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Case Study DFOSCOM - Part 2 - Wordpress to Website Tutorial

01.14.2008 by Kenneth in Case Study

I wanted to followup on my case study of changing a wordpress blog into the look and fill of a regular website.  For this post I will use the example of my DFOS.com website.  For those who have not read the original post new experiment case study dfoscom, here is a summary.  My experiment was to see if I could change a wordpress blog to a regular website.  My main reasoning for this was to be able to:

1. Not re-engineer a .net website

2. I wanted a easy RSS implementation

3. I wanted a easy way to add content

4. I wanted to be able to put up a fully functional site in 2 to 3 hours.

Point 4 was/is the most important point.  I grew tired of writing .net sites that took me a week or more to design, write and promote.  With the completion of this experiment I am now able to implement a site in one day with original content and promote/market the site the next day.  Time is money and the faster you are able to put content up and get it accepted into the search engines the faster you will get a ROI.

Setting up the website:

I don’t want to put all the aspects of creating this kind of website in this one post.  I feel that it would take up too much time and I will lose you in the transition.  So, I will split it up into small chunks  starting with the easiest part, uploading wordpress.

I know that most of you will probably know how to do this.  But for those few that don’t I wanted to give you a step by step guide in uploading and setting up your original wordpress implementation.  To complete this guide you will need a ftp tool, and the wordpress code.  You can download the wordpress code from wordpress.org and in order to ftp I use smartftp.  It is free and very easy to use.  Download and install on your system. 

 

Open it up and enter you site domain name and login/password at the top and hit the arrow key to log into your websites ftp account.  Next go to your wordpress code base that should be located on your local drive and drag and drop it into your root directory.  On most Linux servers this will be public_html.  Next is the waiting game for all the code to upload.  If you are lucky the people that you host your website with will have it downloaded and available in your control panel.

When everything is finished and uploaded, enter http://(yourdomain)/wp-admin.  On initial downloads your database config file will need to be setup.  Wordpress will walk you through this process with entering in the name of your database, your user name, password and localhost (where your database is located).  Most databases will be hosted with the same server as your domain.  In this case the location of the database will be the localhost.  If the database is hosted on another database the hosting company will provide to you the path to the database.  Once you have this information enter is where localhost is located.  Also, setup the mail system for your wordpress site.  Make sure the email address that you enter is correct because your passwords will be email to that address.

If everything checked out wordpress will return a message stating that everything is complete and your wordpress blog is ready.  It has not be transformed to a website yet so, don’t get worried.  That is enough for today.  Just getting to this step is a real task for most.  Don’t hesitate to asked questions if you get stuck.

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