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For site design and building, should I wait to buy hosting or pay for hosting, then work on design?

by Dr Allopathy
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There are a variety of tools on the web which I can look to for guidance in building a nice site. W3, youtube, and many indies have wonderful information out there on using HTML, CSS, and some other languages which will become important to me in the future.

Now, seeing as I'm still unfamiliar with programming and coding in these languages, should I go ahead and purchase hosting and my domain for the niche I'm settling into? Or should I practice elsewhere?


I know I can simply use a WP theme, but I do want more control over how the content is placed. Then again, I don't want to offset the potential revenue I can generate.

Any thoughts or recommendations? Any information is greatly appreciated this forum appears to be very helpful!
#building #buy #design #hosting #pay #site #wait #work
  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    Unless you want to compete in a web design competition... "design" is over-rated when it comes about making money online. I assume you are interested in the latter, otherwise you'd be in some other forum(s).

    When it comes about revenue, income, profit etc. - learning design should be your last worry (except if you want to make money as a freelancer designer).

    Rather learn about your 'niche' and do all the required tasks: market research, KW research, make plans for getting traffic, get the content ready... have a converting copy and so on.

    FYI: any HTML file (together with the connected CSS) can be seen on your computer in the process of design - just click them in your Windows Explorer and they will open in your default browser.
    And for dynamic (PHP+MySQL powered) sites you can always set up XAMPP to run them locally.
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    • Profile picture of the author RobinInTexas
      Do as Istvan suggests, then do your research, buy a domain and launch a WordPress website.

      You can agonize until the cows come home trying to get the design "perfect" before you start trying to get traffic and building income, or you can create a good site and make improvements.

      Just don't forget about making regular backups of your site and securing it from hackers. Hardening WordPress « WordPress Codex
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      ...Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just set there.
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  • Profile picture of the author EzeadMedia
    Hosting is cheap - put up a site even if just to start your SEO and submit it to DMOZ(important) and the other search engines on a weekly bases - also start to develop some links.

    Then work on the site and getting the design perfect.

    For your workstation grab:

    https://github.com/WPN-XM/WPN-XM

    It is a Free Windows stack that has (as quoted from GitHub):

    The groundation of the server stack consists of NGINX, PHP and MariaDB. Additionally XDebug, XhProf and Webgrind were added for profiling and debugging purposes; phpMyAdmin and Adminer for MySQL database administration purposes; memcached and APC for caching; ZeroMQ for socket magic. WPИ-XM provides a webinterface for server administration and a server control panel (tray application) which makes starting and stopping of daemons easy. The abbreviation WPИ-XM consists of the initial letters of Windows, PHP, NGINX, XDebug and MariaDB.

    Since sun aquired MySql my feeling is that it will shortly no longer be free of at least the free version will not be further developed - so learn to use MariaDB and Nginx is the server platform of the future for speed and low overhead.

    WPH-HM blows Xampp away so use it.

    My 2 cents worth.

    Frank
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    • Profile picture of the author kwc
      I agree. I would focus more on learning to bring traffic to your site opposed to focusing on "design". You can learn to build your site in no time, with no coding experience.

      Good luck with your venture.
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