How to Redirect a Domain

October 6, 2011

Hey there! Last night in our WordPress Without Overwhelm class, this question came up: What do you do if you have more than one domain name for your website? This person has multiple domains registered, and she wants them all to go to the same place. For example, you might have registered http://yourname.com and http://your-name.com. [...]

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Three Years Ago I Walked Away

September 30, 2011

As we prepare to turn the page on the calendar to October, I’m reminded once again of a very important date. I wrote about it last year, but hey, it’s a new year, and it’s worth celebrating again. Three years ago, my little business was born. The day I walked away from my day job [...]

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How to Choose and Register a Domain Name

September 29, 2011

Now that you know a little bit about web hosting, I want to talk about domain names. Remember how we talked about URLs, and using your own domain name? Well, now we’re going to talk about how to actually get a domain name. How to choose a domain name Your domain name can be anything [...]

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Shared? VPS? Dedicated? How to Choose Web Hosting

September 27, 2011

In an earlier post I explained the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. I mentioned that for WordPress.org you would need to get your own hosting, and that has prompted some questions from my readers. So here’s what web hosting is: In order to have a self-hosted website, like with WordPress.org, you’ll need to set up [...]

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