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Setting up a website - where do I start?

Our feature packed hosting is suitable for everyone, from the complete novice to the seasoned professional. Whether you're a complete beginner or not, please read on to find out the various ways you can setup your website.

Included with all of our paid hosting plans are a range of easy to use tools to help you build your website.

 
   
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Creating your website

Four different ways to create and edit your website:

 
       
 
Fantastico
Fantastico is an auto-installer program which gives you the ability to easily install over 40 open source PHP scripts. Most of the installations can be completed in 3 mouse clicks with minimal information provided.

Fantastico comes as standard with all of our paid hosting packages. Some of the scripts may require that you purchase a license to remove copyright information but all are free to use.

All of PHP scripts included in the Fantastico installer are listed below.

       
  Blogs    
  b2evolution
A blog script featuring multiple blogs, categories/sub-categories, skins, search function, multiple languages, search engines friendly URLs.
Homepage: http://b2evolution.net/

 
  Nucleus
A powerful blog script featuring multiple blogs, multiple authors, drafts and future posts, bookmarklets.
Homepage: http://nucleuscms.org/

 
  pMachine Free
This is a features limited version of pMachinePro.
Homepage: http://www.pmachine.com/

 
  WordPress
WordPress is a personal publishing tool with focus on aesthetics and featuring cross-blog tool, password protected posts, importing, typographical niceties, multiple authors, bookmarklets.
Homepage:
http://wordpress.org/

 
       
  Content Management    
  Drupal
An advanced portal with collaborative book, search engines friendly URLs, online help, roles, full content search, site watching, threaded comments, version control, blogging, news aggregator.
Homepage: http://drupal.org/

 
  Geeklog
A portal system with a wide range of modules.
Homepage: http://www.geeklog.net/

 
  Joomla
Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
Homepage:http://www.joomla.org/

 
 
Mambo Open Source
A professional level yet easy to use Content Management System featuring inline WYSIWYG content editors, newsfeeds, syndicated news, banners, mailing users, links manager, statistics, content archiving, date based content, 20 languages, modules and components.
Homepage:
http://www.mambo-foundation.org/

 
  PHP-Nuke
One of the most popular community-based portals with a big choice of modules and languages.
Homepage: http://www.phpnuke.org/

 
  phpWCMS
phpWCMS is perfect for professional, public and private users. It is very easy to learn and gives you the flexibility to separate layout and content. Lots of powerful but simple implemented features assists publishers and web developers too.
Homepage: http://www.phpwcms.de/

 
 
phpWebSite
Very powerful Content Management System with document manager, announcements, menu manager, photo album, block maker, FAQ, web pages maker, polls, information categorizer, calendar, link manager, form generator.
Homepage: http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/


 
  postnuke
A Content Management System with focus on flexibility and security. A big variety of modules and blocks makes this CMS an allround tool.
Homepage: http://www.postnuke.com/

 
  Siteframe
A straightforward content-management system designed for rapid deployment of community-based websites. Nice-looking templates, oriented toward document-sharing, clean interface.
Homepage: http://siteframe.org/

 
  TYPO3
TYPO3 is a free Open Source content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendability while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules.
Homepage: http://www.typo3.com/

 
  Xoops
A very popular advanced portal system.
Homepage: http://www.xoops.org/

 
       
  Customer Relationship    
  Crafty Syntax Live Help
A Live Help chat system featuring monitor your visitors, proactively open a chat session, multiple chat sessions, referer tracking, page view tracking, multiple operators, canned responses/images/URLs, multiple departments each with different icons, leave a message.
Homepage: http://www.craftysyntax.com/

 
  Help Center Live
Very powerful all-in-one help center including Live Help, Support Tickets and FAQ. Features include unlimited operators/departments, monitor visitors, initiate chat, collect visitor's information, track visitor's footprint, autosave chat transcripts, canned messages, leave a message, auto-assign tickets to operators, unlimited FAQ topics.
Homepage: http://www.helpcenterlive.com/
 
