Good Domain Practice
Just a very short note about building sites and thinking about domains.
When building a new e-commerce website it is important to understand that you do not necessarily need to build the site on a live domain. Even though Magento can look big and cumbersome it really is no bother migrating the site after it has been built.
Like all good internet programs (like wordpress for example), magento uses a baseurl feature – where all links/permalinks etc are built off a single (alt. a secure url too) url which can be changed at any time.
Therefore if one of your clients already has an old online shop that they do not want transferring until the new shop is absolutely perfect (and they also want to minimize downtime) then best practice might be to build your new site on a test domain or even simply a unique i.p. – then once complete and working you can DNS the old domain to this new IP and simply change the baseURL in the database.
