Content Management Systems (CMS) are great tools for maximising the full potential of your web hosting.  This blog post will look at the various web hosting scripts and web hosting tools we provide at Websoftnet with your web hosting to help you simplify your web publishing. We have included the blogging scripts that come free with our web hosting as the line between the two is becoming increasingly blurred.

WordPress
WordPress is arguably the most popular blogging software available today! It’s easy to install and use with our web hosting one click install script and will allow you to have a great looking blog in minutes. WordPress is the most popular blog software in use today

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. Ready to be installed in your web hosting control panel, Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

Mambo
Mambo is a fully featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.

Geeklog
Geeklog allows you to create your own virtual community area, complete with user administration, story posting, messaging, comments, polls, calendar, web links, and more

Nucleus
Nucleus offers you the building blocks when you need your web hosting to create a memorable web presence. Whether you want to create a personal blog, a family page, or an online business site, Nucleus CMS can help you achieve your goals.

Drupal
Drupal is a free and open source content management system (CMS) that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website through their web hosting control panel. Drupal is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

Typo3
TYPO3 is a 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. Using a graphical user interface which interacts with your web hosting, authors can simply create text, insert images and multimedia files, schedule content (and much more) to build and maintain a dynamic website. This is especially true if you take advantage of TYPO3’s server-side graphics generation for making image menus, graphical headlines, etc.

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Building a website that looks pretty good and has working (and secure) scripts can be a strenuous task. Below is a list of resources for you to take advantage of if you need an element for your website but creating it yourself is beyond your skill set.

Edit content with minimal knowledge of HTML

If you are a Websoftnet Premium web hosting customer you can install Content Management Systems (CMS) such as WordPress (yes its officially for blogs but it is being used more and more as a CMS), Joomla, Drupal or Mambo with just one click. Once these are set up you need never edit an HTML file again (although you can if you still want to!). To get started log in to your eXtend web hosting control panel.

Create attractive looking website without HTML/ CSS or Illustrator

I can hold a paint brush but that doesn’t mean I can paint and just because you know how to use the software that doesn’t mean you can design a beautiful website. To get yourself started or even to use it as it is “out of the box” here are some great websites to download readymade designs. Some are free, others require payment.

• http://www.onedollartemplates.com/
• http://www.freecsstemplates.org/
• http://www.free-css.com/
• http://www.woothemes.com (WordPress themes)
• http://www.styleshout.com/
• http://www.rockettheme.com/ (Joomla templates plus WordPress themes)
• http://joomla2u.net/ (Joomla templates)
• http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ (free WordPress themes)

Edit images without Photoshop

Admittedly you’ll never be able to hit the dizzy heights of those that can use the likes of Photoshop but you don’t need to for most sites. Being able to rotate, re-size and crop an image is enough for the majority of editing requirements and you can do it all online with these programs:

• http://www.picnik.com/
• http://pixlr.com/
• http://fotoflexer.com/
• http://aviary.com/

Deploying scripts without understanding the code

It may sound odd that anyone could so this, but as the majority of free scripts come with nice clear step by step installation instructions, with only a little bit of knowledge you can add advanced scripts to your site quickly and relatively easily. For example, if faced with a blank text editor I wouldn’t be able to write a secure “contact us” form, but I can certainly copy & paste one in to my site or click ‘install’ on a WordPress plug-in!

• http://www.hotscripts.com/
• http://www.phpjunkyard.com/
• http://www.codango.com
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ (WordPress plug-ins)
• http://extensions.joomla.org/ (Joomla extensions)

Still not enough? if you don’t want to have to do any of the work, you can always buy a readymade website: http://flippa.com

We have updated some of the scripts that you can install from the eXtend Control Panel:

AWStats Statistics - v6.8 upgraded to v6.9
Nucleus Webblog - v3.32 upgraded to v3.33
CubeCart Shopping Cart – v3.0.17 upgraded to v3.0.18
Drupal CMS - v6.4 upgraded to v6.9
phpBB3 Forum - v3..0.2 upgraded to v3.0.4
Joomla CMS – v1.5.8 upgraded to v1.5.9
Locked Area Lite – v6.0 upgraded to v6.4
MediaWiki – v1.13.1 upgraded to v1.13.3
Openads – v2.6.0 upgraded to v2.6.3
PHPCoin – v1.4.4 upgraded to v1.5.1
Roundcube Webmail – v0.2 alpha upgraded to v0.2 stable

Why not login to your control panel now and try and some of the updates today!