 
A Support Tickets system featuring email piping, pop3 login, unlimited email addresses, admin/staff/user panels, avoid autoresponder loops, limit maximun tickets user can have opened, accept attachments and limit size, pager alerts for admin.
Homepage: http://www.osticket.com/server/

 
 

PerlDesk
PerlDesk is a feature packed browser based help desk and email management application designed to streamline the operation of managing emails, support tickets and customer comminications, with built in tracking and response logging it is an ideal help desk solution for companies with one or more members of staff or for those who want to organise client communications.
Homepage: http://www.perldesk.com/

 
  PHP Support Tickets
A simple, one-admin Support Tickets system featuring self-registering, emailing to admin, attachments.
Homepage: http://www.phpsupporttickets.com/

 
  Support Logic Helpdesk
A Support Tickets system featuring multiple email addresses, admin/staff/user panels, canned responses, HTML tags support, email limit on a per user/day basis, attachments.
Homepage:
http://www.support-logic.com/index.php

 
       
       
  Discussion Boards (Forums)    
  phpBB2
A widely-popular open-source bulletin-board package, works well, simple user interface and admin panel, clean look, scales well, and can be customized.
Homepage: http://www.phpbb.com/

 
  SMF
Elegant. Effective. Powerful. Free. SMF is all of the above. SMF is a next-generation community software package and is jam-packed with features, while at the same time having a minimal impact on resources.
Homepage: http://www.simplemachines.org/

 
       
  E-Commerce / Online Shops    
 

CubeCart
An easy to use yet powerful shopping cart featuring unlimited categories and products, multiple payment gateways, downloadable products. The design is very easy to modify.
Homepage: http://www.cubecart.com/

 
  OSCommerce
A power-user shopping cart with a big variety of modules and support of almost every payment gateway. A big developers community is ready to offer custom solutions depending on your needs.
Homepage: http://oscommerce.com/

  Zen Cart
Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; a free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart system. The software is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think e-commerce could be and should be done differently.
Homepage: http://www.zen-cart.com/

 
   
  FAQ Manager
  FAQMasterFlex
Unlimited categories/questions/answers, web-based administration.
Homepage: http://www.technetguru.net/design/faqmasterflex.php

 
   
  Guest Book
  VIPER Guestbook
The ViPER Guestbook is a high end guestbook script that is versatile, reliable, very comfortable and easy to use. The perfect choice for the ambitious webmaster !
Homepage: http://www.vipergb.de.vu/

 
   
  Hosting / Billing
  AccountLab Plus
AccountLab can lookup over 180 TLD's, have unlimited hosting plans, offer monthly, quarterly, six monthly and yearly payment options, handle tax. AccountLab works with PayPal, WorldPay (FuturePay), NoChex, 2checkout and offline payments such as checks or bank transfer.
Homepage: http://www.netenberg.com/accountlabplus.php

 
  phpCOIN
A full billing/invoicing application, perfect for webhosting resellers.
Homepage: http://www.phpcoin.com/

 
   
  Photo Galleries
  4Images Gallery
An Image Gallery system featuring unlimited categories/subcategories, web-based and FTP images upload, auto-thumbnails, comments, send a picture, rate a picture, random pictures, extensive administration panel.
Homepage: http://www.4homepages.de/

 
  Coppermine Photo Gallery
An Image Gallery system featuring categories and albums, thumbnails and intermediate size pics, search feature, new and random pictures, user management (private galleries, groups), user comments, e-cards feature, slideshow viewer.
Homepage: http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/

 
  Gallery
An Image Gallery system featuring albums within albums, thumbnailing specific picture area, captions, rotate, reorder pictures, album-based attributes, album mirroring.
Homepage: http://gallery.menalto.com/

 
   
  Mailing Lists
  phpList
A powerful mailing list featuring multiple mailing lists and attachments.
Homepage: http://www.tincan.co.uk/

 
   
  Polls and Surveys
  phpESP
PhpESP is an effective, capable, web-based survey application that enables businesses to create complex and advanced surveys, view results in real time, and carry out advanced analysis.
Homepage: http://phpesp.sourceforge.net/

