Hello friends

The Masterclass started with Module One which is about Creating an Online Presence by means of a blog or web blog.

Module 1  Creating an Online Presence

What is a domain name? Basically it is the name or address of the website.  Examples of domain names are ebay.com, google.com .  When you type them on your browser you are taken to their website.

John showed us how to use 1&1 site to find a domain name. He wants us to to find a domain name that relates to who we are – by choosing our names as the domain name and ending in dot com. I have decided to name my site nonasangalang.com and it is available.

John suggested that if someone has beat you in using your name, make some small changes like putting the word blog.com, or put a hyphen in your name then make it as your domain name. Next he  showed us how to choose a hosting account which will host our domain.  This is something which can not be avoided.  He recommended D9 Hosting because the owners are his former students and the company was created basically to cater for the needs of John’s students.  The advantage of hosting with D9 is that they already know specifically the students’ requirements as they have been hosting John’s students domains since 2005.  Their hosting charges are also very competitive compared with the other hosting companies. In my case, since I have an existing account with D9, all I did was to place my new domain as an add on.

We learned to login to our Cpanel, set up our email address relating to the domain name we created and added that email account to our email client, the  software we are using to manage our emails,  in my case MS Outlook.

So that’s it folks!  That’s what we learned in Week 1.

Cheers

Nona