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Free Tools For Building Your Web SiteAt THE HOST GROUP, our goals are to help you build your site quickly and maintain it with minimal effort. Unlike many low cost webhosting companies, we give you full access to your server. So, you can install any open source or commercial web building tools available in the market (as long as they do not violate our policies). However, to make life as a webmaster even easier, we have assembled a suite of tools that are ready to use at the click of a button. Below are quick descriptions just a few of the tools we offer:SiteXpress is a simple to use, yet powerful "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) web site builder. With SiteXpress, you can design a professional looking web site in minutes. (OK, it might take longer if you don't know what you want your site to say!) With SiteXpress, you start by designing a great home page including text, menus, images, etc. SiteXpress has hundreds of pre-defined templates that help you tryout different looks for your site as well as assemble all the right pages. Best of all, it is free with any hosting account. Try it out here even before you start your hosting account. Please use the following logon credentials: username = sites password = IRElWJWR WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What does that really mean? WordPress is one of the most popular open source blog creation and maintenance tools ever made. It has a huge user base and support community. Best of all it's free. Learn more about WordPress at www.wordpress.org. Then come back and install WordPress for free with a click of the mouse on your THE HOST GROUP control panel. Error Page Handler is a simple, yet powerful, tool that saves you many hours in website development. Have you ever seen those dreaded "404 Error - Webpage not found" messages while surfing the web? Just use our simple tools and your visitors will be directed to a custom page of your design instead. Mail Manager allows you to provision new mail boxes for your site (name@yourdomain.com), establish forwarding and auto responder tools, and manage mailbox quotas to ensure you do not run out of disk space. Mail Manager also allows you to apply spam protection, anti-virus and other tools, administer mailing lists and more. Database Manager allows you to easily create, manage and administer MySQL databases on your website. Open Web Mail is a free open source web mail client that allows you to log in to your THE HOST GROUP hosted email accounts from anywhere that you can get a web connection. Formmail is an application designed to allow your website visitors to email you from your website, without having to open a separate email client, such as Outlook, Thunderbird, or Eudora. All your users will have to do is fill out the form you provide and click a button. THE HOST GROUP provides and installs the scripting tools and server side resources you need to make this work on your website. Cron Job Manager allows you to schedule recurring jobs on your server to execute automatically. Need to update a data feed for your site? Let the cron job manager take care of it. FTP User Manager allows you to give access to your site files to as many users as you see fit. AWStats allows you to see all the relevant details of who is visiting your site, what the view, when the come from and where they exit to. This is just a sampling of the many free tools we offer at THE HOST GROUP. |
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