Domain Registration and Hosting Setup

This portion of the workshop will focus on the steps necessary to select a domain name, register it, sign up for website hosting and do the basic preparation of the domain for your eCommerce website.

There are many domain registrars and website hosting services out there to choose from. I have selected GoDaddy.com for this workshop because of their simple interface for domain registration as well as hosting services that support PHP and MySQL (The platform that the eCommerce template we will be using is based on).

Once the following steps are completed, your domain will be prepared for you to load your eCommerce template onto.

Step 1

Using your web browser (ie: FireFox or Internet Explorer), navigate to http://www.godaddy.com.



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