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Monday, April 26, 2010

Have a personal email

Having a personal email on your domain is a really smart way to make use of your web space! Your email address reveals your unique online identity to the your message recipient. Instead of having a meaningless ID on your yahoo mail like r_at123@yahoo.com, you may have an easily memorable address like support@siteground.com, mike_perry@yourdomain.com, or anything that shows who you really are to the email recipient.

Having a personal email is really essential for people who do business! It looks much more professional to send messages via your personal email (on your company's domain) when communicating with your business partners, sponsors, and clients.

Having a personal email is also a convenience. Unlike the Google and Yahoo emails, you will be able to reach your personal email both via webmail access and via convenient mail clients like Outlook express, MS Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, etc. Also, the email address you have on your domain name will not show any ads which lower the speed of your Internet connection and lose your time.

How to create a personal email account?

You may have your personal email address in less than 20 minutes! You only need to have email hosting space and a domain. Then, you may create your email account(s) from the control panel of your hosting account, or contact the SiteGround support team to create your personal email address.

To get detailed instructions on how to create and configure your personal email by yourself, please click below:

Have a personal email

Having a personal email on your domain is a really smart way to make use of your web space! Your email address reveals your unique online identity to the your message recipient. Instead of having a meaningless ID on your yahoo mail like r_at123@yahoo.com, you may have an easily memorable address like support@siteground.com, mike_perry@yourdomain.com, or anything that shows who you really are to the email recipient.

Having a personal email is really essential for people who do business! It looks much more professional to send messages via your personal email (on your company's domain) when communicating with your business partners, sponsors, and clients.

Having a personal email is also a convenience. Unlike the Google and Yahoo emails, you will be able to reach your personal email both via webmail access and via convenient mail clients like Outlook express, MS Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, etc. Also, the email address you have on your domain name will not show any ads which lower the speed of your Internet connection and lose your time.

How to create a personal email account?

You may have your personal email address in less than 20 minutes! You only need to have email hosting space and a domain. Then, you may create your email account(s) from the control panel of your hosting account, or contact the SiteGround support team to create your personal email address.

To get detailed instructions on how to create and configure your personal email by yourself, please click below:

Have a gallery on your website

If you like taking pictures with your camera, your website may be the perfect place to show them! With the help of gallery software on your website, you can quickly upload and conveniently arrange you pictures in albums.

Through your gallery on your website, you can easily make your photos accessible to friends from all over the world! Instead of attaching your photos one-at-a-time to email messages, you can simply give your friends a link (the URL of your website) and show them how wonderful your summer vacation was, how your baby is growing up, or how much fun you had at the last party.

How to create an online gallery?

It's actually very simple! There are lots of free gallery scripts that allow you to have a full-featured gallery on your website without any effort. You just download and install some files and your site is up and running! To make it even easier for you, SiteGround image hosting services include free gallery installation on your website.

To help you find the best gallery script for your website, we have featured the two most popular and user-friendly ones. Any of the two scripts is a powerful tool for uploading, organizing, and managing your photos online.

SiteGround also provides free tutorials to help you manage your gallery:

How to Create a Website - Tips and Ideas

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Nowadays having a website an effective way to share thoughts, promote your business or simply publish your photos online. Whether it will be a personal blog, forum or a family gallery creating a website has never been easier before! We at SiteGround have been working a lot to provide you with Tutorials, Templates, Knowledge Base Articles, Single-click Installers and much more! All this has made the creation and management of a website easy as pie! Start your website now, with SiteGround you will make sure yourself how easy it is!

  • You can create and manage your website using some of the free Open Source tools that are available.
  • You do not need to know anything about web development to start a new website.
  • All you need to do is open a hosting account where you can have a content management application installed and activated. Here at SiteGround we offer FREE installation of all quality web applications that you can use to create your website! You can start creating your site right away.

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Share your photos and videos on your website and make them easily accessible by people from all over the world!




Create a personal blog on your website to share your ideas and find new friends from all over the world!




Create a forum on your website to give and get help and exchange information with various people!




Stay at home, spend time with your family, be your own boss and .... make money through your website!




Use your website to help your community and popularize its activities and achievements in front of the world!




If your have relatives who live far away, make them feel part of the family through your website!




If you are really passionate about something, tell people about it and attract new fans for your hobby.




Exhibit your work on your website! Make your portfolio accessible on the net and attract sponsors and fans.




Having a personal email on your web space is important for people who do business!




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Create blog site with Drupal

Try Drupal! Get a FREE Drupal installation with SiteGround Drupal hosting Package!

Drupal is one of the best Open Source CMS tools in the web. It has been recently awarded the Overall 2007 Open Source CMS Award at the PacktPub Contest.

Drupal is written in PHP and requires a MySQL database, both of which are available with the SiteGround Drupal hosting services. Drupal basic installation can be easily turned into many different types of web pages - from simple web blogs to large online communities. Drupal includes features to enable content management systems, blogs, forums, newsletters, picture galleries, and more. Here we will explain the use of Drupal as a blog application.

Drupal installation

Please, visit the pages listed below to find detailed instructions how to install Drupal on your website with the help of the Fantastico auto-installation tool or via the web.

