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Hello, just opened an account with Blue Host, installing WordPress, next Symbiostock, i have been wanting to join for ages, hope i can get things set up with ease, looking forward to becoming a Symbiostocker soon.
Hi Susan and Welcome to Symbiostock.
There are plenty of us here that can help out if you get stuck.
http://kerioakimaging.com - trying to reopen
http://nail-art-at.kerioak.com - Art and Nail ArtSusan, if I could ask a favor? Would you be willing to chime into this thread and comment on your progress? Like “just installed the theme but had this question” or “I’m looking through the dragonfly themes and I found it easy to use”
Many of us have been doing this for a while and the perspective of a brand new user would be incredibly useful. Sort of “Susan’s New Site Thread”
Would you be willing to do this?yes, i can tell you my progress so far, i have the Blue Host personal account and i unticked all the other boxes. I opted for the ‘personal’ account rather than business account because the business account asked for a VAT number, and i have no clue about that. Total cost is $170.64 for 36 months.
As for installing WordPress, i followed the Blue Host YouTube videos 1 – 7 and i am stuck already! will let you knowHere is a secret for people like me who don’t know anything. Call Bluehost and own your ignorance. They will do a lot of this for you. Ask lots of dumb questions and make the techs feel really smart. That is how I got through my first install. I called Bluehost 6 times, Godaddy 3 times and Paypal twice. Seems silly but they don’t know me, they were very nice and super helpful, and I got my site up without spending hours of frustration. By the way, I learned a lot and now I can do this all myself. It really isn’t hard but it is until you understand how things work.
so i emailed Blue Host and asked them please install WordPress for me and they did 🙂 step one complete!
@chromaco wrote:
Here is a secret for people like me who don’t know anything. Call Bluehost and own your ignorance. They will do a lot of this for you. Ask lots of dumb questions and make the techs feel really smart. That is how I got through my first install. I called Bluehost 6 times, Godaddy 3 times and Paypal twice. Seems silly but they don’t know me, they were very nice and super helpful, and I got my site up without spending hours of frustration. By the way, I learned a lot and now I can do this all myself. It really isn’t hard but it is until you understand how things work.
second that!
I’ve really been amazed at the quality of tech support these companies have — I’ve mostly used 1and1, but also bluehost & justhost. also the 24 availability helps fix those 2 am problems
Followed the Tutorial: Getting Started by Christine. Symbiostock installed and activated , then Symbiostock Dragonfly installed and activated, also activated 2 plugins and so far its a breeze. Great Tutorial, thanks to Christine.
You are welcome Susan, pleased you are finding them useful. If you find anything in the tutorials that seems wrong or unclear please feel free to say and I will update them so they are more helpful.
http://kerioakimaging.com - trying to reopen
http://nail-art-at.kerioak.com - Art and Nail ArtWelcome to Symbiostock, Susan.
…and so far its a breeze.
That’s great!
good morning from the UK!
me and Wendy (we are both starting out) would like to ask about these 2 plugins:
This theme recommends the following plugins: SYMBIOSTOCK – Image Sitemap and SYMBIOSTOCK -Premium Upgrade.
they werent available yesterday but today they are, can i customise my site without these plugins for now?Hi Susan
Yes, you can start your site without either of those plug-ins.
It is recommended that you use WordPress SEO by Yoast and set up a Google Webmaster Tools account and submit the site maps it generates to Google to help with your SEO. Symbiostock is built to work with the Yoast SEO
The Symbiostock Site Map fills a gap that is left out by Yoast SEO and is specific to Symbiostock so it is recommended even though it works without it.
The Premium/Professional Plug-in has extra features such as Collections, Twitter integration, ability to create different licences, and batch editing.
The Symbostock.com site was down for some planned work yesterday but is now back.
http://kerioakimaging.com - trying to reopen
http://nail-art-at.kerioak.com - Art and Nail Arthiya
the next part, Appearance: Initial Menu Setup
i didnt get anywhere with it, it seemed like i had a different web page to the tutorial one
i didnt know what the header was or where the navigation bar was
……. or the long list of links, i made a page called cart but couldnt see it anywhere, gave up with the contact form i dont know where it is, never found the plus sign, named a menu ‘above header’ but i dont know what it means 🙂 i’ll try some more tomorrow, i would be grateful for any picture tutorials 😉 or anything!
night allGood morning,
Could you post a link to your site xo we can see what you mean?You do not need to make a page called cart it should already be there and called
Cutomer licence and download areaDoes this help?
http://kerioakimaging.com - trying to reopen
http://nail-art-at.kerioak.com - Art and Nail ArtThank You Christine, but i do believe i am beyond help now, if you want to have a laugh at my pathetic attempt so far:
http://www.4surephoto.com/
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