http://familymanfitness.com A family man's journey towards fitness. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:00:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://familymanfitness.com/2008/10/20/how-to-setup-your-weightloss-motivational-website-part-1/ http://familymanfitness.com/2008/10/20/how-to-setup-your-weightloss-motivational-website-part-1/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:03:42 +0000 RL Morgan http://crossfitallen.com/?p=163 If you would like me to put a quick website up for you I’d be happy to help out.  There are a few things you will need to do to get it going.  I will handle the technical side for you.  The process I will layout here is probably one of the cheapest routes to go but will still provide you with a professional looking site.

1. Find a domain name.
   • You want to go with a .com if at all possible.  I usually buy the .net, .info, and .org if I have enough money sitting around.
   • Use http://instantdomainsearch.com/ all you have to do is start typing and it will check .com, .net, and .org for you.  Once you have found a site that is available go to step 2.
2. Buy your domain names.
   • I buy my domain names from 1and1.com, right now they are giving .biz domain names away for free for the next 6 days.  So hurry up and figure out your .com so that we can lock in the .biz as well.   Click here to go to 1&1.
3. Purchase a website hosting plan.
   • I use powweb and right now it’s running a really great deal.  For the next 11 days it’s $46.56 for one year of service.  Click here to go to powweb. If you need help going through the purchasing process just call one and one customer service – they are great.
4. Set it up.
   • Once you’ve done all of the above; call or send me the logins to 1&1 and Powweb.  I will setup your domains and get a shell website going.  While I am doing that you move to step 5.
5. Find a WordPress theme.
   • Pick out a few different themes and send them to me in an email.  I’ll show you how to change them out and see what they look like with your content.
   • Look at the themes at the WordPress site.   I like the Most Popular options the best, they are usually up to date and will serve our purposes.  We aren’t trying to get rich here we are trying to setup accountability.
6. Add some content.
   • I’ll teach you how to upload your recordings and pictures as well as write articles/postings to the site in a later posting.

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