Website is a very broad category for organizing the many main topics that are involved when working on creating, managing, or troubleshooting websites for the internet. This page divides the articles into 7 major sections: Website Creation and Management, Website Troubleshooting, SSL Certificates, Domain Names, Databases, Login Support, Security.
Website Creation and Management
There are many tools or applications that can facilitate website creation, website design, and server management. Here you can find familiar software applications and some great guides for beginners looking into building a website.
- Getting Started Guide: Website
- What software are you using?
- How do I upload / edit my files?
- How to publish a website
Website Troubleshooting
Working on a website will eventually cause you to become familiar with error messages and techniques to troubleshoot problems you might encounter. You can see the articles for website errors in the Website Errors category.
- Is your website down?
- Are you getting an error message?
403 – 404 – 406 – 500 - Has your website been suspended?
- Need files restored from backup?
- Think your website has been hacked?
- Common Website Issues
SSL Certificates
If you’ll be accepting credit cards or other sensitive data on your website, you will want to secure it with SSL. You will want to provide secure connections between you and a customer. SSL certificates provide trust and can also help with your search engine rankings.
Domain Names
You can point your domains, add domains or create subdomains in your cPanel. Domain names are important because they are what identifies your website and what people will use to get to your internet location.
- DNS Changes: A – CNAME – Nameservers
- Main Domain Changes
- Adding a new domain
- Creating a Subdomain in cPanel
Databases
There are many things you can do with databases. You will see links to common database procedures. You will also be able to see the guides on many different types and topics databases.
Login Support
There are several ways to get logged into the cPanel interface that is used to manage your website with InMotion Hosting accounts. You will also become familiar with how to recover passwords from the different application interfaces.
Security
Security is extremely important when working on a website. You will need to become familiar with the different ways to secure your website and how privacy laws operate in different parts of the world. There are also guides for security in applications you may have used in the creation of your site.
- How to use PHP to Connect and Retrieve Data from MySQL
- How to Use phpMyAdmin To Optimize a Database
- How To Use The PHP Built-in Web Server
- How to use Winzip for File Compression
- How to use WordPress to Create a Photography Website
- How to View MariaDB Databases On Command Line
- How to view the source code of your website
- How to Zip and Unzip Files using Windows 7
- HTML Attributes: Using attributes in HTML tags
- HTML Tag Reference List
- HTML5 Video Player Elements
- I need a different version of PHP/MySQL
- Identify and block bad robots from website
- Images Loading Slowly
- Inefficient coding of your website
- InMotion Hosting Pre Website Transfer checklist
- Inserting Flash into HTML
- Inserting Images using HTML
- Install a Grav Theme
- Install APC for PHP
- Install Nextcloud on Managed VPS/Dedicated Hosting with the Web Installer
- Installing a theme in Zencart
- Installing phpMyAdmin on your Account
- Installing the Pick Up from Store Shipping Method
- Introduction to CSS
- Introduction to Memcached: server side data caching