Good morning!
I can understand why people pay someone else to build their website, it can be very confusing to "newbies" like me!
When I bought my hosting they gave me a choice between Windows and Linux and I thought that meant the type of operating system I have. I have Windows, so that's what I picked.
I even went with
GoDaddy over my first choice,
HostGator, because they had Windows and
HostGator didn't.
Come to find out, it's the host's
servers they give you a choice on, not your computer's software. I'm sure I'm not the only one who didn't know that.
Anyways, I wanted to use
WordPress on my site and you can't with
GoDaddy if you pick Windows. Thankfully, it wasn't
too much trouble to switch to their Linux server, which has a
WordPress plug-in, it just took an awful long time to do it.
GoDaddy is VERY slow once you log in to your account, it takes about 30 minutes to load a page! Of course I do have dial-up, which is slow anyways, but 30 minutes is ridiculous! Thankfully, I only paid for two months of hosting so I can switch to
HostGator, if
GoDaddy doesn't work out.
I did get
WordPress installed, which was very easy, and now I can actually start
building my site. With
WordPress you can work from your site itself, not your hosting account, so maybe it will go a little quicker.
Well, that's my progress so far and I'm going to try to work on it some today. Stay tuned for further updates!
And all you techie people out there, go ahead and laugh. I am! :)
Thank you
Penny Raine for your help. :)