Learn How To Setup And Operate Your Website With Our Collection Of Video
Tutorials
Don’t worry that you’re not entering the correct settings, or
understanding how a process works. Just click the link for the video
tutorial that relates to the area of your website you are working on and
we’ll walk you through the process.
- Listen as Michelle describes each step of the process
- Watch as Michelle shows you how each step is performed
- Follow along in a separate screen to make sure you perform each task
just as Michelle describes it
Support System
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Support Forums Introduction
- 8:13 min. — Learn how to register at the Watersweb
Shops Support forums and access the Premium Hosting Member forums.
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Helpdesk Introduction
- 14:26 min. — Learn how to use the Watersweb
Helpdesk effectively: Making sure you can access your tickets without an
email and communicating with our technicians
Shop Kit Plus
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Shop Kit Plus Introduction
- 5:41 min. — Basics of how the Shop Kit Plus works
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How To Join Mals Ecommerce
- 9:00 min. — Overview of how to join Mals Ecommerce,
the cart that plugs into your Shop Kit Plus, enabling you to accept
payment from customers, setup shipping and more.
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Setting Up The Alternate Paypal Integration
- 9:13 min. — If you are having trouble with Paypal
orders showing up in Mals and Paypal, but not in the Shop Kit Plus
storeadmin, this tutorial will show you how to verify your settings —
and use the alternate Paypal integration method of forcing Paypal orders
to go through properly.
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Easy Template Integration
- 15:02 min. — Michelle leads you through the process
of integrating a web site design into the Shop Kit Plus.
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Setting Up An Affiliate Program
- 15:27 min. — Walk through the process of setting up
an affiliate program, allocating affiliate commissions and paying
affiliates. Note: We also talk about a modification for creating
affiliate links to specific products on your site. Please instruct your
affiliates in how to edit your standard links to create product-specific
ones. You may even want to create some for your affiliates. If you have
any questions, post on Mals forum at
www.waterswebshops.com/forums.
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Adding A Page
- 19:43 min.How to add a new page to your Shop Kit
Plus, including how the specific settings work
- Adding A Category
- How to add a category to your Shop Kit Plus, including what each
setting means
- Adding A Product
- How to add a product, including extra variables, options, and more
- Setting A Default Item
- How to setup a default item to save you time when adding lots of
similar products
- Editing Your Site Settings
- What each site setting means and how to use it
- Editing Your Catalog Setup
- How to change the options in your Catalog Setup to improve the
function of your Shop Kit Plus
General Hosting
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Setting Up Your Email On The Server
- 9:37 min. — How to setup a new email account in
cPanel
- Setting Up Your Email In Outlook
- How to setup your new email account so that you can download your
messages directly to Outlook
- Viewing Your Web/FTP Stats
- How to find and interprete your Web/FTP statistics
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Setting Up An Autoresponder
- How to setup an autoresponder in cPanel
- Forwarding Your Email
- How to forward email sent from one address to another
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Backing Up Your Site
- How to create a backup of your website
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Creating An Addon Domain
- How to add a domain name to your website that will point to a
specific
folder on your hosting account
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Creating A Default (Catchall) Email Account
- Create a new account where all email going to an address other than
your
POP accounts or forwarders
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Creating A Subdomain
- How to add a subdomain to your hosting account
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Creating A Custom Error Page
- How to add a page to your site that your visitors will land on if
their
link doesn't work
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Password Protecting A Directory
- How to protect a directory with a password
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Creating A MySQL Database
- How to add a database to your site
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Managing A MySQL Database In PHPMyAdmin
- How to manage your database from within cPanel
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Installing Frontpage Extensions
- How to install FrontPage extensions, so you can sites build in
FrontPage
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Using File Manager
- How to use the cPanel File Manager to upload and edit files
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Using Index Manager
- Indexes are set to "off" by default to protect your directory
privacy
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Enabling Hotlink Protection
- Protect your images from theft
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Redirecting A URL
- Redirects allow you to make a specific web page redirect to another
page
and display the contents of that page
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Redirecting Mail
- Forwarders allow you to send a copy of all mail from one email
address
to another (Michelle's Note: Make sure you you do NOT setup a POP
account for any email account that you want to forward)
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Changing Control Panel Password
- If you're using the Shop Kit Plus, make sure you change the FTP
password
in your configuration file. Or submit a ticket to the
helpdesk asking our SKP
technicians for help.
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Creating An FTP Account
- FTP Accounts allow you to access your web site's files through a
protocol called FTP (Michelle's Note: You already have one default
FTP
account setup that will allow you FTP access to your entire public_html
directory)
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Accessing Webmail
- Webmail allows you to check your email from a web browser as opposed
to
a desktop mail application such as Outlook Express or Thunderbird (Michelle's
Note: I only recommend webmail for short time spans when you have no
access
to your main computer. Email stored on the server takes up your web
space)
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Updating Your Contact Info
- Setup the email address at which you will receive disk quota and
bandwidth limit warnings
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Configuring Email Filters
- You can configure filters here, but we recommend using Mailscanner
instead
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Using Web Disk
- This feature is only available on those accounts with the x3 version
of
cPanel.
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Using IP Deny Manager
- This feature will allow you to block a range of IP addresses to
prevent
them from accessing your site
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Parking A Domain
- Parked Domains (Domain pointers) allow you to "point" or "park"
additional domain names to your existing hosting account
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Creating Cron Jobs
- Cron jobs allow you to automate certain commands or scripts on your
site
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