Bill McRea

One of cpanel’s more powerful applications is the software and services tab. The tools that cpanel provides can allow you to quickly and easily install software on your server that used to take hours of tedious coding and uploading of various different files. Let’s take a look at some the services that you might find in your cpanel.

CGI Center

The CGI center includes a menu of pre-installed scripts that you can use in your account such as:

• Simple CGI Wrapper

• Random HTML Generator

• Simple Guestbook

• Advanced Guestbook

• Counter, clock, countdown

• and other scripts that you might find useful on your website.

Perl Module Installer

Some versions of cpanel might include the Perl Module installer, which are collections of functions that allow you to perform tasks in the Perl programming language.

Fantastico DeLuxe

Fantastico is most likely the most popular button in the software and services tab because it contains powerful scripts that make the installation of blogs and content management systems as easy as a few clicks. Fantastico allows you to quickly and easily install:

• Blogs

• Classifieds

• Content Managment Systems

• CRM

• Discussion Boards

• E-Commerce Shopping Carts

• FAQ

• Hosting Billing

• Image Galleries

• Mailing Lists

• And several others

You can use Fantastico to install any of the scripts mentioned along with several others. The software automatically installs a MySQL database for the specific program.

To install a WordPress blog, simply click on, ‘WordPress’ in the left menu of scripts. Next Click ‘New Installation,’ and then you will fill in the following fields:

Install on domain: type your domain name

Install in directory: If this blog is the only thing that you will have on this domain, then you can leave this field blank. If you want to host other properties on this domain, put the blog in its own directory called, “blog.”

Admin access data: Enter a username that you will remember. The default is ‘Admin,’ but if you leave the username as ‘Admin,’ it will make your site much easier to hack.

Create a strong password that is alpha-numeric, and contains upper and lower case letters and a few characters. Write down your username and password and keep them somewhere safe.

Admin nickname: Choose this carefully as this will be displayed publicly as the author of your blog posts.

Admin email: This is the email address that will be associated with the blog.

Site name: This is the name of the blog.

Description: This is where you would put your blog’s tagline if you have one.

After you fill in all of those fields, click on ‘Install WordPress,’ next click ‘Finish installation.’ The software will send you an email with all of the details about your WordPress installation.

That’s how easy it is to install a blog when you have Fantastico on cpanel.

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Buying or leasing an existing website can be a very effective and relatively easy way to make your business or Company’s online presence known. As you have probably already realised, having a website and being able to be found on the internet are important factors of your business success, so it makes sense to utilise an already successful and functional website for your own business.

There are actually many people out there who buy websites much like people buy investment properties – sites which are structurally sound, but have room for improvement and once they’re spruced up a little they have the ability to turn a profit once again. Online, this profit is found through adding ads to investment websites, upping the traffic to those sites and then reaping the rewards from the advertising.

However, if you are looking for a website for your own business or as an investment, the basic structure you need and the additions you will make are very similar and here’s how to go about it. First decide whether you are looking for a website which is simply informative, or one which also allows for visitors to shop online, this will also be determined by the sort of business you run as some products and most services cannot be purchased over the internet anyway.

An online store is one of the major structural aspects of a website you are looking to buy and much the same way you would lean towards an investment property with a new kitchen rather than a daggy lime green one, so too is it easier to build and adapt an existing online store, rather than establish the security, shopping carts and payment options from scratch.

The remaining work website investors will put into a newly purchased site is regarding its search engine optimisation. However, when you are looking to purchase a website for your business, it is important to remember that a lot of what can be detrimental to a website’s optimisation, can actually have to do with web design.

Search engine optimisation is not only about adding the right number of the right keywords to a website and expecting Google to see this as SEO. The website’s design, the programming, the layout and even the server systems can all affect that website’s optimisation and if you’re unsure how to check on any or all of these things before purchasing a website, have an SEO expert check out behind the scenes, because you don’t want to have to go knocking through walls later.

As with any investment there are pitfalls and surprises which can cost you a lot of time and money down the track and ‘buyer beware’ is just as relevant when purchasing an investment online as it is down the street. So in much the same way a property investor may bypass the self-serving real estate agents trying to move properties no one wants, and go straight to a builder or developer for something structurally sound form the beginning, there are also opportunities for your business to buy its website ‘off the plan’ too.

SEO companies in the UK would rather see the internet populated with properly optimised, useful and informative sites and while you can seek their advice on your website purchase, there are also SEOers in the UK who build websites solely with optimisation in mind, waiting for businesses just like yours to add your name to them.

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