I told you guys earlier in the pre show banter that there is a recipe to building a website. All right, this recipe is very short. Very simple. There's only three ingredients needed to make a website, right. And the three things that make up a website. Two of them, you probably already have. Okay, so domain hosting and wordpress, that's it. That's all you need to get online. It's a very simple recipe, Okay? And the best news about it is because a lot of people hear that and they think, oh, domains and hosting. Oh, my gosh, I don't know anything about that. I don't know anything about WordPress software, anything like that. That's okay, because there are ways around the technical babble. Okay? I don't know a whole lot of technical things about building websites from the back end up. I know the easy way to do it. And that's what I'm gonna be teaching you guys. All right, so let's talk about finding a good domain name. Chances are you've probably already got a domain name, but if you don'...

t let's talk about how we find a good one. Unfortunately, in today's day and age, you've got to be creative with domain names. Um, every dot com on the planet seems to be taken these days, but don't get stuck in a dot com world. Okay, that's my number one tip that I could give you about Domains don't get stuck in a dot com world because a lot of people think, Oh, I can't get something dot com. I'm I'm out of it like I can't do anything. It's not true. There are a ton of places that use creative domain names. The one that comes to mind is the IPhone app camera. Plus, their website is See a mpl dot us cam plus right. Um, I do some things online podcast. And so I couldn't get Seeley dot com right, because somebody owns that. And they wanted, like, 10 grand for it. I'm not paying that. So I use Seeley dot tv. Well, that's where all my videos were going, so it sounds kind of cool anyway, because it's like my own TV station rights. You gotta get creative. In order to get creative, you need to use a service, and I'm gonna show you a service called domain er in just a minute that allows you to really, really get creative with your domain search or it's a great tool. And then finally, when you find the domain that you want, I want you to register that through a domain registrar like hover dot com or go daddy dot com or somebody like that. Okay, it doesn't matter where you register from. These were just the two that I happen to use myself. I use hover dot com a lot more now than I do go down. And I do that for one reason and one reason only. If you've ever tried to check out from Go Daddy's website. It is probably the most painful process I've ever seen in my entire life. You go through like, nine screens before you actually get to add something to the cart, right? And then, finally, when you actually added to the car, you have to go through nine more screens to check out Um, however, it's like I want this. I buy it. It's done. So, uh, go Daddy's great service, though I use them for a lot of stuff. It's just there. Check out process a little painful. All right, so we're gonna go into a demo of domain are now all right. But domain er is nothing more than a tool. And you get to it through the website. I'm gonna go over there. I know it's up here. Never give. So I'm gonna go to the domain or website. It's a d o m ai dot in our see how they got creative with theirs. They probably couldn't get domain or dot com. So they chose this domain. Er, basically allows me to come in and search for a term. So if I wanted WP for photo, I'll just use that all week. Probably it goes through and it searches and it tells me here what's available If you see a Green Square next to the domain name, that domain name is available if you don't see a green square. If she a little white square, that means no, sorry, your look. The good news is if WP four photog dot com is taken, which it's not. But if it was, I could see if dot Net are dot org's or look at this, they get really creative. They do WP four foa dot to slash g right or, you know, they have a whole different kinds of combinations. Like, for instance, when I look at my name, it's gonna go through and tell me Justin, silly dot com is taken. Uh, I own it. Just silly dot Nets available dot organ. I'm sure everybody around the world are going to register those now because they want me to pay the money. Uh, but check this one out. This one's kind of cool, like Justin s dot e. And then I could do a directory slash l e y if I wanted to. I mean, there's just it's a ways of kind of, you know, simplifying the domain, but at same time, getting creative. So I use this all the time, especially for clients. People who come to me, they're like, I need a website. That's great. Okay. Do you have a domain? Well, no. And you know, let's say it's like Smith construction. Well, good luck getting Smith Construction or smith dot com. Right? So you have there, like, coming here and play around with this. Um, when you're dealing with clients, though, it's going to be very difficult to convince them to use one of these funky domains because they are stuck in a dot com world. Most regular folks are stuck in the dot com world. You have to explain to them that most of the dot coms were taken. We had a tech bubble a few years ago. That pretty much took away all of the dot coms. And if they are available, they cost you a lot of money. Question. No. No. Okay. Um, so getting creative is something you're gonna have to do. Um, new domains that I do. I do. I'm here all the time, Okay? All the time. So once you find a domain that you want, let's say I want to register dot net. Okay, I click on it and it says, Okay, it's available. Do you want to buy it Now? Chances are when I click, buy it. Now it's gonna take me over to go daddy dot com. All right, now, I believe because when I click it, I see a bunch of information pop up down there in the like the status area of the Web browser. So what? I believe how they're making money is through, like, affiliate links or something. I believe that's their model. Um, otherwise, this service. It was just a really great service that they're offering for free. I doubt it. But when you when you click on that, it takes you to the by screen. And so this will take me. I guarantee it takes me to go, Daddy. Yes, it does. And it tells me it's available. You see Ellis like extra stuff, and it was really quick, so you couldn't see it down there. But that's how they're making money so you can go here and go. Daddy does it to go down. He does all that stuff to They will tell you what's available. Um, now there is some school of thought that if you do a search for a domain on Go Daddy that it's registered somewhere and that been, You know, people find popular domains that have been searched for, and then they go and buy them up. I don't know if that's necessarily true. It may be, I don't know. So, you know, I try to do my domain searches elsewhere just to avoid the, you know, urban myth. In case it's true. Once you buy your domain, it's registered, you own it. Okay, You will have to pay, you know, 90 year, 10 99 year, depending on the domain, it's gonna cost you a little bit more money dot TV domains cost anywhere from 17 to $30. Um, there are different ones. You know, the DOT CEO. That's the new top level domain. It's like dot com minus one letter. I do own Seeley dot ceo, so I was able to get that when it first came out. They are on sale right now. They're usually, you know, about 30 bucks. I think so. Right now, it's like 18 bucks to get one of those. So if you can get in on a dot CEO domain right now, that's a good time to get in on it if you need to. OK, but once you buy it a chore, you just make sure it doesn't lapse. Okay, If you want to go ahead and Red strip for a few years that way, don't worry about it. Go ahead. If you don't register it for a few years, you know you registered for one year set yourself a reminder in your calendar when it's gonna expire. Chances are good at it. Will spam you to death when your domains about to expire? Like seriously, like five emails a day, they may actually even call you. They called me a couple weeks ago, Toe. Let me know that my domain was about to expire. And so which I appreciate it because I had messed up my Google APS account and I couldn't get email. And so I wasn't getting the reminders, So it was a good thing they called me, But make sure you do that, and then once you have you're hosting in place are Excuse me, your domain registered. It's time to go find the right host company.

