Kickstart Beginners’ Guide to Domains and Hosting

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1. on 22 Apr 2010 at 11:19 am # rob sellen
   
   

   Thanks Martin, will take a look later and send you some feedback on it.

2. on 22 Apr 2010 at 12:06 pm # Neil Shearing
   
   

   Brilliant, Martin!

   It’s short, quality guides like yours that beginners need… not the $1,997 monster dvd courses which cause instant information overload.

   Neil.

3. on 22 Apr 2010 at 12:27 pm # donal Joyce
   
   

   Just got it, I will let you know later when I go through it, I am still trying to get my web site set up, cant get any one to help with the nuts and bolts.

4. on 22 Apr 2010 at 1:55 pm # Chris Betts
   
   

   Hi Martin,

   I have scanned through it and having been there myself fairly recently I can relate.

   My immediate reaction: Yes, you have answered the question about Domain Name and Hosting, especially for anyone who wants to use GoDaddy etc. (I’m not one). And you’ve conveyed all that very well. To be expexted!

   For me there is a gaping hole between that and FileZilla. Into that hole would go things like cpanel, phpMyAdmin, SQL creating an email account linked to the new domain and WordPress as that is, I would guess, the vehicle of choice for a newbie blog or web presence.

   Just my thoughts. Use ‘em don’t use ‘em…..

   Regards

   Chris

5. on 22 Apr 2010 at 2:12 pm # paul
   
   

   Great freebie Martin – proof of the pudding will be if I can use it to do what it says on the label. Will let you know.

   Big issue for me is merchant accounts / ways to accept payment….for someone like me with no track record of making sales other than a few personal ebay/paypal sales. A guide on what to do / what not to do to make it easy to accept payment would be good.

6. on 22 Apr 2010 at 3:16 pm # Peter
   
   

   Thank you Martin for the chance of having this guide.

   I will talk to you pesrsonally about it when I next see you at the London Lunch.

   First I’ll have to read it.

   Best wishes and kind regards,

   Peter

7. on 22 Apr 2010 at 4:41 pm # Paul Weaver
   
   

   I am a Web Designer by trade so will check this out for you Martin and give you feedback.

8. on 23 Apr 2010 at 8:03 am # Andrea Chitakis
   
   

   Great booklet and timely too as I am looking at doing something outside my webmaster-run site. Would definitely pay for something like this, especially if it went further to include easy web design – payment via the PayPal email to email system?? Thanks Martin, for Kickstart, the stories, greats suggestions/deals and especially the retactions when something doesn’t perform as expected – credibility is everything in business! I looked back and notice that it has been some five+ years since I first signed up for Kickstart – it was good then and still is – that says a lot.

9. on 23 Apr 2010 at 9:00 am # Jonathan
   
   

   Being written by an Englishman, it’s as clear as a bell to a New Zealander Martin.

   But yanks like bigger type.

   Jonathan

10. on 23 Apr 2010 at 10:19 am # Gary
    
    

    Well done Martin, I’m sure beginners will find this step-by-step guide absolutely invaluable and even those with some experience will pick up a few good tips, too, such as your advice on how or why to choose keyword focused domain names.

    Incidentely, regarding the GoDaddy payment screen, you might also want to tell your readers about how they can search Google for ‘goddady promo codes’ and insert any current codes into the box on the payment screen to get an instant discount. Might seem a bit sneaky but I can’t see godaddy minding, can you?

    Regards
    Gary

11. on 24 Apr 2010 at 10:54 am # Harvey Segal
    
    

    A stunning guide – from the Master.

    Harvey

12. on 24 Apr 2010 at 12:44 pm # Richard Hale
    
    

    I’ve had friends and family clamoring lately for information on how to set up their own website, and of course they come to me with these requests. Well, your new guide cannot be more timely. And having just perused it, I find it exactly what these folks are asking me for. Now perhaps you could extend it further with additional topics, as some of the folks above have mentioned.

    Great job, Martin.

13. on 24 Apr 2010 at 1:19 pm # Jo Dodds
    
    

    Hi Martin

    This is great. Really clear and the layout is good.

    I agree with some of the others on here that something about setting up payment systems and shopping carts would be useful. I spoke to several newbies at a recent internet seminar and that was something that they were really confused about.

    See you next week.

14. on 25 Apr 2010 at 9:19 am # Jan
    
    

    Good clear guide for setting up the first domain.

    One suggestion: It would be useful to have instructions on adding the first add on domain as that can be quite confusing to beginners.

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