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Website Setup for Free, Start Blogging Today

August 2, 2018 By Sojy John

Taking time to establish your online presence with a website is key to having a successful business.

It’s necessary to set up a website and I will show you step-by-step on how to make this happen with ease.

One of the most common excuses I hear from new bloggers is that they don’t know how to install WordPress.

Terms like FTP, CPanel and setting up a database are like foreign languages to them and because of this tactical barrier, they never start their blog.

If you’re in this situation, then you’ll be happy to know that I will do this for you for free. Yes, FREE. I will let you know how.

For now, read along…

Why would you need a website?

1) Showcase your work:

Having a website enables you to demonstrate the work you have accomplished as an individual if you are starting for personal purpose. If you are in business, it increases the credibility of your business.

2) Giveaway stuffs for free:

You can start blogging and give away valuable information to your audience. It also helps to solve many problems and create solutions while answering questions.

3) Everyone has a different purpose:

As a company, you can highlight various company goals. If needed, you can create pages for getting individuals on an email list. You could, as a company, create product pages that show what you are offering.

4) To be On top of things.

Once you have a website, you can be on top of things. It would be critical if you are a business owner.

5) Increases trust

Having a website creates trust and people will be confident about the things you are selling.
It also increases the chances of getting and keeping customers.

6) Your online presence

People can find you and get to know what you have to offer. They can find you in a specific place to locate your products with ease.

How To Set Up A Website

Step-By-Step Guide On Creating A Website

Step #1: Setting Up A Website.

Three things necessary to set up a website:

Domain name – A website name that’s chosen and this is your online real estate.
Hosting – Where data is stored on the website.
Website – an Actual place where you build the site

Step #2: Get a domain name

So what is a domain name?

Domain names are easy-to-remember words that we can use to communicate to a DNS server the website we want to visit. The Domain Name System (DNS) is what translates the friendly name to an IP address.

Somewhat like international phone numbers, the domain name system gives every server a memorable and easy-to-spell address, such as sojyjohn.com.

The domain name hides the IP address that most people aren’t interested in seeing or using, like the 108.167.183.6 address used by sojyjohn.com.

In other words, it’s much easier to type “sojyjohn.com” in your web browser than it is to remember and enter the IP address that the website uses. This is why domain names are so incredibly useful.

Some of the hosting providers like Bluehost, Hostgator gives you the option to get a domain name.

To get a domain name, I would suggest using Namecheap.com or Godaddy.com which have cheap plans.

I personally use Namecheap and you can signup with name cheap using Namecheap.com

Once the account is created, you just log in and search for a proper domain name. The name of the website you are trying to create. It can be probably yourname.com or yourcompanyname.com etc.

If the domain is available, you can go ahead and do the purchase, else it will show other options.

I would suggest going for a name which is 3 words or less according to your choice. Also, remember to go with a “.com” website.

I’m just giving an example below of how the search can be done. If the domain name is available, you can buy it, else look for another one.

As you see, the domain names are so cheap and costs around 10 USD/Yr. Add it to cart and buy the domain name.

You have a name, now you need a body 🙂

Step #3: Setup hosting

Now you can proceeed to Hostgator and create an account.

Select one plan, I would suggest the baby hosting plan. It’s worth the money because it gives reduced rates for three years and you can host unlimited domains.

Which implies that, in future, if you want to set up more websites, you can use the same plan, nothing extra has to be paid for 3 years.

If at all you are tight in budget and want to try out kinds of stuff, go with the hatchling plan for a year or so. So it’s up to you.

The plans I mentioned above can be seen when you click on “Get Started” from the link I provided.

Step #4: connect The Hosting with the domain you created in step #2.

Once you are done with the order at Hostgator, you will receive an email from Hostgator with details of the billing system and your cPanel details as below.

From the above mail, you will get the Nameserver details. Here, its ns***.hostgator.com. You may need this to be used in your domain name. Now we go back to Namecheap and add the two nameservers from here to custom DNS.

It can be done as below.

First, log in to Namecheap.com using your username and password created at STEP #2. Then, navigate to Dashboards -> “The domain name you created” -> Manage.

You should see something like below. From there, in NameServers Option, select Custom DNS and add the two name servers. Please note that the two name servers are different. Also, it may take some delay to set this up.

Step #5: Install WordPress in your website from Cpanel

So, now you have a name and a body, the next part is adding flesh to your website 🙂

From the mail you received from Hostgator, you will have the control panel details. Now is the time to log in to the control panel using the information provided.

From the control panel, search for WordPress and you will get the below option.

Setup word press in the domain. From Next screen, just select the domain name from the dropdown and leave the directory field empty.

Press Next and you will be shown a screen where you may have to enter details about your Site Name, Site Description and also you will get an option to select the admin password.

This will be later used to login to the WordPress dashboard. This installation will take less than 5 minutes to complete.

WOW!!! That’s it, your website should be ready by now. You can now access your website which has WordPress installed and you can visit the site’s Dashboard using the link http://yourwesite.com/wp-admin

Step #6 setup the website from the dashboard.

