Cpanel, No Big Deal

The cpanel is a big deal, really. If you want to learn to webmaster your site, which I highly recommend to do, you face the dreaded cpanel. I say ironically because it is not really a big problem.

I advise those who are learning to webmasters to start their own pages with FrontPage. This is a versatile WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) program. It has the power and functionality you need, and you do not need to know a grain of html. Not a speck. I'm sort of guy wysiwyg. I hold up crosses in html. Crosses and garlic.

First of all, what is the cpanel? The cpanel is nothing but the page will be giving you control on the server that hosts the site:

The server has a site. I use Bluehost. Then I go to the Bluehost site. I type my domain name and my password, hit enter, and you get to my c-panel.

The cpanel will have arranged the categories of tools you can use or will use to work on your site on the server side of things. Think of it this way: You have your own computer. Have the server. You have your files. Please find the files on the server. Technically, you can edit files on your server site until the end of things. An example of when you should do this: with a blog. The file can be a blog on the server end and not on your computer. But that's another topic. Back to cpanel.

The cpanel can tell you many things. You can perform many activities here, many fix-it, it can be done with the help of a support server-side. Above all, what you need to know, especially if you use FrontPage, which is, again, what I recommend if you're starting out, is to install the FrontPage extensions. This is extremely easy. All you do is click on the button that says "FrontPage Extensions" on cpanel. On Bluehost cpanel, the icon looks like a small block of four connected pieces of a puzzle, which I suppose is to resemble the Microsoft logo.

This will be in the area of ​​"advanced" of the panel. Do not be scared. There is nothing advanced about the procedure for installing extensions. You click on the icon. It is a page that tells you what FrontPage extensions are installed and which have been uninstalled. If you have more than one domain, you will see them all here. You can choose the domain where you want to install the extensions and install them with a click of the mouse. Thus, it is installed extensions. Not much to it. This will allow FrontPage to upload your own domain. That's it.

Sometimes extensions fail. You must uninstall and reinstall, just like with other software. This typically happens when you leave your site alone for a while '. Have not been published. And 'as if the domain and the server forgot about you. I do not know what is happening and why it happens this way. It does not matter. What matters is that you can uninstall and reinstall with minimal problems. If you have installed web security, you need to reinstall. All this will be evident. The page on which you install the extensions will give you this information. The page also advises that "if you uninstall, htaccess files must be reinstalled." If your blog on your site, this could affect the blog. If the uninstall and reinstall the blog hits, server support, can help correct this problem. By the way, you save the blog. Right?

The other main function is to provide cpanel tell your domains that you want to do something. You can have a sub-domain point to your main domain. It can be understood in reference to himself. You can even do anything with it. Why did you do? Why have not you built a site for it yet or have not made another point to your site. You simply bought the domain and is sitting there.

A point of buying domains: Try doing that with the server that you have decided to host your site. It 'a pain to transfer a. What rhymes, unfortunately. More unfortunate is your choice to buy a domain through a person other than a reliable server that offers good support. The transfer of a domain is not a huge pain, but there's time involved. It is much easier to simply buy a domain through your host, and then do what you want with your domain once you've bought.

The way in which a basic account runs at Bluehost, and many other servers, is that you get a root domain. All the rest of the domains are directed through the primary. So you can create a new domain, and will, in effect, as if the new domain is your domain. Do not try to be an appendage to the main site, although it will be. So if buyit.com has another domain - the name says it pleasebuyit - pleasebuyit can show how pleasebuyit.com not buyit.com / pleasebuyit.com, even if the server is still consider buyit.com of your main site. This, you can check through the cpanel. On Bluehost, this icon is called "domain manager".

Do you have a lot of other things you can do on the cpanel, but nothing is as crucial as what I said. You can check the statistics, ie, you can see who came to your site (the address your ISP) and what they clicked on and for how long they have been to your site, all of this. This is of course valuable information easily accessible through the cpanel.

This is valuable information. But not knowing this information will have no effect on what your site looks or if it comes at all.

And that's all. No big deal. It will still do most of your work on your computer using FrontPage webmasters.