I finally registered my domain! Following Professor Ryan’s instructions, I was able to smoothly complete the registration.
It was not difficult at all as I thought it would be. Reclaim hosting took me step by step to complete the basic registration process. I took notes of the username and password that I created. I was nervous because I thought creating a website must be very difficult. Now I have it, it’s there! I cannot wait to start blogging.
I chose my final domain name among a few which I considered last week. This week, following professor Ryan’s tutorial I registered that domain for free using reclaim hosting. I downloaded WordPress on my laptop, which will help me to customize and administrate my site. The entire time I was excited still I paid full attention to our professor’s tutorial because I did not want to miss any important part of the process. He went through the steps about how to upload images as my site icon, background image, how to create a logo, etc; but I am not sure which images to put there yet. So, for now I left it as it is. I do not think I want a site title, so I checked off the display of a title for my site. The WP administration gives me access to make necessary edit to my site and after our last session, I know how to access my domain.
Now it’s out there in the internet world! 🙂 But I am going to take my time customizing it. I have started to think how to customize it. Any suggestions for site icons are welcome!
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Hey Sajani, I enjoy reading your blog post. What is the name of your website and what is your website about? I can give you suggestions if I had more insight into the theme of your website. Always be yourself and always be creative when designing your online portfolio.
Hey, thank you! I didn’t share my website yet because I left it as it is lol. I am going to share the link as soon as I am done customizing it. I am still thinking about what to put as my background/site icon/ etc. And, it is going to be my writing blog!
All good! Yess, we will go over this in class this coming week, there si so much that can be done and so many ways to do it creatively! 🙂
Great work on this! We will dig into the 1st series of customizing things tomorrow in class!
PS- did you download a “local” version of wordpress from wordpress.org to your laptop? Or did you mean that you installed wordpress by following my demonstration video? Thank you!
Hi Professor, thank you! And, I installed wordpress by following your demonstration.
Ok perfect! Thank you!
I asked because there is a way to install a “local” version of wordpress to one’s own computer, but it is a slightly more rigorous and technical series of steps. The last time I tried it that way I struggled, haha it took me hours – the way we learned is way faster!