Website Control Panel

Once you log in you will be presented with your web hosting control panel home page. From here you can access all the various tools and features to manage your website.

You can also quickly access details about your account (e.g. hosting package name, server type, and your FTP details) and how much of your account’s allowance you have used (web space, bandwidth, email accounts etc).

Files

We provide you with full access to upload and download your website’s files with our easy to use file manager.

To ensure you never lose any of your work, backing up and restoring your website is all done in just a few clicks with the files stored on your local machine.

Email

We offer one of the most powerful and flexible WebMail systems, features include your own address book, search features, customisable interface and scheduling.

You can also set up new mail boxes and delete any that you no longer need all in just a few clicks. In keeping with our ethos of giving you control you can decide how aggressive you want your junk filter to be and which email addresses it applies to on a box by box case or choose all emails attached to a domain name.  You can also add specific addresses to your white list and to your black list.

Web stats and logs

Check the performance and data usage of your website with our extensive analysis tools. 

We have also automated the creation of a Google Site Map for your website to increase the likelihood of being found by their spiders. So you don’t have to manually submit your site multiple times you can submit to the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft etc) from here with just a couple of clicks.

Web tools

The ‘Web Tools’ area provides you with access to a raft of great features for those with a bit more technical knowledge than the average user.

  • MySQL Databases: From this area you can also manage your database by using phpMyAdmin, an easy to use web based interface for managing MySQL databases.
  • Password Protection: Website Password Protection allows you to password protect a directory on your website. Only people who have the password will be able to access the area.
  • Scheduled Tasks: Scheduled tasks allows you to enable programs to run automatically on the server at specific intervals.
  • Sub domains: Have a new web address for separate areas of your website e.g. news.bbc.co.uk
  • IP Address blocking: IP blocking allows you to block certain IP addresses or ranges from accessing your website. For example, you may wish to prevent a competitor from viewing your site or a known threat.
  • Switch PHP Version: Switch to PHP5 with just one click

Ecommerce

Your web hosting is fully ecommerce enabled and comes packed with advanced ecommerce features and scripts.

You can provide your customer with a secure online shopping experience by using our free secure server (SSL) which allows you to accept data securely via your website. Choose from a collection of the most advanced ecommerce solutions available including Zen Shopping Cart, osCommerce Shopping Cart, CubeCart and Agora Shooping Cart.

CGI scripts

Our customers can choose to install as many scripts they want from one of the UKs most compressive list of one click install scripts.

WordPress is arguably the most popular blogging software available today! It’s easy to install and use and will allow you to have a great looking blog in minutes.

BuddyPress is a suite of WordPressMU social networking plugins and themes to empower you to create your own social network.
Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable open-source bulletin board package. phpBB3 has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ.
Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users easily to publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.

Openads is a hugely popular advert server designed for web publishers. It 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.

Manage your website on the go

100% free for all our customers  our iPhone control panel provides exactly the same level of functionality as the normal control panel, but optimized for internet enabled mobile phones.

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Website Builder Guide

Our Website Builder is a fully featured Website-building tool designed to let anyone create professional, multi-page Websites. It is both easy and powerful. Some hosting companies limit the number of pages you can publish – not us! You can create as many pages as you like and update them as often as you like.

 

Simple to use

Your website can be up and running in 5 easy steps:

1. Select your lay out and colour scheme

2. Enter your details and information for the search engines

3. Choose the topic of the page e.g. home page, about us, contact us etc.

4. Add your content

5. Click ‘Publish’!

Packed full of great features
Website Builder guides you step-by-step, providing simple choices regarding colour, style and images. There is no software to buy, and no code to learn. In addition, there is no need to use programs such as FTP or Telnet.

Content and Design Separation: The content of the website is stored separately from the layout. This way, you can completely change the look and feel of your website in six clicks of the mouse, without ever having to retype any information.

Complete Control over Colour Schemes: Website Builder includes a number of built-in colour combinations that look great with any layout. But if a user wants to add a little originality to their site, all the colours can be changed, either by using a point-and-click colour picker, or, for even more control, typing in the colour as a hex number.

On-The-Fly Image Generation: Website Builder dynamically generates the images it needs for each website design, so each time you decide to change the colour combination for a page, the layout, or just a button caption, the necessary image is automatically created. You need not ever bother with complex and expensive programs such as Photoshop to create Websites with clean and professional-looking graphics: our designers have already done it for you!

Variety of Pages: Website Builder can be used to make many different pages. You can create an online CV, or build a personal photo album. Everything is done in a simple step-by-step process that is easy to learn and to follow.

One-Click Publishing: Your website is published with one easy click. But even after publishing, you can go back and change it as much as you wish. Clicking the publish button again will instantly reflect all the changes on the “live” version of your site.

Autosave: All your information is saved the moment it is entered. If you decide to log out, you can come back and continue building your website from the very point from where you left off.

Over 200 templates to choose from!
There are plenty of pre-designed templates to choose from and it is completely free to use with your account.

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…Marketing Your Web Site

We have compiled a variety of documents to help you make the most of your 2and7 hosting account.  These are being constantly reviewed and added to, so please get in touch if there is a topic you would specifically like to be covered.

This particular guide provides some basic information on marketing your web site once completed.

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…Improving Your Web Site

We have compiled a variety of documents to help you make the most of your 2and7 hosting account.  These are being constantly reviewed and added to, so please get in touch if there is a topic you would specifically like to be covered.

This guide provides basic information on how to extend and improve your web site, making use of some of the free features included with all 2and7 hosting accounts.

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…Building Your Web Site

We have compiled a variety of documents to help you make the most of your 2and7 hosting account.  These are being constantly reviewed and added to, so please get in touch if there is a topic you would specifically like to be covered.

This guide looks at how to use HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to initially design and implement your web site.  These skills will be very useful in modifying some of the included web site templates which come with 2and7 hosting accounts.

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