Lauramars

@jonradio – Thank you, I will look into this.

@netcom – I started off by Googling, but since a lot of it was just not making sense I came here. I keep thinking that this can’t possibly be that complicated considering how many people get a website with their own domain name set up within hours. It’s just new to me so this first time is kind of slow.

I’d prefer not to ask my coworker simply because this is kind of a personal site for now. The second part you mentioned about uploading WordPress to the htdocs I do sort of understand and I’m confident I can get that part. It sounds like I just need to contact 1&1.com first and ask them for the addresses. If I just ask them for the two server addresses they should understand right? Maybe if I explain to them what I’m trying to do they’d understand better?

Thanks again. I’m hoping by the end of the weekend I can have WordPress connected to my domain I purchased and start designing the website!

I do recall my coworker uploading the WorldPress to our work’s FTP site.

I guess that’s where I’m getting a little lost.

I have Filezilla downloaded and used it once before, but probably almost 8 years ago. I’m not sure where to go or what information to use to connect to my webhosting server. I purchased my domain from 1&1.com. Once I log in there, will there be a web address that I plug into FileZilla to access the area I need to put WordPress into? I’m not sure where you found the information “NS51.worldnic.com”.

If I’m not making sense I apologize. This is all a little above my head. Not so much that I can’t understand anything, but since I have not sat down and seen this process done I just can’t really envision it.

@jonradio: I thought that if you don’t have your own domain that you purchased and you just use WordPress.com, your website will be something like: Lauramarswebsite.wordpress.com? I definitely would like to keep my website’s domain name without wordpress in the URL in the end.

Thank you for the replies. I appreciate it!