
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.
- Using MySQLi to INSERT Data into a Database
- Using the php Include Function to Reuse Code
- Creating a Simple HTML Form to Get User Comments
- Setting up a Database to Handle Form Data
- Setting up Weight Based Shipping
- How to upgrade Zen Cart
- An Introduction to gzip / mod_deflate
- Setting up Flat Rate Shipping for Testing Purposes
- Setting up a Remote MySQL Database Connection
- Connecting to a Database using PHP
- My Account has been moved to another server
- Setting up a Gravatar
- How to allow your IP Address in the CSF Firewall (for SSH access)
- What is suPHP?
- Publishing your website using KompoZer
- How can I make my php.ini file recursive ?
- Using Server Side Includes with HTML Files
- What is the path to sendmail?
- Server Side Includes: An Introduction
- How to Download the PHPMailer
- Introduction to Memcached: server side data caching
- How to Use the .htaccess File
- Using a META tag to block bots from indexing a webpage
- What is Captcha?
- Do you support Mod_Rewrite?
- Installing phpMyAdmin on Your Server
- How to Check and Repair a Database in phpMyAdmin
- How to add a Favicon for your Website
- What is CGI?
- How to Connect a Database to Python
- What Is My Hostname?
- What Version of ______ am I Running?
- What are Core Dumps?
- What is IonCube?
- Restrict access with .htaccess and the IP Blocker
- Effective Use of Links
- Optimizing your Site for your Visitors
- Using CSS in your Website
- Using External, Internal CSS Stylesheets and Inline Styles
- Introduction to CSS
- Creating a Contact Form with FormMail
- How Contact Forms Work
- Advantages of using a Contact Form
- How to Embed a Video on a Webpage
- How to add a Video Link to your Website
- Anchor Links and How to Create Them
- Opening a new window with a link
- Using the Anchor Tag to Create Links
- How to make an Image a Link
- Inserting Images using HTML
- Bullet Points and Numbered Lists Explained
- HTML Attributes: Using attributes in HTML tags
- Understanding Basic HTML Tags
- Find the Document Root of your Website
- How to Modify Your hosts File Using Windows
- Images Loading Slowly
- Common Website Issues
- How to Manually Install PHP Software
- Creating, Importing, and Exporting MySQL Databases