WordPress dashboard is where the building of the website actually begins.

Pick a theme and start building out entire website. YOU ARE NOW A PROUD OWNER OF A WEBSITE 🙂

Ok, now for the part I have mentioned at the begining. If all of these tasks seem difficult for you [I don’t think it will be 🙂 ], I can help to set up this for you free of cost.

Not only that, I will also install for free the following plugins to get your blog started on the right foot:

Yoast SEO – Free version takes care of most SEO requirements
W3 Total Cache – It will make your blog load a lot faster and handle more traffic
Monster Insights – Connect with google and you can analyze the traffic and other aspects of your website

What’s In For Me?

If you were to pay someone to install WordPress and the plugins for you, it would cost you at least $100.

To get the free WordPress installation service, all you have to do is order a web hosting plan from HostGator. Then forward me the login information to sojy dot john [at] gmail.com and I’ll install WordPress for you. Afterwards, I’ll email you back the login information for your new WordPress blog and you can start blogging!

Click Here To Order Your New WordPress Blog

I will also include instructions on how to change all your login passwords. I will not keep any of the forwarded information from HostGator. Once WordPress has been set up, I will destroy the email.

Get 60% Off Any Web Hosting Plan

They have a Word class web hosting and doesn’t cost you much. HostGator WordPress hosting plans start as low as $6.95 per month. However, HostGator has a special deal for my readers that will give you 60% off that already low price. With the discount, you can start your blog for only $2.75!

Start your blog for 60% off, get WordPress and plugins installed for free.

If you’re ready to start blogging right now, head over to HostGator, order your hosting plan and I’ll get you started.

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Suddenly, I have All The Time In The World!

July 20, 2018 By Sojy John

Ever wondered how you alone doesn’t seem to have any time to do your regular tasks let alone having time to do some extra stuff?

If Time Management is not something you have worried till now, you may leave now. You are on good track :), else continue reading. Find out how I was also in the same situation and found a solution to tackle the situation.

The Need For Time Management:

Time Management or anything related to personal development was something I have always being passionate about. We had to figure out our goods and bads since there was no proper guidance from our childhood(it was not for me alone, it was almost true for all the kids of our time)). I guess that can be one of the reasons why most of our generation was successful and hard working also.

After passing out from the college with a degree, you are out in this world to earn money without even a clue on how to manage it since it’s something which is never thought in school or discussed in the family. These were things we had to figure out ourselves. I will discuss more on that in one of my future posts.

The matter of interest in this post is time management and let me stick to that. So, when I found that time is something that I was not able to manage, I spend a large amount of time learning about it. And I believe that’s what we need to do, if we are not able to figure out something or we don’t know about a subject, we need to go on a quest to learn about that. Have long-term plans to learn about it. It’s not that you start learning about a subject for a week or a month and you become an expert on that topic. No, things don’t work like that. So I spend months learning about time management and finally figured out some tools.

I tried many tools and currently, I’m sticking with a simple tool which I thought can be useful for whoever is reading this. One thing which came as a common factor in all time management lessons was to write down the tasks.

My Inspiration:

Make a plan and write it down. As per Brian Tracy, there is only 3% of people who have a written goal and all others works for them :), its crazy, yes its really crazy if you try to comprehend the idea. Written goals are really what matters and I’m not sure why it’s not being thought in any school or colleges. Anyway, that’s something we need to think about.

Studies after studies have proved that you have to have written goals, again, I’m deviating from our subject matter :). Let me come straight to the tool which is simple but powerful. So you just have to plan your tasks for the next day. List down all the tasks you have to do for next day and sort it from A to E. Then take and review this list carefully using the ABCDE method. This is adapted from Brian Tracy from the book “Eat that Frog“.

About The Tool:

The ABCDE stands for five different ways of allocating time on this list.

Category A: So A is the tasks which are “Must Do“, which has to be done, otherwise, the world is going to fall. It’s super critical without which your carrier or life will be at the stake. Mark all those tasks in A and then move on to the next set, which is categorized as B.
Category B: B category tasks are something which is “Nice to do“. Those tasks can only be done after category A tasks and those are tasks if done would be good. Mail reading etc falls under that category.
Category C: Next category is C, which are tasks that are “Fun to do“. Taking a walk, going for a movie etc will fall into that category. So the rule is that you move from one category to another one only after finishing all tasks from the previous category.
Category D: Now category D is the tasks you can “Delegate” to someone. All tasks may not be possible for you to be done alone, so delegate them, like folding clothes, delegate to your kid :).
Category E: Now the next category is E, those are the ones we need to “Eliminate“. Never do them, we actually do many kinds of stuff which are supposed to be eliminated but we do it and by end of the day we feel we have accomplished something, but in reality, it had not given any value to your life. So find a way to eliminate those tasks have a strong backbone to say no to tasks which you think should be eliminated and which are time wasters.

What Next?

