Johnny Posted July 20, 2005 Posted July 20, 2005 (edited) I feel overwhelmed. We are a pediatric therapy company and need a website. I don't know the first thing about it but ya'll come recommended. Walk me through this 1. I register my domain name. Is there a right way or a wrong way to do this? 2. I sign up for one of your hosting packages. How could I possibly know which one? 3. Is creating a website difficult? Is there software involved? Is that free? Do ya'll provide the software? support? 4. We need an online store. Probably never more than 10 items for sale. Is this additional software? Is it difficult? Do ya'll provide it? support? 5. We need a bb/forum. I'm a member of 2 currently on Invision and am very pleased. I know this is extra, but how do you know which to start out with? Can you start out small and then upgrade later? Are the archives stored or do the just fall of the internet? Is there a way to have a click through add to offset the expense? Edited July 20, 2005 by Johnny Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted July 20, 2005 Posted July 20, 2005 Hi and welcome to the forum, Johnny. 1. I register my domain name. Is there a right way or a wrong way to do this?The only wrong thing you can do is to not being able to be the registrar yourself I think. With this I mean that some registrar companies will not let you be the owner of your own domain. TCH will. You can read more here. 2. I sign up for one of your hosting packages. How could I possibly know which one? It is nearly impossible to say which one is the correct one for you. It all depends if you are using content that takes up a lot of space and consumes bandwidth, to name a few that will consume much of it are pictures and video. This problem also include that we don´t know how much visitors you may get. But the good part is that if you have purchased a hosting package that you feel is too small for your needs you can easily upgrade. 3. Is creating a website difficult? Is there software involved? Is that free? Do ya'll provide the software? support?Creating websites is not much more difficult than using any wordprocessor I think. There are a range of programs you can use, from notepad to very advanced programs. These are not included in the hosting account, so you will have to get a program yourself.As for support, TCH does not provide support for any programs or scripts you may use,but there are lots of people in this forum willing to answer any qquestion you might have. 4. We need an online store. Probably never more than 10 items for sale. Is this additional software? Is it difficult? Do ya'll provide it? support? There is a few online store scripts provided in the cpanel of your account. Unfortunately I don´t know too much about them so I will leave that for someone else to answer. As for support, see answer for question # 3 5. We need a bb/forum. I'm a member of 2 currently on Invision and am very pleased. I know this is extra, but how do you know which to start out with? Can you start out small and then upgrade later? Are the archives stored or do the just fall of the internet? Is there a way to have a click through add to offset the expense? There is 2 forum scripts included in cpanel. These are Invision and phpbb. Hope this helps and let us know if you wonder anything else. Quote
TCH-Don Posted July 20, 2005 Posted July 20, 2005 Welcome to the forum Johnny I feel overwhelmed. We are a pedi atric therapy company and need a website. I don't know the first thing about it but ya'll come recommended. Walk me through this 1. I register my domain name. Is there a right way or a wrong way to do this? You can register the domain name here or wherever you wish.When you get a hosting account you will get the directions on pointing the domain name to your account. 2. I sign up for one of your hosting packages. How could I possibly know which one? You can start with one package and if you need more space or bandwidth (all traffic to and from your site) you can open a help desk ticket to upgrade to a bigger package. 3. Is creating a website difficult? Is there software involved? Is that free? Do ya'll provide the software? support?Totalchoicehosting will provide the web space, but its up to you to create and maintain the site.There are many ways and programs to do this, so you can see TCH cannot support all the possible programs that are out there. 4. We need an online store. Probably never more than 10 items for sale. Is this additional software? Is it difficult? Do ya'll provide it? support? There are two shopping cart scripts that can act as an on line store found in your cpanel (web site control panel) and can be installed with a few mouse clicks. But they have a steep learning curve. I am sure others will have more advice on this. 5. We need a bb/forum. I'm a member of 2 currently on Invision and am very pleased. I know this is extra, but how do you know which to start out with? Can you start out small and then upgrade later? Are the archives stored or do the just fall of the internet? Is there a way to have a click through add to offset the expense? Again in your cpanel you can install two forums: Invision - the last free version and not supported by the creators. phpBB - more popular as it is still free and their forum has lots of good information on using and modifying it. And you can download others from the internet and follow their instructions on installing. The posts in your forum are stored in what is called a MySql server (database) and you can make your own backups in cpanel>backu> download databases. Hopefully this helps. if you have more questions, please ask Quote
cajunman4life Posted July 21, 2005 Posted July 21, 2005 A very warm welcome. As was mentioned earlier, there are plenty of people around here who would be more than willing to help with designing your website. Quote
Madmanmcp Posted July 21, 2005 Posted July 21, 2005 Hi Johnny, you have two options here and so far you have been given instructions for one of them. Your second option would be to hire someone to do the web pages for you. Yes, you could probably do it yourself if you had the time to learn, but there are thousands of folks out there who already know how and can put up a very profesional site, quickly, and for a small fee. So I would suggest you look at both options, learning and doing it yourself, or hiring someone to put one up and turn it over to you once its completed. TCH offers Web Design packages and there are several members here who also offer these services. They can be found here: http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/web-host...inks=commercial Good luck with your site and welcome to the forum. Quote
TCH-Rob Posted July 21, 2005 Posted July 21, 2005 Please note, at this time we are not accepting requests for design services. Quote
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