WEBD2 Club Meeting Minutes
April 16, 2025, 4 – 5PM CDT
In Attendance
- Robert Buchholz
- April Baeb
- Kristal Kuss
- Lise Price
- Paula Roppuld
Meeting Agenda
- Welcome
- DreamHost Setup and Hosting Demo
- Schedule next meeting
Mailchimp
Revisited the club Mailchimp account to determine why warning messages may have attached to the last email. Also looked at some of the management tools available within Mailchimp. Discussed some changes to incorporate into the email set-up to improve it, garner more clicks and build in some visitor tracking features.
DreamHost
Robert gave a demo on getting a website set up with the DreamHost hosting service.
- Register for a domain (the domain name)
- Domain vs Subdomain
- Choose hosting plan
- Open Control Panel
- Choose “Websites” from the menu
- Choose “Manage Websites”
- Click “Add Website”
- Add Secure Certificate (http vs https)
- DreamHost offers LetsEncrypt security certificate which is free and auto-renews
DNS
Robert gave an explanation of DNS service which translates human friendly website domain names into the numerical IP addresses through a ISP provider so that websites can be found and loaded into the browser.
Next Meeting
Next meeting Wednesday April 30, 2025.
Lise and Paula to work in Mailchimp for next meeting email.
Respectfully submitted by P. Roppuld, secretary