After categorizing all tasks into A, B C D, and E, we now have to arrange them among the categories. That is, tasks in category A which you feel is most difficult and more priority has to be done first. So you have to number it as A1, then A2 etc..Do the same for all tasks in each category. Ensure that the first task you are going to do is the most difficult task. And that’s why the book is called “Eat that frog“.

If you have not read, please do read it and have a leap in your productivity.

Tool To Track:

Again, once the tasks are listed and categorized and arranged, we should have a tool to write it down and track it. I personally use one note as it is available in almost all systems using windows. One more thing I felt useful was to break down the big task into very small ones and put a checkbox so that whenever we do the tasks and check it, we feel encouraged and motivated to do more.

I’m posting below a screenshot of how it can be done. I’m blurring unwanted stuff 🙂

Once we are done with these, there should be a tool to get us focused on one task, in my next post I’ll share a tool called Pomodoro. Please google it and you may find it useful too.

Are You Using A Tool?

Please let me know if this was in any way helpful to you. If so, don’t forget to comment. Please let me know which tools do you use for time management. Waiting for your valuable comments 🙂

Smule Songs – Mandara Cheppundo

April 22, 2018 By Sojy John

Small attempt in smule with Mandara Cheppundo!

Mexico City : Where History Meets Technology

March 17, 2018 By Sojy John

Mexico city is the capital of mexico which is beautiful and amazing. Our journey started from the international airport. It is amazing that the airport is in the middle of crowd, not like other airports which are far from cities. We traveled to our hotel where we had delicious Mexican lunch and a beautiful stay. After travelling to Mexico City from a place like Monterrey, it made me wonder why there are not fans or air condition in the rooms and after enquiring, I came to know that its typical, not to have them even in big hotels and houses as the climate is always pleasant.

Day 1 : A beautiful morning ,there was little rain showers and we took the Metro train which is the cheapest in the world. We reached the beautiful Chapultepec Castle which is considered as Mexico city’s lungs, with trees that replenish oxygen to the valley of mexico. Its built on the top of Chapultepec hill. It was built at the time of vice royalty as the summer home of Viceroy. All the materials, even the bed, dining table, clothes everything which the Viceroy was using is arranged in a beautiful manner for the tourists to see. We spend around 4 hours roaming the castle and understanding the history of “Battle of Chapultepec”. It is a must visit place in Mexico city.

In the evening, there was little sunshine and we stopped near the small street shops to buy Mexican toys for my kid. We went back to our hotel and had a delicious Mexican dinner enchiladas. I am still having the taste in my tongue.. 🙂

Day 2: As my friend suggested, we took the Turi bus from Polanco in Mexico city which is cheap and wonderful. It is an open bus which takes all around important monuments in the city. The city is covered with trees. It was a different experience in the bus taking photos and visiting places as a gang and also there were announcements and explanations of all the places in English. They give a travel map and depending upon our destinations, we could select the bus.

Our First stop was at Museo Nacional de Antropología which is a national museum of Mexico. It is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico. The museum contains significant archaeological and anthropological artifacts from Mexico’s pre-Columbian heritage, such as the Stone of the Sun (or the Aztec calendar stone) and the Aztec Xochipilli statue. There are many small shops ouside the museum and if you plan to buy something, its cheap there.

Next we took the bus route to Acuario Inbursa and Soumaya Museum…

The Day concluded with visiting more places and the night view of Paseo De Reforma...

Day 3: We traveled to Teotihuacan, to visit the Mexican pyramid of sun. I don’t know how to express our feelings, it is such a wonderful creation. It is the largest building in Teotihuacan, believed to be constructed around 200 CE considered largest in MesoAmerica.

It is 75 meters high making it the third largest pyramid in the world. We spend some time and climbed the pyramid till top. Wow!! such a beautiful view and we felt we are near the Sun God. While climbing down we saw lots of street stores which sell energy stone, necklace, rings. We bought beautiful necklace and rings from the street ladies who seem to be very genuine, and selling the products for their living. They explained us that energy stone heals pain and provide positive energy. We took a bus which connected us to the city.

The Mexican wonders continues…

Day 4 : We had our flight at night and so, we planned to visit Zocalo and churches nearby as it was a Sunday morning. We visited Bellas Artes, Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral and Zocalo Central. We spend some time there and felt blessed at the historical Metropolitan Cathedral church and by noon, we went back to our hotel and then took our flight back to Monterrey, leaving some great memories behind.

How To Repair A Car Dent At Home

March 3, 2018 By Sojy John

I had a dent in my car two months before. I searched online for a DIY option and found that using very hot water can be a solution. I tried, but it did not help. I used the car with that dent for about a month when someone suggested me to try with a Hair Dryer. I tried and it was a huge success.

I thought I would share this with someone sometime so it can be of help. One week before, I got another dent(No, It was not intentional 🙂 ) and I ensured that I did not miss the opportunity to record the entire process.

Below video was made for anyone trying to figure out how to repair a car dent at home. Hope you would like it, please let me know for any comments and do subscribe for more life hack videos.

It also has my new intro video for the logo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LropXgXDdJE&t