As I'm trying to launch my business on a low-cost, DIY basis I registered my business domain name using Dotster but then want to host the website content using my existing personal hosting account with GoDaddy. So I had to set up a 'redirect' of the URL from the name servers at Dotster to the hosting at GoDaddy. Took a bit of fiddling around but it seems to be working OK.
The next step was to install Wordpress for that domain in GoDaddy, and install a suitable 'Theme' (free of course). I eventually picked 'Sydney' after dabbling with 'Tesseract' but not being able to get it to work properly. I had a bit of trouble getting the recommended plugins (Elementor and Sydney Tools) working until I eventually figured out that I needed to upgrade the version of PHP installed in my GoDaddy hosting from 5.2 to 5.4 (and eventually I went to 5.6 as it was needed by 'Appointment Booking Scheduler' by Weblizar that I'll use for my online client booking tool).
I now seem to have all the tools installed to create the website content I have (vaguely) in mind - so the next stage is to sketch out my sitemap and page layouts and to actually write my page content, pick some suitable (free) stock photos to use etc. I could waste tons of time fiddling around with this stuff (I already wasted time browsing through free stock photos to pick a suitable background image for my page 'header' background), so I'll have to be quite disciplined about working towards a website that is 'fit for purpose' rather than trying to make it an award-winning masterpiece.
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