mikegreer

P.S. — Given the grief that iPowerWeb gave me re: installing WordPress and warning me that they wouldn’t support me with WordPress and given the friendliness and support and instant installation given by Bluehost, I recommend that any of you who are trying to set up WordPress on iPowerWeb should simply switch to Bluehost.

OK. I gave this whole installation business a bunch of thought and decided to simply set up an account with your top recommended WordPress host: Bluehost. About 20 minutes after I established my Bluehost account, I had installed a database and, within it, automatically installed WordPress. So now, I need to learn to USE WordPress, instead of fooling around trying to install it. Sorry to have bothered you.

Thank you. I am going to go away no and do some homework, follow-up on your suggested links, and hope the install4free guys to get back to me! I really appreciate your guidance.

re: “2. Set up an area in my iPowerWeb account as a database”

I meant that I went into my iPowerWeb acccount, clicked on vDeck and these menus: Host Manager, Databases, Setup – When I got to Setup, I added a new database and gave it a name. There is absolutely nothing in this new database. I think it’s just something like a file folder… an empty spot for a database.

As you can see, I have never worked with any database on iPowerWeb (or anywhere else) before.

Wow, moshu… that was fast. Thank you. I will try to do more homework as you suggested.

But one quick question: Is this silly for me to be doing, given my background [no programming at all]? After looking at screenshots and reading reviews, I figured WordPress would be easy to use. But I’m not prepared to learn SQL, etc.