What are Hosting Server and Domain Name and why I need these for my website?

Domain Names
When you have a website visitor, they use your domain name to view your website (for example www.yourwebsite.com). When a site visitor enters your domain name into a browser, the domain is then translated into your server IP address, then the server sends that user your site files, which their browser represents to them as a typical web-page.

Web-Hosting Servers
The web hosting is much like the space that you rent out to have your business in. It’s the space provided by your host, to store your website files on a special online server. Without the hosting services, you won’t have a place for your files to reside, so your domain would then become like a disconnected phone number in the phone directory, and your site files would have nowhere to stay.

In order to have your own website you need to buy your own hosting account and domain name. We do not provide such services and they are not included in our price, but you can see our “Recommended Hosting” page for some reliable and affordable hosting providers. You can choose the domain name you like (if it is available) when signing up for hosting.

What is WordPress and why you need to install it on my domain?

WordPress is a free, open source website platform. It’s probably the easiest and most powerful website content management system in existence today. In order to have ability easily to update your website on your own, we use the the WordPress platform for your website. You can also easily add plug-ins, new themes, and upgrade your website in the future.

WordPress is provided free of charge by your hosting provider and they usually have an automatic installation tool available via your hosting control panel.

Once we agree on the final website design, in order to proceed, we need to install the WordPress platform at your domain (you need a hosting plan that supports WordPress). We can give you guidance how to install WordPress on your own or we may install it for you but will need your hosting Control Panel log-in to do so (you will change the password after we are done).

Why you can’t complete my website on your server and then upload it on my hosting?

The WordPress installations on our server are for design/layout mockups only, so we can’t upload the client’s files or content there. Once we agree on the design, we need to install the website on the client server and then we can start including the content (text, pictures, pages, etc.) provided by the client..