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.

Choose from our huge range of one click install scripts to get your website online in just a few clicks of your mouse. Whether you are building a brochure website, ecommerce store, blog, forum, or even a social network, you will find software to create a professional looking site using the latest technology.

With our one click install software you don’t need to worry about Zip files, programming or setting up databases. All you have to do is click on the relevant icon and you are done. It is as easy as that!

Choose from our huge range of one click install scripts, ideal for any type of website…

Concrete5

Concrete5 is a powerful CMS built with every level of web design experience in mind. The easy to use WYSIWYG style editing features make it easy for site owners to make changes on the fly with no previous web design experience. The software is also perfect for web designers and developers looking for a purpose built CMS designed to be as flexible as you need it to be.

Concrete5 can be used for a wide range of sites, including personal and business websites, forums, communities, magazines, e-commerce solutions, photography showcases, galleries and much more.

WordPress

WordPress is the world’s most popular open source blogging platform, perfect for both commercial and personal use. Thanks to a massive community of designers and developers there are literally tens of thousands of themes, widgets and plugins available to download, meaning no two websites are ever the same.

WordPress can be easily adapted for use as a standard CMS (content management system), so even if you don’t need a blog, you can use WordPress to power your e-shop, photo gallery, video webpage, article-based site, directory or any other type of website you can think of.

Joomla

Joomla is a user-friendly content management system with a huge range of features ready to use. The software is database-driven and ideal for web masters looking to develop, manage and edit web content without much technical knowledge.

With a wide range of modules, components, plugins and languages available for free, you can customise and enhance your Joomla CMS to your specific requirements.

Drupal

Drupal is a highly customisable content management system with thousands of modules, themes and plugins to extend and alter its capabilities. Winner of multiple Open Source CMS awards Drupal is ideal for those wanting a versatile and expandable web content solution.

Drupal CMS can be used for a wide range of sites, including single and multiple user blogs, forums, communities, magazines, e-commerce solutions, photography showcases, galleries and much more.

phpBB

Create your online community using the market leading forum software. With an extensive community of designers and developers creating and sharing modifications and styles to customise your forum, you can create a unique forum quickly and easily.

bbPress

Using WordPress as its platform, bbPress is open source forum software focused on speed and security, meaning you don’t have to worry about slow loading pages or the risk of being hacked. The streamlined software is also lightweight and efficient for better use of space and bandwidth. bbPress enjoys many similar customisation elements to WordPress so you can develop and install themes and plugins (e.g. for ratings, video and private forums) to customise your forums.

OpenAds

OpenAds gives you the tools you need to make the most from online advertising. With OpenAds you will be able to manage sophisticated advertising programs and stay in control of all the advertising on your websites. You can also give your advertisers their own control panel where they can monitor the performance of their advertising.

Elgg

Elgg is an award-winning social networking engine, giving you the tools to create your own fully-featured social networks and applications. Elgg allows you to take full advantage of the power of social technology with elegant, flexible solutions for organisations, groups and individuals.

Other one click install software we offer include:

	Nucleus: The building blocks you need to create a 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.
	Geeklog: Allows you to create your own virtual community area, complete with user administration, story posting, messaging, comments, polls, calendar, weblinks, and more.
	SugarCRM: Lets a business keep track of its relationships with its customers. Users can manage customer accounts, contacts, sales leads, calls, meetings etc. A dashboard showing the most successful leads, the sales pipeline, and the month-by-month outcomes for opportunities in the pipeline can be displayed.
	MediaWiki: A collaborative technology for organising information on websites. Work with others to maintain information. For example if you run a business you can share information with your colleagues at the same time as documenting it for yourself.
	Mambo: fully featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.
	CMS made simple: Helps experienced web developers and designers to create sites of power and beauty in a fraction of the normal time.

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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

Often described as one big process, good search engine optimization involves a number of different steps.  The intricacies of these steps is what leads many website owners to hire professional SEO firms that claim to have the magic formula. Going it alone could seem very daunting and unrewarding even after months of hard work. If you truly want to get the most out of search engine optimization, the following mistakes must be avoided at all costs.

Watch Out for SEO Gurantee Scams

The web waters are infested with companies looking to bank off the prevalence of SEO.  These firms often guarantee services that will put you on the first page of Google in the number one spot.  What you should know is that no company can guarantee such rankings.  The fact that most of the top ranked sites report to having no dealings with SEO firms should be enough for you not to rely on such claims.

Cloaking

The term cloaking refers to a black hat search engine optimization (SEO) technique in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different to that presented to the user’s browser.

While this may seem like a viable strategy, cloaking should be avoided if you want to remain on favorable terms with the search engines.  It might have worked a few years ago, but today’s search engine’s are sophisticated enough to detect this and other unethical forms of SEO.

Multiple Search Engine Submissions

Contrary to popular belief, submitting your website to search engines regularly can be a mistake.  There are some companies that offer services utilizing special software that will automatically submit your site on a regular basis.  Don’t buy into this as it can actually get you penalized and hinder your efforts.

Don’t Overuse Flash and Rich Graphics

If at all possible, Flash is a technology you want to do without.  Though nice from a visual aspect, Flash can leave your site heavy and difficult to process, making it nearly impossible for search engine spiders to interpret.  The best technologies are integrated with HTML as this the language embraced by all search engines. Whenever you put important information in a graphic form make sure to have it a text version of it for the search engines to index.

Moving Too Fast

SEO is an ongoing process., not something you can do just once and put to the side.  Reaching a top search engine position in two days or even two weeks is virtually impossible.  So, even though an SEO firm may claim to get you there in a short amount of time, stay away from the these bogus claims and keep your money. Generally speaking, some changes can take less than a week to take effect, while many take 3-6 months or more for measurable changes to be observed.

These are the basic no-go principles of SEO. If you follow these simple guidelines you’ll save yourself from a lot of trouble and unnecessary expenses.

You can now setup your domain name to use Google Apps in just one click. Google Apps are a suite of free tools from Google that help you stay connected and be more productive, they include:

- Gmail – Fast, searchable email with less spam
- Google Talk – IM and call your friends through your computer
- Google Calendar – Organize your schedule and share events with friends
- Google Docs – Share online documents, presentations, and spreadsheets

To setup Google Apps for one of your domain names login to our control panel, click “Manage Domain Names”, select the domain you wish to update and then click “DNS Management”. On this page there is a new section called “Setting DNS for Google Apps”. Click the link in this section and all the settings will be made automatically for you.

To find out more about Google Apps visit: http://www.google.com/apps/