Clover

1. Have your Content in Place:

Once you have purchased your website from Clover, you will be given links to a temporary location so you can get it ready to launch. All of your content (photos, text, logo, colors, etc) should be in place before you begin the launch process. This ensures that your site is ready before the world views it!


2. Have your Website Address:

Make sure you have your website address (www.yoursite.com) chosen and purchased. This is required to make your site live on the internet. If you do not own a web address yet, no worries. We have a help article that will walk you through how to choose and purchase a great web address.


3. Have Your Email In Place:

It's good to have email in place before you launch your site. If you already have email (maybe with the hosting company you had before Clover), you can continue to use that if you'd like. The downside of this is that you'll still need to pay your old hosting company. If you'd like to set up new email, we recommend an amazing service called Google Apps. It's got a lot of perks: it's free, it uses your web address, it doesn't place ads in your emails, it offers the world's best spam protection, and it gives you a tremendous amount of space to hold your email. We use it for Clover, and have never been disappointed. If you are interested in setting up an email account through Google, check out our help article, Setting Up Your Email, and we'll walk you through it.


4. Everything's in Place, It's Time to Go Live:

Now that you have your content in place, website address purchased, and email up and running, it's time to launch! We have this process laid out in another help article. View Launching Your New Site and follow the steps. As always, if you have any questions at all, call us at 805-527-8900 and we'll help you out.