Domain migration? or website shutdown! When building a new website.

[Howie Crosby]

Hello,

I currently have a scrollkit site, but am going to build/get built a decent WordPress website. The scrollkit is howiecrosby.com, should I shut down my current site and transfer the .com
over to WordPress and build?

Or transfer another .com, build on that, then switch when the time is right?

Or any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much,

Howie.

 

[Theo]

Hey Howie, you can install WordPress and build it under a hidden directory, then move it to the home path once you're done. An example of the latter can be found at http://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-to-root-directory

 

[Howie Crosby]

Hi Theo, Cheers fella very much appreciated. :cheers:

 

[Shane]

Do you happen to be a Mac user? If so, check out MAMP. It allows you to run Wordpress locally for development.

 

[Howie Crosby]

Do you happen to be a Mac user? If so, check out MAMP. It allows you to run Wordpress locally for development.

Yes I am, thanks thank you, I have installed MAMP but then realised I could download WordPress into my BlueHost server/Host account, but I assume you mean to use MAMP as a server for dev, however this gets a bit beyond me to be honest :?:

Thanks for the post though Beards