The first stage of making my website was to buy a domain name, I bought it a couple years ago because I noticed another person using the name Louis Loveless was gaining popularity on Instagram and was probably going to buy a domain for it at some point. I wanted my real name, and .co.uk so that viewers will know I'm based in the UK. The company that was offering it to me for the cheapest was 1&1 (since has changed its name to IONOS)
Next I had to purchase some space on the internet, known as Cloud Hosting, the website that offered the best deal was TSO Hosting. This costs monthly, and so does the domain name, so to simplify things, and to reduce the cost slightly I transferred my domain from the first provider 1&1 to the provider of my hosting space TSO Hosting.
I had to authorise the move with 1&1 first, starting the move, and was given the authorisation code which I typed into the domain transfer page on TSO Host.
To install WordPress on TSO Host you have to log in to your domain control panel. I have encountered issues trying to log into my control panel many times, as it isn't labelled very clearly in the client area of the TSO Host website. When searching online, many sites, including TSO's own recommends to simply type http://control.gridhost.co.uk to your browser then log in with the details you made your TSO account with, but this hasn't worked for me any of the times I have tried it, despite me using the correct details, eventually I found a work around, which I forgot a couple times and found myself locked out of building my website, and so have since made screenshots of in order to remind myself how to do it.
On your TSO client area, look for a menu that says Services
This will take you to a page titled My Products & Services, and you then click on your URL in the list
This takes you to a page which gives you the option to log in to your control panel
Now you are into your control panel you need to click on Add New Website, this will take awhile. Once its created a new website in the list with the URL you have registered it with you can click on it, and then click on Manage Websites, this is where you make changes to the new website you have created on the domain you have with TSO Host. Scroll down to the bottom of the page.
Then click "Install Application"
Then install WordPress
Then log in to the WordPress builder that's been installed into my webspace to start building my website.
Next I had to purchase some space on the internet, known as Cloud Hosting, the website that offered the best deal was TSO Hosting. This costs monthly, and so does the domain name, so to simplify things, and to reduce the cost slightly I transferred my domain from the first provider 1&1 to the provider of my hosting space TSO Hosting.
Now my domain and cloud hosting space are joined, making one monthly bill, TSO Host also offers application add-ons, that allows you to join other web services to your webspace, including WordPress. I should be able to install WordPress into my TSO Hosting account and use the simplified WordPress web builder and free themes to make my website, but still have my own domain instead of louisloveless.wordpress.com.
I started with WordPress as a web-builder, but felt it was too hard to transform the blog layout into a website format, and so changed to Wix, because their web-builder is really easy to use. However, after building a whole website on it, I realised you had to buy a premium account subscription in order to link it to a domain, and so I did, making a third monthly payment. Suddenly this entire website making progress had become extremely expensive. I then realised I would have to remove the TSO cloud hosting from the domain name again, because Wix forces you to buy the hosting space from them and so no hosting sites can have Wix as an application add-on because Wix doesn't allow it. This meant I had to abandon that site and go back to using WordPress as it is supported by webhosting services. I also realised that the process of making a website on WordPress is simplified when using a theme, which I didn't know the first time round.
On your TSO client area, look for a menu that says Services
This will take you to a page titled My Products & Services, and you then click on your URL in the list
This takes you to a page which gives you the option to log in to your control panel
Now you are into your control panel you need to click on Add New Website, this will take awhile. Once its created a new website in the list with the URL you have registered it with you can click on it, and then click on Manage Websites, this is where you make changes to the new website you have created on the domain you have with TSO Host. Scroll down to the bottom of the page.
Then click "Install Application"
Then install WordPress
Then log in to the WordPress builder that's been installed into my webspace to start building my website.
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