All of our websites come with a powerful control panel that allows you to fully configure your site. Add/edit email accounts, manage your site's files and view your web stats are a few of the options available to you through the control panel.

Access your site's control panel by going to http://www.yoursite.com:2082 (replace the yoursite.com with your site's actual address). Then login with the username and password sent to you in your welcome letter.

Forgot your username or password? Click here to contact customer support to request that information.

With all our new domain registrations we offer a free 10mb of webspace for you to upload your website. Log in to your site's control panel (go to http://www.yoursite.com:2082) and click the 'file manager' icon. From there you will be able to upload files to your server. You may prefer to upload your files via FTP (see tutorial below), your login will just be your control panel username and password.

Don't have a website? Our team of professional web-designers can create one for you. You website is your online storefront and much like a traditional business must be professional and impressive in nature. Having a clean and elegant website will build customer trust.

Click here to contact us for information on website design pricing. Be sure to include if your site will be personal or corporate as well as any additional information (such as if you will be setting up an online store, or you want to use frontpage to edit your site).

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Once you have created the email account you desire to use via the site control panel you must configure your computer's email client. People usually prefer to use Outlook Express (now called Windows Mail in Microsoft Vista) because comes with most Windows platforms but the configuration is the same for all email clients.

You must setup Outlook to retrieve your mail from your domain's email server and download it to your computer. The common settings to do this are as follows:

Incoming Mail Server:	mail.yoursite.com
Outgoing Mail Server:	mail.yoursite.com
Username:	Your username is just your entire email address. For example: you@yoursite.com Some email clients have a problem with the '@' symbol in the username. If your email client doesn't work using the full email address as the username try replacing it with the '+' symbol. The format should be like this: (The email account name you setup in the site's control panel)+(your domain name) For example: If the email account is 'kevin' then the username you would enter would be kevin+yoursite.com (replacing yoursite.com with your actual domain name.
Password:	The password you chose when creating your account via your account control panel

Click here to view step by step instructions with illustrations for Outlook Express
Click here to view step by step instructions with illustrations for Outlook 2007

Anyone with an email account on your domain can access your domain's webmail server to check their email on the go! Just go to http://www.yourdomain.com:2095 (replace the yourdomain.com with your website's actual address) to access your webmail.

The time required for new domain registrations to "propagate" and become valid on the internet is usually only a few hours but can take as long as 24 - 36 hours. This is the time it takes for all the domain nameservers on the internet to fully recognize your new domain name and cannot be expedited by us in any way. The required propagation time is independent of the registrar you choose, propagation time is the same regardless.

Continue checking your newly registered domain name periodically to see if it is up yet. If you cannot access it 36 hours after registering contact customer support by clicking here.

FTP is like 'My Computer' for your website. It will allow you to login to your webspace and view the files on your webserver.

When you have created your web site you need a way to send those files and images to your webserver so they can be viewed when someone goes to www.yoursite.com.

This is where the FTP program comes in... it allows you to take the files on your computer's hard-drive and 'upload' them to your webserver.

Click here to view the full tutorial with illustrations.

Microsoft Publisher allows you to create an entire website in just a few hours. They provide templates that help your sites look attractive and functional.

Click here to view the full tutorial (with illustrations) on creating and uploading your website with Microsoft Publisher

Images taken with your digital camera may often be too large or not well suited for display on your website. This is why you must resize and compress your images to properly display them on your website so your website's visitors can view the images faster and easier.

Click here to view the full tutorial (with illustrations) on compressing and resizing your pictures

Our online stores feature a fully integrated and easy to use administration system. Easily view your orders, your customers, make changes to your store's preferences, and more via your store's administration panel.

Click here to view the full tutorial (with illustrations) on managing your online store

Sometimes the pictures you want to post in your gallery or use as images for your online store need to be cropped. This tutorial discusses how to crop your pictures using the powerful free Google image software Picasa.

Click here to view the full tutorial (with illustrations) on cropping your pictures