How to create a blog site with Drupal?

Once you have finished with the installation of Drupal, you should navigate to the web address, where the script is located and you will see the main page. First you should create your account:

Create blog - Create new account in Drupal

Once you have your password, you can log in the Administration area. There you can create content or edit your profile, manage your installation and more from the administer menu:

Create blog - Drupal Administration

To start using Drupal as a blog, you should first enable the blog module from Administer -> Modules. The following modules should be checked:

  • menu
  • node
  • path
  • page
  • statistics
  • story
  • taxonomy

Also you can download and install image module.

Drupal Settings

Then please go to Administer -> Settings and fill in the text boxes with the required information. This will help the Search egnines to easily crawl your blog site.

After that you should continue setting the access control in Administer -> Access control. Click on the roles tab. Create your own role. The rights you give here depend on how you use your site. In the beginning you can check the following options:

  • administer and create images
  • administer menu
  • access content and administer nodes
  • create pages and edit own page
  • create url aliases
  • access statistics
  • create and edit own stories
  • access administration pages
  • administer taxonomy

After that you should go to Administer -> users, click on the configure tab and choose "Only site administrators can create new user accounts". Click on the add user tab and create a user account you will blog with. Assign it the role you have created earlier.

Now it is time to navigate to Administer -> themes. Choose your desired theme and select the configure tab. Scroll down to "Display post information on" and uncheck the box next to "page".

In "Toggle display" make sure that "Site name", "Site slogan" and "Mission statement" are checked. With Drupal you can change the visualization of your site without changing the links to the content.

Creating Content

Now you should go to Administer -> content. There you should click on configure tab and then on content types. Click on "page". In the "Workflow" remove the check next to "Promoted to front page". Save and do the same for "story" as well.

This will set only story type content to be automatically promoted to the front page.

It is time to create content for your blog. Please, logout from the administrator's area and login with your newly created account. You can create content for your blog from create content link.

There you can add or edit a page or a story:

  • If you want to add a static page, like a contact page or an about page, use the page type.
  • Stories are articles in their simplest form: they have a title, a teaser and a body, but can be extended by other modules. The teaser is part of the body too. Stories may be used as a personal blog or for news articles.

Once you are done, you can go to your home page. There you will see that the default Drupal new site message is now gone and your post is placed.

Useful links:

Please, feel free to contact us if you have any questions or recommendations about this tutorial at: tutorials 'at' siteground.com

How to Create a Blog Site

Nowadays the most effective way to share your thoughts and opinion is to create your own weblog or, as it is most popular - blog. But how to start your own blog? Fortunately, starting a blog site is a really an easy task.

  • You can create and manage your blog site using some of the free Open Source blog tools that are available;
  • You do not need to know anything about web development to start blogging.
  • All you need to do is open a hosting account where you can have a blog application installed and activated. Here at SiteGround we offer FREE blog installation with our blog hosting package. You can start creating your site right away.
Sign Up for Blog Hosting

The easiest way to create a blog site is by using a ready-made blog tool.

  • The blog application has built-in functionality such as posting articles, HTML editor, commenting, archive, etc.
  • The most popular blog tools have a large supporting community. You will be able to find free themes for your blog and customize it the way you like.

Which blog application to use?

With the help of a blog application you needn't be a web designer or developer to share your thoughts with the world. In the following pages you will find brief instructions on how to build your own blog by using two of the most popular blog applications:

What's a blog?

There are different descriptions of that concept. According to most of the articles on the Internet 'blog' is short for 'weblog', a frequently updated publication of comments and thoughts on the web. Usually it is reflecting the views of the blog's creator. Blogs consist of text and images and are sorted by date. The newest information is on the top and there is an archive of the old one. People create blogs to share their thoughts with the world. A person writing in the journal is called a 'blogger'. Bloggers write about different topics: from the typical daily situations to the progress of some scientific researches. The readers also can leave comments and thus make the whole blog more interesting and useful.

History of the blog

Blogs are part of the World Wide Web since its creation. In the beginning they did not have a defined name, but their purpose was more or less the same as that of contemporary blogs. Here is a list of the first blogs:

  • Dawn of Internet: Tim Berners-Lee at CERN begins keeping a list of all new sites as they come online.
  • June 1993: NCSA's oldest archived 'What's New' list of sites.
  • June 1993: Netscape begins running it's 'What's New!' list of sites.
  • January 1994: Justin Hall launches Justin's Home Page which would become Links from the Underground.
  • April 1997: Dave Winer launches Scripting News.
  • December 1997: Jorn Barger coins the term 'weblog''.

Your blog site will be hosted with care at SiteGround because:

  • We have long experience with blog applications (such as WordPress);
  • Our servers are perfectly optimized for blogs;
  • We offer FREE installation of blog applications on your hosting account;
  • Our designers have prepared more than 60 WordPress themes;
  • We have detailed blog tutorials and blog hosting articles, which will help you easily manage your site;
  • Our blog hosting package is the best offer on the market - it has the lowest price for the quality and features it includes;

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For more information on how to create different type of websites, check our How to Create a Website tutorial.