 
  PHP Surveyor
Develop, publish and collect responses to surveys. Display surveys as single questions, group by group or all in one page or use a dataentry system for administration of paper-based versions of the survey. PHP Surveyor can produce 'branching' surveys (set conditions on whether individual questions will display), can vary the look and feel of your survey through a templating system, and can provide basic statistical analysis of your survey results.
Homepage: http://www.phpsurveyor.org/

 
   
  Project Management
  dotProject.net
Project Management featuring companies, projects, tasks (with Gantt charts), forums, files, calendar, contacts, tickets/helpdesk, language support, user/module permissions, themes.
Homepage: http://www.dotproject.net/

 
  PHPProjekt
Project Management featuring optional group system, privileges, calendar, contacts, time card, projects, chat, forum, request tracker, mail client, files, notes, bookmarks, to-do list, reminder, voting, language support.
Homepage: http://www.phprojekt.com/
 
   
  Site Builders
  Soholaunch Pro Edition
From basic, informational websites to robust e-business applications, this script vastly simplifies the creation and management of cutting-edge internet solutions. It installs at the end-users web site and empowers novices and seasoned developers alike with a streamlined development and management process unmatched by any other software product.
Homepage: http://www.soholaunch.com/ ~

 
  Templates Express
Use Templates Express to install static templates to your website. You will need to use FTP and edit the html files, replacing the default text with your own text. Standard information like title, name, address and similar will be collected during installation and placed into the installed template in the appropriate locations.

 
   
  Wiki
 

TikiWiki
TikiWiki is designed to be an international, clean and extensible Content Management System and Groupware that can be used to create all sorts of web applications, sites, portals, intranets and extranets. TikiWiki also works great as a web-based collaboration tool. TikiWiki has a lot of native options and sections that you can enable/disable as you need them.
Homepage:
http://www.tikiwiki.org/

 
 

phpWiki
PhpWiki is a web site where anyone can edit the pages through an HTML form. Linking is done automatically on the server side; all pages are stored in a database.
Homepage:
http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/

 
   
  Other Scripts
  Dew-NewPHPLinks
A Link Directory featuring categories, reviews, popular links, new links, links approval.
Homepage: http://www.dew-code.com/

 
  Moodle
A course management system designed to help educators create quality online courses. Available in 34 languages and features a WYSIWYG HTML editor. The teacher has full control over all settings for a course. There is a flexible array of course activities (Forums, Journals, Quizzes, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments, Chats, Workshops), user logging and tracking, mail integration and much more.
Homepage:
http://moodle.org/
 
  Noah's Classifieds
A classifieds system featuring categories and subcategories in unlimited depth, image upload for categories and classifieds, variable fields per categories, customizable email notifications, locking categories, classifieds approval, auto-thumbnail generation, classifieds management by user, send classified to a friend.
Homepage:
http://classifieds.phpoutsourcing.com/

 
  Open-Realty
Real Estate listing system featuring attachments, flexible search, template system, Yahoo Maps interface.
Homepage:
http://www.open-realty.org/

 
  PHP Auction
The GPL version of PHPauction featuring email notification of bids, attachments, reserve price, minimum bids, standard and dutch auctions, bid history, send auction to a friend, highest bids, auctions ending soon.
Homepage: http://www.phpauction.org/

 
  phpFormGenerator
A form generator featuring up to 100 form fields, all kind of input fields incl. file upload, customizable fields attributes, send submitted data to an email address or store them in a database, admin panel.
Homepage: http://phpformgen.sourceforge.net/

   
 

WebCalender
A very powerful webcalendar featuring private and public calendars.
Homepage: http://webcalendar.sourceforge.net/

   
     
   
   
     
  Comes with 5
email addresses.
Ideal for your
first website.
 
 
     
 

Includes 10 email addresses, perfect
for a small business.

 
 
     
 

Includes 25 email
addresses, suited
to a busy website
with lots of traffic.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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