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: Web Design and Management, Website Troubleshooting, SSL Certificates, Domain Names, Databases, Login Support, Security.
Web Design and Management
There are many tools or applications that can be called web design or web management applications. 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?
- WordPress
- Dreamweaver
- Joomla
- Drupal
- How do I upload / edit my files?
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.
- SSL Guide
- What is SSL and why is it important?
- How do I obtain an SSL certificate?
- How does the shared SSL work?
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.
- Creating, Importing, and Exporting MySQL Databases
- Backup your database in cPanel
- How to Import a MySQL Database using phpMyAdmin
- Restore your database in cPanel
- How to create and attach a database user in cPanel
Login Support
There are several ways to get logged into the cPanel interface that is used to manage your website with WPS Hosting accounts. You will also become familiar with how to recover passwords from the different application interfaces.
- cPanel Login
- cPanel vs. AMP
- I forgot my cPanel password
- I forgot my AMP password
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.
- cPanel Security Advisor
- GDPR/Privacy Policy
- AMP 2FA
- WordPress Security
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- .htaccess Hack Cleanup
- “550 Invalid address” email error
- 21 Reasons Your Website is Slow and How to Speed it Up
- 308: Working with subpages in the Premium Website Builder
- 309: How to add a Facebook “Like” button in Premium Web Builder
- 311: Uploading and Linking files in the Premium Website Builder
- 312: How to create an image link in the Premium Website Builder
- 314: How to remove active pages from the Builder menu
- 315: Internet Explorer 10 Compatibility with the Premium Web Builder
- 316: How to enable the content editor toolbar in the builder
- 316: Working with error reporting in OpenCart 1.5
- 330: How to ban visitors by IP address in OpenCart 1.5x
- 331: Error with vQmod after upgrading to OpenCart 1.5.2
- 340: How to find your database name for OpenCart 1.5
- 403 Forbidden Error
- 406 Error – Not Acceptable
- 421 Too many connections
- 500 Error when using the User Manager after Upgrading to Joomla 2.5
- 500 Internal Server Error
