Weebly to WordPress Transition Host Name Issue

so to clarify, im using weebly for my CMS site right now but i hate it and want to switch over. But I’m gonna keep using the weebly site while I’m working on the WP version of the site on a different host name. Once the site is developed, can I save all those files and reupload or i guess transfer them onto the https://www.vballworld.com host name under fatcow?

if I get a free wordpress name including WORDPRESS in the website address

On a self-hosted site? No – although you can install WP in a wordpress sub-folder if you want that in your url.

can I save all my files on that wordpress website

Your WP site’s content is stored in your database – not in files. I would recommend that you focus on creating all of your content online – on the vballworld.com site once WordPress is installed.

Basically I was asking if I could create a wordpress account via wordpress and not via Fatcow. Then I want to transfer the wordpress website and link it with my Fatcow account so I can eventually have the WP website on https://www.vballworld.com. Is that ok?

You either install WordPress on your own site/domain (self-hosting) or you could opt for a free, non-transferable, wordpress.com site instead. There’s no other kind of account that you can have to create a site and move it some place else afterwards.

Ok. Thanks. But obviously it’ll take a couple days for me to create the WP website on my self-hosting so how can I keep the Weebly website up while I have WP going on? Should I install it somewhere like: https://www.vballworld.com/wordpress ? will I eventually be able to move that to my regular name at: https://www.vballworld.com ?

Install WP in a sub-folder on your domain. Then, when you are ready to launch the new site, see Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory.

what do u mean by a subfolder? is that like what i described above? https://www.vballworld.com/new or https://www.vballworld.com/test? sorry for the noobish questions

Try using https://www.vballworld.com/wordpress