Quick Tour for Web Hosting Newbies

There are many applications to choose from, when starting a new website. To make it easier for you we have selected some of the most frequently used tools suitable for the specific kind of website you want to create.

The following table gives you a quick overview of the scripts/applications you might use for your website:

The easy-to-use Zen SiteBuilder is created especially for people, who want to have a good-looking website immediately and have little or no web design knowledge. The SiteBuilder offers a choice of more than 180 templates and plenty of page types to choose from - home page, photo gallery, product gallery, contact page, etc. With the SiteBuilder you can easily build both your personal website and/or your simple online shop. You can access it from the My Account Section of your Customer Area.

Learn more about the SiteGround SiteBuilder and how to use it from the detailed Getting started tutorial.

SiteGround offers easy installation of blogs, CMS, ets. Each account comes with Fantastico - one of the most popular tools for a quick and easy installation of an application. Thanks to it, you can install blogs, forums, CMS and many other applications within a few mouse clicks. All you need is to follow the instructions displayed during the installation process.

SiteGround offers you detailed installation guides for some of the most popular applications included in Fantastico: Joomla, Mambo, Drupal, Moodle, phpNuke, PhpBB, SMF, osCommerce, Zen Cart, WordPress, Coppermine, Gallery 2, etc. To check them, visit the Most popular Fantastico De Luxe scripts/applications guidelines from the detailed Getting started tutorial.

The SiteGround Technical Support Team would gladly assist you with the installation of any of the Fantastico as well as non-Fantastico script/application we are compatible with on your hosting account. Most popular non Fantastico De Luxe scripts/applications are Sugar CRM, vTiger CRM, MediaWiki. To request manual script/application installation, follow the manual script/application installation guidelines.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the most popular way for uploading files on a hosting account. There are two main ways to upload trough FTP: through a standard Web browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, etc.) or through a dedicated FTP software program, referred to as an 'FTP Client'. You can find your FTP login details in your Customer Area -> My Account Section section.

To start uploading files through FTP, check our FTP upload guidelines.

Any application that is locally installed on your harddrive and is used for uploading files on you account usually requires a username and password. Those are the username and password for the cPanel, with which you can manage your SiteGround hosting account. They are the same as the one that has been sent to you within the Welcome email after you purchased your account with us.

If you do not remember your password you can easily reset it by pressing Change Password. More about your username and password for uploading.