Tired of paying webmasters to update your site, or waiting days or weeks to get your site updated? Well you’re in luck because over the years technology has advanced to the point where you can easily update your own site, using a basic web browser. There’s no need to pay expensive, monthly fees to have your website updated, or wait for days or weeks to get your site updated by your webmaster.

I’ve recently come across an even more troubling problem. Webmasters that hold a website hostage, so you can’t get your domain or webhosts login information, effectively locking you out from the site and being at the webmaster’s mercy! Site owners have been trying to contact them for weeks and getting no answer! Another has paid thousands of dollars to have their site updated regularly and haven’t heard from the guy in weeks. I’m sorry but this makes me so upset to see clients getting screwed over so badly ,in this day and age especially.

We can migrate your site to WordPress (or create a new one if you don’t have a site), a simple, free software package offered by most web hosting companies that make updating your site a snap. Then any time you want you just login to your admin area using your favorite browser and make changes to your text, upload new images, PDFs, etc and click a button to publish. You’re site is instantly updated. No more editing HTML files and ftp’ing them to the web server, or getting a webmaster to do that.

With WordPress you can also save design costs (which are usually the biggest costs of a website design) because they have a variety of nice templates to choose from. Some can even be purchased for upwards of $50 depending on whether you can find a free template you like or have specific needs.

Please contact me to get started.

Update #2 – the GoDaddy administrator email addresses were wrong since they had been set up years ago. NameCheap pulls the email address from there when sending approval emails. So the approval emails were going to old email that I couldn’t access, meaning the whole thing has to be done again!

Update: I just transferred my 6 domains to Namecheap.com. There’s a great blog post where you can save money with a coupon code and they will even donate $1 per domain to an Elephant charity. You’ll also need the authorization code for each domain from GoDaddy, as well as unlock each domain using GoDaddy’s Account Manager.

I’ve removed GoDaddy from my list of suggested domain registrars and web hosts. This is because Bob Parsons has decided to shoot and kill elephants for the good of humanity. If you agree come join this Facebook page. If you don’t agree with this, that is fine.

I am suggesting you use or transfer your web hosting to HostGator. HostGator will transfer your files usually free of charge or for a nominal fee. For domains you have options such as Domain.ca (for canadians), register.com, etc. There are lots (you can google ‘domain names’ for example).

When the domain is registered you have to point it at the nameservers of your webhost. If you use the same host then you don’t have to do this (as it is handled by the web host).

iMedia Ventures has relocated to beautiful Sackville, New Brunswick. We create inexpensive, ‘easy to edit yourself’ websites so you don’t have to hire a webmaster to make costly ongoing changes.

We can also get you more traffic by helping you get on the first pages of Google searches using little known techniques. Works great especially for local businesses. We can show you how to get more traffic, and collect leads by writing articles, newsletters and using social media like Facebook and Twitter.

Please contact us to discuss your needs.

Before you pay thousands of dollars to hire someone to design a new website for you please consider this: nowadays you can inexpensively set up your own website with one of the beautiful themes available these days thanks to WordPress software which is free. Plus you can make your own changes anytime you want because with WordPress it’s easy to edit your pages online with no technical skills whatsoever. Plus you get a free blog to with it if you want that on your website. Because most of us aren’t technically savvy I’m making a limited time offer to get your website site installed for free. All you need to do is:

• Get a domain name (or use an existing one)
• Sign up or a web hosting plan via HostGator or GoDaddy

I just need the login info to either HostGator or GoDaddy. Go to the contact page and send me:
-the transaction id for your purchase of hostgator web hosting plan
-the username and password to login into your hostgator account (to install wordpress and upload plugin)
-the username password to login into your domain account (to point domain at your webhost servers)

Want to use a different web host or domain registrar? Send me a note and we’ll talk!
Already have a web hosting plan and/or domain name? I can install WordPress, and any theme you choose for $100. After that you’ll just need to add your content and configure your site which is easy! If you need help adding content or other setup I also also offer website consulting services.



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