Hi Chris No worries on that info, happy to help out. There are no (major) issues in changing Domain Registrations and hosting. If you have things hosted or running already (email etc), it can be a bit of a "hiccup", but these are less and less these days. Can be a bit of slight downtime, but this varies from place to place. When I've done change over for clients I tend to do it all late at night (well, early hours of the morning) to alleviate the amount of down time. Most places say it can take 24-48 hours for a site to change to propagate around the internet (basically cache sites update that means). But when I've changed sites, I've found it's as little as 5 minutes locally or so. Then it just takes a bit longer to change around the world as cached versions get updated. But if a site moves or changes (or gets updated), this all happens behind the scenes, so generally runs smoothly. Changing a Domain Registrar is pretty easy too. Once activated one registrar just asks the other for the Domain Name. And it "swaps over". All pretty easy. Not much done on the clients end, all done from the middle man or business. I've done quite a few of them, and no hiccups with any of them. So all pretty easy.
Yes Wordpress is pretty popular for a lot of sites and people. I know quite a few people that run it and love it. One of my good friends runs his photography site through Wordpress and it's very impressive! And yes, they can certainly run a lot of things from it. Plenty to work with anyway. Lots to start with and it can grow as you need it to, which is very good. Happy to help off list if I can depending on the queries, but no problems at all. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Apple** On 17/09/2012, at 9:21 PM, Chris Burton <c...@it.net.au> wrote: > Hi Daniel > > Thanks very much for all the info you sent me, I will have a good look at > them all and think about what and how I need to proceed. > > In regard to domain rego and hosting, are there any issues with transferring > from one company to another? For example, are there costs associated with > transfer? Your web hosting sounds very reasonable and comprehensive. > > I have heard a number of people speak in glowing terms of Wordpress and also > seen some photography sites that use it. I would need a site that > incorporates images, blog, and an order and payment system. > > Can I contact you off list if necessary Daniel? > > Many thanks > > Chris > > > > On 15/09/2012, at 12:19 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: > >> Hi Chris >> >> Web In a Box's info can be found here :- >> <http://webinabox.com.au> >> >> I also do web hosting and domain Registration as well through my subsidiary >> business (HostingServicesWA), My domains are $45 for 2 years. >> You can see all the info here, for Domain Registration and Hosting:- >> <http://www.hostingserviceswa.com.au/> >> >> Wordpress has some good themes for Photography sites. Also Sandvox or >> RapidWeaver are both quite good as well. (Wordpress is free). You can even >> still do it in iWeb (though fairly limited to an extent now), but would be >> enough to get your started at least. All these can upload to most hosting >> services without a problem. >> >> Hope either of those help. >> >> Kind regards >> Daniel >> --- >> Daniel Kerr >> MacWizardry >> >> Phone: 0414 795 960 >> Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> >> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> >> >> >> **For everything Apple** >> >> On 14/09/2012, at 12:46 PM, Chris Burton <c...@it.net.au> wrote: >> >>> Hi Muggers >>> >>> I recall someone recently (in the last few weeks I think) sent a post >>> regarding hosting and suggested Web in a Box. I cant find the email >>> anywhere so am wondering if you can help? >>> >>> I had to ask Westnet (where it presently resides) if my domain name was >>> still current and they said yes as it was on 'Auto Update' for payment >>> every 2 years prior to expiry at $88. I think web in a box was quite a bit >>> less for memory, and the person who posted I think gave them a good rap? >>> >>> I am beginning the process of having a web site for my photography and >>> wouldnt know where to start as there seems so many possibilities. I have >>> seen many very good photography sites online that have given me ideas but I >>> need some direction on this if anyone can help? Any good links or other >>> info I can check out locally? >>> >>> Best regards to all >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> >>> Christopher L.K. Burton >>> Director >>> Western Whale Research >>> PO Box 1076 >>> Dunsborough WA 6281 >>> Mobile: 0419 199 120 >>> Email: c...@it.net.au >>> >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>> URL: >>> http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20120914/43c63dba/attachment.htm >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
