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I have seen countless suggestions that authors should have a website. I always wanted to do it, but somehow I had an idea in my mind that I would need to pay someone enormous amounts of money to do that. (My definition of enormous is anything outside of my budget. )
Awhile ago, I watched some videos and upgraded my blog (my closest thing to an author website). I did it, but there was much hair-pulling and screaming involved. Somewhere in the process I thought I had lost my blog entirely (five years with of posts). Needless to say this is not something I would recommend to someone who isn't comfortable with computers or the internet.
But today, my husband asked me if I would help him make a website for his business. (He made this request remembering my enthusiasm after watching the afore mentioned videos...apparently he forgot the hair pulling since he wasn't home for that part.) I sighed and told him I would try.
I started to do it with the service that I use and he said, "Can you do it with GoDaddy? That's where my domain name is registered."
Now I was really worried...uncharted territory! Yikes.
But you know what? GoDaddy is created for novices like me, I swear. So far creating my husband's website is a breeze. If I tried to add an establish blog there might be some screaming involved again, but fortunately, I'm not going to do that so I can't say.
The point is...if you want to make an author website, but didn't know how, GoDaddy.com is a really good place to start. I'm debating whether or not I should switch...but no. I still haven't fully recovered from the last time!
Awhile ago, I watched some videos and upgraded my blog (my closest thing to an author website). I did it, but there was much hair-pulling and screaming involved. Somewhere in the process I thought I had lost my blog entirely (five years with of posts). Needless to say this is not something I would recommend to someone who isn't comfortable with computers or the internet.
But today, my husband asked me if I would help him make a website for his business. (He made this request remembering my enthusiasm after watching the afore mentioned videos...apparently he forgot the hair pulling since he wasn't home for that part.) I sighed and told him I would try.
I started to do it with the service that I use and he said, "Can you do it with GoDaddy? That's where my domain name is registered."
Now I was really worried...uncharted territory! Yikes.
But you know what? GoDaddy is created for novices like me, I swear. So far creating my husband's website is a breeze. If I tried to add an establish blog there might be some screaming involved again, but fortunately, I'm not going to do that so I can't say.
The point is...if you want to make an author website, but didn't know how, GoDaddy.com is a really good place to start. I'm debating whether or not I should switch...but no. I still haven't fully recovered from the last time!
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