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We determined that designing straight HTML or using a more exotic technology for our site would limit the number of people that would be able to help us on Fiverr. As a result, we’ve opted to use a content management system (CMS).

We searched Fiverr by simply entering in the names of every CMS we could think of into their search box and found the top three:

Drupal has 138 results at the time we did the search
Joomla had 371
Wordpress had 3240

So, we’re going to go with WordPress. Now our VPS utilizes cpanel and Fantastico thus giving us the ability to install WordPress automatically. We’ve decided against this for the time being as we noticed individuals selling wordpress sites already to go for $5!

We searched for dog wordpress sites and found three people that would send us a wordpress site ready to go with dog training content. Not exactly dogs for families but it will get us started. While none of those people have received any feedback, we noticed two of them were very similar, one told us it actually cost $25 and you would need to buy his gig 5 times to complete the purchase. We tried to load their demo site just to see and nothing happened. So by default, we’re going to spend our first $5 with Artyray and see what happens. Stay tuned!

Update #1: Are a few hours we received our file from Artyray and successfully loaded it to dogforfamily.com and now we have a site up and running! Of course, the site was in no way unique and in fact there are probably hundreds of exact copies out there right now but we knew that and were looking more for a suitable shell for our site to come. Our next step was to login and update the contact information and do something about the ads that are setup with the affiliate codes of someone else but we looked all through the documentation and couldn’t find any login details for the wordpress admin area. We could go through the database and sort it out but figured we’d just send a message to Artyray to get the scoop.

Update #2: Ok, Artyray had no idea what the password was but we keep looking and actually found in buried in a readme file in a sub-director of the files he sent us. All is well. The initial site is up and running and it’s time to work on our site design and content.

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