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How to Convert a Parked Domain to an Addon Domain with Bluehost

In this session we walk one of our members through the process of converting a parked domain to an Addon domain with BlueHost.

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How to Manually Clone Your WordPress Website

The main purpose for learning how to manually clone a WordPress site is for porting a development site to its final domain. If you want to learn how to do this process manually rather than with BackupBuddy, then this series is for you.

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Set Up Your Site Using BlueHost

These are the first 5 lessons of our Start Building Your Website Here course.  This series uses BlueHost as a hosting company.  If you’ve chosen to host with BlueHost please follow these 5 lessons and then pick up at Phase 2 with lesson 6 using either Thesis or Genesis as your theme.  The entire series consists [...]

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Lesson 1 – Register your Domain & Setup your Hosting Account

This video tutorial is the starting point for learning how to build your own business website.  You will register a business domain name and sign up for a hosting account.  You will also take a tour of the control panel of your new hosting company.  Before starting this lesson you should select a domain name. [...]

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Lesson 3 – Part 1 – Install WordPress on your Site Using Simple Scripts

Install WordPress Using Simple Scripts Hi! and welcome to Lesson 3 of the How to Build a Website Tutorial Series. My name is Melissa and I’ll be your instructor for part of the series. The goal of this tutorial series is to show how you, with basic Word Processing and Desktop Publishing skills can develop, [...]

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Lesson 2 – Part 1 – Setup your New Business Email Account

Set Up and Configure a Business Email Account In this second lesson you will learn how to set up a business email account with your new hosting provider. You will learn how to set up and manage other email accounts and you’ll learn how to connect that business email account to Outlook 2003 and to your [...]

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Lesson 1 - Part 2 - Understanding your BlueHost Control Panel

Lesson 1 – Part 2 – Understanding your BlueHost Control Panel

Understanding the BlueHost Control Panel Now that you have established a web-hosting account and a business domain name it’s time to set it up from that point on. Select this button, “Control Panel For byobtutorial.com”. “Need Help Getting Started?” I’m going to say “no thanks, I’m fine” because I’m walking you through this process. You [...]

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Lesson 4 – Part 2 – Setup Local File System & Configure FileZilla

Setup Local File Structure and Configure FileZilla In this part of the lesson we’ll create a local file structure and configure FileZilla to connect to the file structure in your domain. First, we’ll create a local file structure.  This is my own personal philosophy on how to organize a file system so that it’s easy [...]

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How to Manually Clone Your WordPress Website – Part 2 – Make a Copy of Source Database

This is the second in a short series on cloning your WordPress website and installing it on another domain. This can be useful when moving a site from a development server to its final live location. In this lesson we will make a copy of the source database using phpMyAdmin. The host in this example [...]

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Lesson 2 – Part 2 – Configure Outlook 2003 to Use your Business Email Account

Configure Outlook 2003 To Get Your Mail From a New Business Email Account The first thing I’m going to do is open up Outlook. This is a clean installation of Outlook. It doesn’t have any email in it currently. To configure Outlook, go up to Tools and Email Accounts, you’ll add a new email account and click [...]

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Lesson 2 – Setup & Configure your New Business Email Account

This video tutorial shows you how to create and configure business email accounts with your new domain name from BlueHost.  Having an email address with your domain name in it is an important part of “branding” your website.  I am amazed at the number of small business owners I know who have websites but still [...]

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How to Manually Clone Your WordPress Website – Part 3 – Upload Source Files to the Target Site

This is the third in a short series on cloning your WordPress website and installing it on another domain. In this lesson we will upload the copy of the source files to the target website root directory. Video Transcript And I’m going to select my site zip and if I was downloading it, I’d download [...]

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Lesson 4 – Setup your FTP System

In this video tutorial you will learn to setup and configure the FTP and local file system for your site.  For easy maintenance of your WordPress website and customization it is essential to have a well organized file structure on both your local computer and your website.  It is also very useful to have those [...]

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How to Manually Clone Your WordPress Website – Part 4 – Create a Target Database and Database User

This is the fourth in a short series on cloning your WordPress website and installing it on another domain. In this lesson we use cPanel to create a new database and database user. Video Transcript Okay so what I’m going to do is create a database the way I normally do which is back here [...]

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Lesson 2 – Part 4 – Setup Additional Business Email Accounts

Setup Additional Business Email Accounts The next thing that we’re going to do is add more email accounts to your new domain. That is, add more email addresses because chances are you may have one or two employees or partners or people working with you who would benefit from having an email address with your [...]

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Lesson 3 – Part 5 – Introduction to Your Domain’s File Structure

Introduction to Your Domain’s File Structure Welcome back to the final part of Lesson 3 of the How to Build a Website Tutorial Series. In this final part of the lesson we are going to take a look at the WordPress File Structure on our domain. Let’s log in to our Bluehost account. Once in the control [...]

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How to Manually Clone Your WordPress Website – Part 5 – Import the Source Database

This is the fifth in a short series on cloning your WordPress website and installing it on another domain. In this lesson we use phpMyAdmin to import the source database into the target database. Video Transcript And now, we’re on to step 5 where we import the database. And we’re importing the database we exported [...]

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How to Manually Clone Your WordPress Website – Part 6 – Modify Target wp-config.php

This is the sixth in a short series on cloning your WordPress website and installing it on another domain. In this lesson we modify the target wp-config.php files so that it has the new database name, username and password. Video Transcript Now the task is to change our wp config. And so, we are going [...]

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Changing Your Bluehost Primary Domain

This member wonders if she should change her primary domain for her Bluehost account. We discuss why you might want to do that, the benefits of doing that and if there are any SEO implications. Video Transcript Rick: Yeah. Angela: Okay one last question about it. As long as I know it’s not a “subdomain”, [...]

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Add On Domains and Subdomains at Bluehost

This member wonders if she has properly configured her addon domains and subdomains at Bluehost.  We look at at the configuration of both her subdomains and addon domains in cPanel. Video Transcript Rick: So obviously, you have a question that came out of this morning’s session about subdomains. Angela: Yup. Rick: Why don’t you tell [...]

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