Planning and Building a New Website
Assuming already have:
- Domain name + rec’d registrars
- Website hosting + rec’d hosting co’s (budget:Namecheap, mid/value:WPX, high-end:Kinsta,Closte)
Steps:
- Accounts and basic details
- Prepare contact information for site
- Email address. Ideally @domain.tld not gmail/yahoo/outlook. Set one up and get SMTP/POP details. (outside scope? future topic?)
- Phone (recommendations if need new separate biz number? free and premium options)
- Mailing address (future topic GMB setup, local SEO)
- Create SMTP account for deliverability on all hosts (free postmark recommended/linked)
- Create cloud DNS/firewall account for security and speed features (free Cloudflare rec’d/linked. Future post re firewall and page rules.)
- Create hcaptcha account for additional login security.
- Prepare contact information for site
- Plugin stack (GP Premium, FF, Code Snippets,
- Decide on color palette. Will be inherited by buttons, forms, links, other CSS to be added later.
- ID hex code, get complementary color from Canva tool.
- Define shades and tints of each. Ideally hover/active = tints (lighter), active/focus = shades (darker). Toptal tool.
- Add these to Customizer so GP can create the CSS variables.