Yes Tiffany, the one provided is a generic hostgator nameserver…

If you can keep an eye on things here, that will help because you represent a lot of people that are not into the techie side of things. Your questions are always good

Thanks Mike for the feedback and kind words.

It’s just going to get better as I go…

Please, you and everyone else, if you need things dummied down more, just say so.

At times people in the “know” expect others to “just know” stuff and that attitude is a bit discouraging for the person asking. I don’t want to make anyone feel that way.

About installing a blog on a website you already have, it’s done like in the video. So you want your blog to sit in a folder called “blog” on your site? Just type in blog like in the video or name it whatever you want… mikesblog, etc…

If you already have a hosting account, but no website up yet, just your domain sitting there, leave the directory text box empty and fantastico will install wordpress in what’s called your root folder. You root folder contains the documents people see when they go to your main domain name.

For example if you go to this site’s main address which is http://www.idiotproofblogging.com you will see my video page which is an HTML document. The blog is not in that directory, it’s in http://www.idiotproofblogging.com/blog/

When talking about servers and hosting you’ll see the word “directory” a lot. Directory is just a fancy word for a “folder” on your server.

Here is what a bunch of folders I mean directories look like on your server

If this does not answer your question, email me, and I’ll walk you through whatever it is you want to do.

Thanks Deb… Keep an eye on new stuff here and let me know how I’m doing please

I do have one question related to host gator… I have a couple different domains registered, and i want to set up the email accounts, and have them all forwarded to my main email account. But i think i did something wrong in the set up, because i have several different variations of my domains listed as email addresses, and i don’t think any of them even work or point to real mail somehow.. i know i did something weird i am sure, and have no idea how to fix it! If anybody has any ideas on fixing this, i’d really appreciate it!
regards,
Cori

Cori,

When you initially set up your blog you were asked to fill in an email address for your blog (I think about half-way down the setup page) where you could fill in “admin”/”owner”/”your name” or “anything else” you’d remember @ “yoursite.com

When you’ve found that address go back to cpanel main page, click on “mail” (top left-hand corner). You’ll then get a list of options, go half-way down to “Forwarders” & click on that.

You’ll come to a screen where you type in whatever you chose as your blog email address. There are some red arrows pointing to a box and this is where you type in where you want your blog email forwarded to. Click on “Forward” (or whatever that button says ??) Then you’ll get a message confirming your forwarding details. As Craig says, it’s best to forward all blogs’ email to one central address.

Hope this is understandable and what you were asking about – if you need any further help just leave a reply.

John R.