it that way also means that you can dry run different things first, on your PC, without screwing up your actual site. -
Yup, I'm going with them.
So, wtf is wordpress and why is it better tham joomla, concrete5, etc?
Another thing I like the Interactive photo gallery website templates but is that wordpress? do I know what I'm talking about?...no.
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WP, Joomla, Drupal and all just simple content management systems. You have an editor very similar to a word processor where you can ad links and all to your posts and such.
Different engines but basically they all do the same. Don't worry about that part until you are there.
Here is how the WordPress back-end of making a post looks like. Simpler than MS Word IMO.
Alan, I have also made websites like that. I even often play around in the php scripts of my current sites but believe me, Pete is not the kind who would learn any of those html editors.
An installed CMS system basically has three parts;
- database with all what you wrote (pages, posts, navigation and all)
- the files that work as a website (generally php)
- uploaded attachments (mostly images in case of Pete)
All these things can be backed up and re-installed when you go to another host.
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LOL@ Alan
You over estimate my abilities.
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What do you want to do with your website?
Wordpress is a great blogging tool. Will you be blogging or will you have a static site?
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As for galleries; they are available for most of the cms systems (and there are tons of different gallery plugins).
This one is WordPres for instance:
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Okay, I have made the first step, I paid for two years, site lock and premium backup. Now I cannot back out.
Tallbridgeguy, I want to have images, sell models, some tutorial videos, um...that's about it. Maybe a blog, dunno what to blog about, but who knows I may think of something 3D related.
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Pete, have you downloaded all the content from your existing site? Note that it may be shut of soon (as soon as they arrange the domain transfer). I don't know how you can access that site (and the back-end of it).
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No I have not, I just signed up, I have not cancelled with Microsoft yet. I'm guessing I have time to build a site this month and by the 21st I can cancel my hosting with them and it should just work.
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@unknownuser said:
No I have not, I just signed up, I have not cancelled with Microsoft yet. I'm guessing I have time to build a site this month and by the 21st I can cancel my hosting with them and it should just work.
But Pete, your domain is going to be transferred soon. Can you access the back-end of your current site without the domain? If yes, no problem of course.
@solo said:
Tallbridgeguy, I want to have images, sell models, some tutorial videos, um...that's about it. Maybe a blog, dunno what to blog about, but who knows I may think of something 3D related.
Well, these cms systems come in two, basic flavour: with mainly static pages and/or a blog like system with frequent posts.
The Nova Theme you said you liked is mainly a static looking site with constant things on the home page and the latest posts (I guess in a certain category) only rotating in the slider.
It has a blog part however (which you could even make your front page). I guess you could use this part as a place to constantly add new projects (in case you can share) or similar and leave the static content alone.
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Pete, hostmonster typically gives you one free domain registration. I would suggest using your current domain url for a traditional website for commerce and then register a new domain for a wordpress blog.
Both would have unique urls and you can cross pollinate the material. (both work under your current plan.) Bonus having your work in multiple places plus you can use the wordpress postings on sketchucation instead of photobucket.
The blog would be a great place to show your process, work (which is fantastic) and give customers a great place to see WIP.
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@gaieus said:
Very important;
- Before you do anything, back up everything you currently have. Download all images and copy all text if you do not have a simple FTP access (your current site is not that difficult).
- Send an email to all current work contacts that you are transferring your site and domain and until everything is set up correctly, they should be able to contact you via a different email adress.
This is important as it may take some time (even a couple of days) until an existing domain is transferred correctly and all the rest of the internet "gets used to it" (don't ask what this means)
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Reading this on and off all day. Why not combine forces and help Pete out? He does so much for everyone around here. We could have a 'Solosplace Testdrive' thread kinda like that other one
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Like when I talk to my dog and he does not understand, he tilts his head to the left, I'm doing the same thing right now.
Huh!? but what now, how do I download all my images without doing it one by one? I can access my gallery and see them all but no way to download them all, I tried backing up to disk in a .olp file (wtf) and it failed.
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@unknownuser said:
We could have a 'Solosplace Testdrive' thread kinda like that other one
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@solo said:
...how do I download all my images without doing it one by one? I can access my gallery and see them all...
Then do that... Don't lose them again.
Did you not get an ftp access to your site when you signed up?@unknownuser said:
Why not combine forces and help Pete out? He does so much for everyone around here...
What do you think we are doing? I even offered him to install and get his site up and running once he does the paperwork.
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@unknownuser said:
I even offered him to install and get his site up and running once he does the paperwork
I'd take that offer Pete before you go any further
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I belive my pathetic plea for help implied my acceptance of that very kind offer.
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Okay, I have a cpanel, lots of stuff with names that mean nothing to me, so... what now, how do I start? do I install wordpress? I'm all thumbs.
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Step away from cpanel...you want to secure all your original website data first!
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(a) transfer your domain name to use our registrar, or
(b) configure the nameserver settings at the domain's current registrar to point to our nameservers:s
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