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Tyson Dover
3,862 Pointswhat path should I take with WordPress
I just joined in to Treehouse last week. I have already completed the track it first gave me with Joy which was a nice introduction to Treehouse. Now I am stuck on where to go with WordPress. I tried the track it suggested after I finished the courses with Joy (my last one was the MASH website) but I found it to be halfway through the steps of starting with WordPress.
My main goal with WordPress is to start making websites for my friends and hopefully that leads to paying jobs.
What is the best process for managing all these different accounts?
should I create a new account for each job?
or is there a way to have it all under one account?
should I use Godaddy or another site for URL and managing WordPress? I have a website now someone created for my demo reel through GoDaddy but I am paying something like $150 a year. Is there a cheaper alternative? The site is just videos and links to social media.
What path should I take for learning WordPress?
TIA. Cheers!
1 Answer
Tyson Dover
3,862 PointsThank you Louis that is all very good suggestions. Thank you for taking the time to answer me questions.
Louis Samuel
12,529 PointsLouis Samuel
12,529 PointsHi Tyson
I pay I think $5 per month for shared hosting with a company called stablehost, shared hosting is one of the cheapest options for hosting a site. With that you get something called cpanel which is sort of a standard interface for managing your hosting account and website.
It allows you to use html/css/javascript you've written yourself but you can install wordpress and run a wordpress site no problem as well as other CMS options like Joomla etc. On mine I've messed around with wordpress quite a bit, installed it, uninstalled it, reinstalled etc.
Once you are signed up with a hosting company you can setup and manage several sites with them only so don't necessarily need more than one account.
Best thing I can suggest is that you crack on with the wordpress track on treehouse and play around with a wordpress install as you go. You don't actually need a webhost to do this, people develop wordpress sites locally (on your own pc/laptop) using a virtual server and you actually learn how to set this up on the treehouse wordpress track.
If you want to build sites for friends and get paid you'll want to go through the web design track too. Not sure whether you have any experience with html/css/javascript but I doubt you'll get very far without knowing a bit.
Hope this helps :)
Louis