Get Online Easy For Men’s Sheds

Get online easy, it has only become clear to me that buying a domain name and joining a web host company to get a free WordPress blog of website, can be very challenging for some people. It does not matter whether you are building a site for Men’s Sheds or just for your own personal use. The only difference is that personal use, you need to buy a online web hosting package and Men’s Sheds in Australia can get a free package with Web Host Australia.  If you are building a sit for your self contact me and I will be happy to talk or e-mail you some advice for free, but with unlike non profits I do charge a very low rate for private installs.

Any way back to Men’s Sheds and get online easy and getting a domain + a web hosting package. It never dawned on me that doing those things could feel very threatening and stressful. I helped a friend of mine out on the weekend, and he was very nervous about buying a domain and a web hosting package, even with me there and showing him what to do. For Men’s Sheds I do the lot for them, and all they need to do is learn how to use the administration back office of the site to build posts and pages.

Buying A Domain Name

Buying a domain name can be a bit confusing, especially if you never have done it. I only use Go daddy for my purchases. Why because I believe they are owned by Google and they are very easy to use a thing called name servers settings. This is how you can point your domain at Web Host Australia. I can do this for you, I can remember how nervous I was when I brought my first domain name. Basically I would need your account number and password to be able to go in and change the settings. After this we don’t ever need to go back in there again and makes it another get online easy.

I better back step here a bit, buying a domain name can be a bit tricky, and these applies to buying any domain name, try to buy a dot com over buying  dot org or a dot com dot au, why simple answer, in the long term I believe along with a lot more other webmasters that the dot com will bring you more traffic. This is an age old debate on just this topic. Another thing is buy a dot com in  all lower case and seperate the words. Example is shoulder-to shoulder-mens- sheddotcom I am not using the real dot because this would cause me to get a broken link. Here is how my local mens shed main domain page looks and yes it is a active link  mens-shed-elermore-vale.com see how the words are separated and it has a dot com on the end. Any way if you want me to buy and you just give the money back, that is okay.

How To Get Free Online Web Hosting.

Men’s Sheds can get free online web hosting in Australia which it make it easy to get online easy with Web Host Australia, you just have to click on the link and fill in the details, they do ask for a credit card, but they never charge you a single cent. The link I have left here will take you directly to their sign up page. I use their package that is located in America, only because it offers extra online gigabytes. Installing other software like photo galleries or a forum can take up a bit of space. There many options for different software in a thing called CPanel’s, which a kind of control panel. Again if you want my setting all this up, happy to help any of the Men’s Sheds out.

So that is the basics about men’s shed and how to get online easy. There is a lot more to it, if you go to YouTube and do a search for WordPress tutorials, there is heaps about WordPress online. To make it easier to get online easy here are a few YouTube presentations for you to watch.

This one talks about different companies that they recommend, I recommend HostGator for non profit companies, not men’s sheds, why pay when you can get the support fro free.

This one is about creating pages on WordPress, very useful, the main point is going to YouTube and check out all the WordPress Videos

Here is how easy it is to get online easy, and add a new template for your WordPress Site, this lady also talks about plugin’s, some of these I use.

There are over 4,000 topics on WordPress, so have fun and use YouTube.

Okay to finish off here is my big secret on how to make great posts for mens sheds! Yoast has built a free SEO tool, for those that can download new plugins for their WordPress, I actually was that impressed I gave Yoast a donation. It is so good to use, helps to make award-winning posts.

Okay that’s it, if you need a hand send me a e-mail, found on my Contact Me page or drop me a comment.

Republished on Elermore Vale Men’s Shed site, I am the author and owner of this material and I give them full permission to have this material posted on their site.

Bounties of Nature

Adding a shopping cart for non profits is easy to do with Volusion, unfortunately they will charge you some set-up costs. The software package is very easy to build and and maintain. You will need to set up a few other things like anti fraud and online banking. You will need a non profit account for merchant banking established.  They have a number of templates to choose fro for free and they are an established shopping cart supplier in Australia.

Drop me a line if you want more information on setting up your non profit company in Australia.

Bounties of Nature

As the title says, WordPress for non profits charities in Australia. Most companies worry about not having easy access to a website or blog that they have spent good money on and they can’t get access to it because the webmaster is not available to give them time to set up changes for them.

In just a short space of time I can set up a WordPress blog site for any non profit charity and show them how easy it is to build pages and posts with it. Don’t bother to contact me if you have absolutely no time to learn just the simple basics for being able to write those all important news articles or reports that you want on the Internet.

The cost, it just a little bit of your time to learn how to look after your own blog site. I wont charge any non profit charity a single cent to set up and then be in the background if you need help. The only exception to my rule is multi purpose centres in Australia, they are not non profit by they keep shoveling their money back into community projects, so I will make an exception for any branches that approach me.

Bounties of Nature

How to get your charity business noticed on the Internet is not a simple thing to do. If I had to tell somebody the one most important thing to get your non profit organisation noticed, then my answer would be content. The surfers on the Internet crave information and the more your website or blog site has, then the more valuable your site will be.

Over deliver the information and it will reward you. Put in a good description and make sure you have those all important keywords that relate to your charity business. I have seen far to many charities that have just the basic content and they could have given lots more information. The idea that people will know what you are all about is very bad. You need to put yourself in their shoes and see that somebody that has never heard of you and they will not have the basic information that you all ready have.

Charity companies can spend good money on setting up a site and because they are on a tight budget they all to often fail to put enough content into their website. So if you want to get noticed, tell people as much as you can about your Non Profit Charity. Seek out those valuable keywords and make sure your information is easy to find.

I have added links to help you register your business and other software down the right side of this blog site. You can also see more on this topic in my December blog posting.

Bounties of Nature

We are willing to help any Not For Profit Charity for free, visit our Non Profit Charities page for all the full details. Why do we do this, the answer is simple, giving back to our community is important to us and no we don’t ask for any money in doing it.

We will accept a donation to help us with our yearly costs, but don’t go out of our way to look for any financial support. Most things in Australia can be done at no cost. You still need to buy your own domain name and we recommend you pay for a domain 5 years in advance and keep it that way. This helps Google see you are fair dinkum about having a business online.  We recommend Godaddy as a domain provider and it will probably cost you about $50.00 Australian for 5 years. Sometimes you can get a special offer and get it for a bit less.

All other needs for your domain are cost free, we don’t try to get you to buy expensive software to build web pages of do ftp file transfer, and we are happy to help you learn how to do all of this as well.

So if you are a Non Profit Charity, go to our contact us page and send us an e-mail and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Bounties of Nature