First of all, welcome to our family! :o) Now you'll have to decide how you are going develop your site. The are many
ways you can work your site from plain simple to the most impressive and complex manner. First, let's start with the basics...
PASSWORDS:
You should have received a password for your account included in your Welcome Letter. Once this password has been changed through your
Control Panel, they will act as two. A System password and a Control Panel password. These are two completely different password.
First of all, the Control Panel password, is used to log into your Control Panel and manage your account based on accounting, e-mail, services,
among many others features. For complete explanation of the Control Panel please go to our
Control Panel section.
The system password is used for logging into your Telnet, FTP and Front Page. This password is significantly the most important, because
it is used for uploading, editing, and deleting your web site files. It is very important that you do not give this password to
anyone you do not trust.
Note: Once you change your system password, do not change it to something simple. Use a combination of numbers and letters,
since someone may try using a password cracker or a password brute force attack to try and figure out your password. Also do not access your
account from a public computer or another person's, since they might have password sniffers or keyboard typing recorders which might scan
your password. Always use secure connections to access your account. Please go to our
Security FAQ
for more information.
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CONTROL PANEL:
Your Control Panel is used for managing your web site's setting. You can manage your e-mail addresses, statistics, passwords, accounting issues,
domains, and reseller options. In summary, through your Control Panel you can manage your web site's account.
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CGI APPS:
Ikonboard:
Want a message board? We got it! One of the best comprehensive web bulletin board is included in this section. Activate your message board in this section to
have your visitors post any message, chat in a forum, or discuss any ideas or topic.
DNS | DOMAIN:
Domain Pointers:
Domain pointers allow you to have different domains pointing to your web site. Have as many domain pointing to your main domain hosted at A+ Hosting. This is an excellent
way to make your site grow by having an additional domain to access your web site.
Domain Registration:
Do you want a new domain? You can register a new domain and save through DMD Studio Domain Hosting.
Note: Domains take around 2-5 days for the information to spread around the Internet.
Subdomains:
Want another website within your own domain? You can have a new URL of the form "anothersite.mysite.com". Want another website within your own domain? You can have a new URL of
the form "anothersite.mysite.com". Check our product page for more information.
Transfers:
Need to change your domain's DNS so that it points to our servers? Or want to transfer your domain to our registrar company and get your domain extended by an extra year? This is where you can request it.
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EMAIL SETUP
- Aliases
Create aliases for existing e-mail account. This will have a professional look to it by having aliases to be same as another e-mail address. You can also verify any existing one.
- Autoresponders
Want to send a auto-message when somebody emails you? Just create the auto-message here and it will it sent automatically to everyone who emails you. Also, you will be listed all autoresponders
you have already created.
- E-mail Forwarding
Forward all incoming emails to an email address to another address. If you like to convert a POP3 account into a forwarder, you can also do so. A list of forwarders is also provided.
- External Email Services
You can provide free, web based email service on your web site via third-party email services from EveryOne.Net or BigMailBox.com.
- Passwords
Change your email account's passwords. Change all emails account's passwords or reset an email account's password if you lost it.
- POP3 email accts
Create/delete/list POP3 accounts.
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FEATURES:
- Extra Accounts
If you will be having other people maintaining separate sections of your website, you can create a login username/password/directory combination within your account. Create them and see which
extra accounts you have created.
- FrontPage Management
This is where you can reinstall/delete your Front Page's Management and verify the status of a request reinstallation/deletion.
- MySQL Admin
Need to set up a MySQL database? Set it up here! Also, check out those databases that you have already created.
- SSL
Make part of your web site secure so that your visitors can do secure transactions over your web site. Here is complete information on how to purchase and setup your secure certificate.
Passwords
- Change Control Panel Password
Change the password used to login to your Control Panel.
- Change System Password
Change the password used for Front Page, FTP and Telnet.
Statistics
- Stats Report
See data related to your site's visitors, what they do, what you should do to attract them, what browser to design for, and more.
- Direct Log Access
If you use your own software to process your site's logs, then you can set to access them via this option.
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UPLOADING METHODS
Front Page
Once of the most popular was of building a site is using FrontPage 2000/2002. This program will assist you in making a professional and outstanding web site.
Please refer to our
Front Page FAQ to see the most common mistakes.
Note: Do not use FrontPage's built-in FTP. It will destroy your account.
Telnet
If your going to use Telnet, then we suggest reading our
Security FAQ and
Telnet Tutorial.
We do strongly recommend using a secure client. For more information on this, please verify our
SecureCRT Tutorial to set up
your secure telnet client.
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FTP
Note: Do not use an FTP client if your using Front Page.
Using an FTP client is one of the most used programs to manage a web site's files. We recommend reading our
FTP Tutorial. Better yet, read
our
secure FTP client Tutorial.
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