How to forward one domain to another using GoDaddy (Ask a Web Coach Wednesday)

I recently received this question via email:

“I bought two domain names, and I want both of them to point to the same place (I want to use one of them, and have anyone who visits the second one automatically go to the first one). How do I do this?”

Turns out, I needed [...]

How to point your GoDaddy-registered domain to your DreamHost account (Ask a Web Coach Wednesday)

So you’ve got a shiny new domain name registered at GoDaddy (or maybe you’ve had it languishing there for awhile… I won’t tell, I promise!).

Now you want me to install WordPress at your shiny new DreamHost account.

How do you get GoDaddy to play nice with DreamHost?

There’s just one little-bitty change you [...]

Why it's OK to get naked on the internet

Here’s one from the mailbag:

What’s the deal with the “www” in a web address? Sometimes I see a link that looks like http://www.wendycholbi.com/ and other times I see links that look like http://wendycholbi.com/. What’s the difference? Are these always the same thing? Why do some sites include it and some leave it out? [...]

Small-Business Tree seasons of growth and change

Here’s a quote straight from the mailbag that is so so so perfect I had to ruminate about it in public here on the blog.

I don’t know if your other clients do this – but I find myself wanting to jump in right away and build my website so I have it.  But [...]