Starting Up - rephrased

[Krakatoa]

In a previous post, I did not do a good job of accurately relating my situation, so let me try again.....

I currently have a site www.coachoftheairwaves.com hosted at GoDaddy. I have redirected my nameservers to BH, and am awaiting the transfer over to BH to be finalized. UPDATE: Just noticed it looks like the transfer has taken place as all the images and so on from the old site are gone...which is fine....but why is there a difference now between www.coachoftheairwaves.com and what BH has set me up as - http://coachoftheairwaves.com??? What happened to the www part of the URL???

I will not be using any part of the current site (design or content), opting instead to go with a 100% WP-based blogsite. I will not be uploading any of the files associated with the old site....just going to start fresh, building from the ground up with WP. (or do I at least need to upload the old index.html file in order to have a starting point???)

I used Fantastico to install WP here at BH. I also uploaded the WP template I want to use. With all the plug-ins available, running a WP-based site will be perfect for our needs.

It is at this point that I become lost......

When my transfer is finalized, where do I go to start re-creating my site? What do I click on? Did Fantastico do all the dirty-work of installing WP so I can use it right away? The blurb for BlueHost found at WP.org seems to indicate that the upload and installation of everything needed to begin working with WP is done for me......is that accurate?

Can someone please help me understand, once my transfer is done, exactly what to do in this situation? Where to go? What do I click on? Where do I find the key that will simply let me begin to re-build this site using WP? I thought the Control Panel would be the place to start, but apparently not with WP.

Anyone willing to help out, I appreciate it. Obviously I'm at the base of the learning curve here, but I will need to get the re-designed WP-based site up and running ASAP.....once I can get into WP to begin building the index.html page, I'll be fine....it's just not knowing HOW to get to that point that's killing me......and unfortunately I won't fully understand the verbiage unless it's base level......I'm so ashamed!!!:D

THANK YOU!!!

[dkinzer]

Can someone please help me understand, once my transfer is done, exactly what to do in this situation?

Unless you don't care that your site is going to be "off the air" for an indefinite time, it seems to me that you've put the cart before the horse. What you should have done, in my opinion, was to leave your old site in place and set up a new site using a new domain name, e.g. newcoachoftheairwaves.com or coachoftheairwaves.net. Then, you could proceed along the learning curve at a more relaxed pace.

I realize that this doesn't answer your pressing question (I'd suggest going to the WordPress site/forum for help) but it may be helpful to others so they won't get into the predicament where you now find yourself.

[Krakatoa]

I thought of doing that, but didn't want to change the domain name/URL at all....could've done a simple redirect, but......it is okay if we're down for a few days because we're in pre-launch mode anyway......hope to get at least a MAIN PAGE up in the next day.......the URL http://coachoftheairwaves.com DOES, interestingly enough, show a blog-like template......now I just need to figure out how to enter that realm as the Administrator, and start reworking it.......I think........

still wondering why www was dropped from the URL.......????

[Basil]

First off, http://www.coachoftheairwaves.com and http://coachoftheairwaves.com go to the same place.

If you recently started the process of transferring then you have to wait for your ISP to cache the domain in order for you to access it.

www is deprecated and is considered a false subdomain. It shouldn't be there in the first place, which is why the two variations are taking different amounts of time to register. Subdomains have to propagate like domains, and it thinks the www is a subdomain.

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Your website shows the default wordpress template, if you don't know how it got there I suggest you do a bit of reading on the subject.
I assume you filled out SOMETHING for the administrator name and password when you used fantastico to install it.

http://coachoftheairwaves.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=%2Fwp%2Fwp-admin%2Fadmin.php

[Krakatoa]

Basil, thanks...that last link is all I needed to be able to now go in and do what I need to do.

'Preciate it!!!