Getting Started
There’s a few things you’ll need to started, here’s how it works:
1. Web Hosting
Every website needs a web host before it can be viewed online. Think of this as retail space in a shopping center or mall. You rent the space and fill it with your items, in this case, a website full of content. There are several options that JG Media can suggest, however if you have your own web host, that’s fine too. You can skip this step, but you’ll need to provide some information to connect to your existing host and upload your website.
2. Domain name
This is the sign above your retail space, or rather what your visitors are going to type into their browsers to access your website. (myquickstarter.com, for example.) This can usually be purchased at the same time and place you sign up for web hosting.
3. FTP Information
This information allows for a direct connection to your hosting space with the web host. It’s the easiest way to place WordPress files necessary for your site to run. One of our suggested hosts, BlueHost, has a helpful guide to creating FTP accounts here. That WordPress installation will also need to be connected to a database though
4. Database information
This will be the last necessary bit of information required to install and set up WordPress. It tells WordPress what server to connect to and authorizes it to use a database to store information.
* You may be able to have your hosting provider configure all of the above for you and most web hosting companies now have a very quick, automated method for installing WordPress. That way, you’ll just need to give us a WordPress username and password. We can then access your dashboard and very quickly install your entire website.
If you already have a WordPress installation you’d like to use for Quickstarter, that’s great! That’s the quickest and easiest method, but understand if that WordPress website already has content, it will be overwritten with your Quickstarter.
We make a backup prior to your new website installation just in case though. This method is as if you installed WordPress through your web host above. Just provide a username and password to log into WordPress and JG Media can handle the rest.