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"Educating the World One Pixel at a Time" - Justin Seeley is an experienced software trainer, graphic designer, and entrepreneur with his finger on the pulse of the social web. He is the creator and host of the Photoshop Quicktips Podcast, a

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a Creativelive Student

I watched all three days of the course. I am a photographer. The course was titled WordPress for Photographers. Only about 5% of the course was tailored to photographers. Most of the content and discussion was for pro website consultants and bloggers. That aside, Mr. Seeley is so well versed in what he knows well. Imagine sitting in front of the camera for 3 straight days remaining articulate and very professional! The class was really presented for bloggers, not photographers. An example of this is on day 3 where the presenter, after talking about photographers' concerns for an hour or two, said he wanted to transition out of photography into blogging. The class seemed short on the type of content that photographers need. It would have served photographers better if the students present in the studio were all photographers. Discussions on watermarking, photo file size and image theft/copyright infringement showed that Mr. Seeley's background in the needs of photographers is lacking, while his expertise in graphics and web design are VERY impressive. Too much of the class time was devoted to answering narrowly focused tech support questions from people other than photographers. It was a wonderful class for the audience that hijacked it, but it should have been titled and described differently if it was intended for web-blog designers. I really liked the energy, humor, and expertise of Mr. Seeley but the class was too-often off-mission. On day 1, it would have been very productive to show a photographer's WP website that was esthetically beautiful and had all the bells and whistles photographers are looking for. Then explain how you get from nothing to the final website using WordPress. That would have met the needs of pro photographers!

Shannon

Justin is an excellent presenter. He's easy to listen to and it's obvious he knows his stuff. As a presenter/trainer, I really appreciated his ability to stick with his outline while he fielded questions, both off and on topic. It takes some balancing to do that. He was good at noting questions that were too far afield and I think he actually answered all of them by the end of the three days. I would definitely attend more classes presented by him. Thanks, Justin and CreativeLIVE.

a Creativelive Student

Amazing class! Superb presentation! Justin kept the technical geek-speak to a minimal and made the entire class easy to understand and fun! I think this class should be called Wordpress for the Non-Geek! (As others have said there was not a lot of information specific to photographers, but when it was referenced there was great examples and information provided!)

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