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Website statistics are crucial to ascertain the effectiveness of your website, and ensure your marketing efforts are rewarding your website with visitors and sales.
Website statistics provide information on the number and frequency of visitors to your website, how many pages each visitor looks at, which website they came from, what they typed into a search engine, and what operating system, web browser, screen resolution and color depth they are using.
This is an incredibly amount of valuable information, but each website will use varying amounts of the data depending on the nature of their business.
A personal website may be interested only in the number of visitors the website receives each day. A small business will also want to know what other websites are providing traffic, and what their visitors typed into a search engine. A larger business, or one that places a heavy emphasis on marketing, will want to know more about their visitors such as technical specifications about their computer (this tells them whether their visitors are predominantly experienced users, and if they own new computers).
Webalizer you are provided and runs on the web host’s server, and process raw log files. The raw files will tell you essential facts such as how many visitors your website is receiving, when it is most popular, and the top referrers.
Statistics are invaluable but also space intensive if you have a site that is being hit heavily. Within Joomla there are search Statistics which can be setup to also let you know what key words are search most frequently. |
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This is your main account page, where you can change your password, review your payment history and modify your personal information. |
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A 404 error page occurs when a visitor requests a page that does not exist. The web server has an error code designated to every possible muck-up that could occur; 404 happens to be the one that means “file not found”.
The problem is, 404 error pages tend to look ugly. Often, your web browser will take over and give you its own rendition (which usually tells you even less than the web server’s version!)
The solution? Create your own. Any HTML document (or dynamic page, for that matter) can be specified as your 404 error page. You can usually do this with one of two ways:
This is available through your CPanel.
When creating your 404 error page, make all file references absolute. That is, when you specify an image, use the full domain name (or path) in the SRC= attribute; when you link to another page, do the same. This is recommended because if a visitor requests a page that exists in a directory, the 404 error page will be loaded as if it resided in that directory, meaning images and links will be broken.
To specify the 404 error page using your web host’s control panel, consult their manual, or email tech support.
To specify the 404 error page using htaccess, do the following:
Create an htaccess file if you do not already have one (consult the htaccess section for help with this).
Add the following line:
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
Upload the htaccess file to the directory on your web server that contains your HTML files. Ensure it is named “.htaccess” (no extension).
The ErrorDocument command takes two parameters; the error number (in this case, “404”) and the filename (in this case, “/404.html”). You can even specify a PHP script if you’d like to do advanced things with your 404 error page, such as show a site map, perform a search, try to guess the correct page, or email you an error report.
Custom 404 error pages are essential for a professional website, especially one whose pages often change. When selecting a web hosting company, be sure to check they support this feature. |
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Redirects are used when you want to point a specific url or web page to another location. For example, you want your visitors to be redirected to DomainB.com/Order.HTML when they visit DomainA.Com/Sales.HTML. |
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Anonymous FTP means that a guest can use FTP (file transfer protocol) to access your website without a username or password.
This can be useful if your website procures any type of file from its visitors; for example, image libraries or articles. A visitor can use their FTP program of choice to upload files to a public area of your website.
Be sure to monitor any files that are uploaded to your website through anonymous FTP. Liability for illegal material will rest on your shoulder.
It is rare that an average website will need anonymous FTP access, so consider whether your website plans include this feature, and if not, don’t be concerned if a web host does not offer it. |
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A subdomain is a domain using your main domain and a prefix name. As an example, let's say our main domain is cpx3demo.com. We want to create a domain for our support department and direct visitors to a separate area on our web site. Our subdomain would use "support" as the prefix and "cpx3demo.com" as the main domain. The example of putting these two together are shown below:
EXAMPLE: support.cpx3demo.com
Consider a subdomain a url for any area on your web site. You can create the prefix as any name you want based on your own personal preferences |
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Parked Domains are really domain pointers that allow you to "point" or "park" domain names to your existing hosting account. For example, your main web site is DomainA.com, but you also have DomainB.com. cPanel allows you to "point" or "park" DomainB.com to your main domain or web hosting account at DomainA.com. |
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An Addon Domain is similar to a subdomain and created in much the same way. An Addon Domain has its own file path, location, and file set that can be used to store a web site, images, documents or anything you want. It is almost like having your own web space for a different domain, but is attached to your main user account. This allows for easier management of the Addon Domain by being integrating and available from your main user account's management system. |
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Fantastico is a commercial script library that automates the installation of web applications to a website. Fantastico scripts are executed from the administration area of a website control panel such as cPanel. Fantastico's web site claims that they are installed on ten thousand servers, with a million users worldwide, which would make it the leading product of its type. |
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Your website will come preconfigured with CPanel installed. CPanel is a web-based interface to your web hosting account features.
These are handy for both the simple management features of your web hosting account, such as configuring email addresses; as well as more advanced features, such as creating mailing lists or changing MX records.
cPanel is the most popular among web hosting companies, and allows you to customise the look-and-feel of the control panel using themes. |
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Once you subscribe to the hosting service your website will be up and usable 1 hour from the time of payment. As long as you have a valid domain name. |
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