Firstly you will need your own domain name, you can get cheap domain names here.

Once you have registered your domain name you need to get adequate hosting for your requirements, set up your website and then point the domain name to your new hosting.

Getting the Right Hosting Package
For website owners starting out, unless you suspect your site is going to attract massive traffic straight out of launch a 1 gig traffic plan should be more than sufficient and allow you to grow your site to a reasonable size before a package upgrade is required.

Diskspace normally starts at around 50MB for a smallish site, if you are intending having lots of images on your site you will need at least 500MB and possibly more further down the track. (Our hosting packages start at 500MB )

Blogs like Wordpress use MySQL and PHP, however some sites require ASP and SQL server, its really important that you know exactly what you need before choosing a hosting package. If you are in any doubt why don’t you ask us over at the mmmtalk forums and we can find out for you.

Transferring your Files
Getting your website onto your new site is normally a matter of FTP transferring the files. This means using a program like WS_FTP which you can trial for free by downloading here.

If you are setting up Wordpress for the first time, you may also need to first set up a database as well, and a database user. If you get hosting through Gristech.com we actually help you through this or even just do it for you so that you are not left bewildered and left struggling along on your own.

Setting up email
Once you have your hosting set up, your site rolled out and operational you can also set up email accounts at your domain, I recommend just to set up the account names that you require and forward them to your existing email address. There are ways however that you can use outlook to receive the email, or of course webmail. Once again we can assist with this.

If you would like to learn more you can check out our web hosting packages here.

Often when setting up a new venture it is hard to know where to go for advice, and we have been there as well. Our years of experience setting up databases and websites and even making money online has meant that often by using our knowledge you can save yourself the time and grief of trying all the things that “didn’t work”.

An example of this is even a Blog platform, when I started out blogging I really had no idea which was the best platform to use and spent a lot of time fooling around with all manner of different systems until finally I found Wordpress. Now this may seem obvious to many people however it wasn’t obvious to me at the time, I would have loved to have found a site like this that could have pointed me in the right direction from day one.

When you are in a partnership with someone else it is very important that your skills and strengths don’t overlap to much, for example if you are a great logo designer and you team up with another great logo designer thats all fine, until your site stops working and neither of you know how to fix it.

With my recent partnership with Greg we have I believe a unique and winning mix of technical skills, marketing and practical experience that means we can pretty much handle most situations that we are likely to encounter along the way.

I have partnerships with 2 other people on different sites and have been very lucky so far to meet up with motivated and easygoing individuals that help me work towards achieving my goals - as I help them achieve theirs.

Enjoy the site, make sure you ask any questions that you have, and feel free to hit us with any constructive criticism that you may have!