May 21st, 2011 
Daniel Hall 
Today we will be discussing the use of three different tools available in Fantastico in terms of Polls and Surveys. Feedback is very important, it doesn’t matter if you run a social blog or online shopping site – you would want the option to ask questions and run a poll on your site.
With any hosting package at Stallion Hosting you will have access to Fantastico which includes excellent tools used for various online requirements. The three tools used for Polls and Surveys are: (more…)
December 23rd, 2010 Daniel Hall 
Today I will be discussing the features of Discussion Boards, also known as Forums in the Fantastico tool of your cPanel hosting account. I am sure if you have been browsing the internet for a while you must of at least landed up on a forum or you may even be part of one or many? Forums are excellent tools and can actually be seen as one of the many advantages of the internet. Forums enable people to connect, whether they connect on a certain related topic or simply just to share jokes.
Creating or starting a forum can be an amazing opportunity and for this reason it is wonderful to have the simple and easy option of using Fantastico which includes two options of forum software highlighted below. Many people use forums on a daily basis for a range of topics, from receiving relationship advice to sharing and entering into discussions about politics. A forum should be seen as a community where people can talk and chat, not by verbal communication, but through messages posted on threads. (more…)
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Tags: cpanel hosting, Discussion Boards, Fantastico, forum 
No Comments » November 6th, 2010 Daniel Hall 
On to the second part of the Fantastico cPanel Hosting blogging series where we will be discussing the various Content Management Systems (CMSs) that are included in all of our Website Hosting Packages at Stallion Hosting. Content Management Systems are designed to help you and your business/community easily publish, manage and organize a variety of content and create a sort of news-based web portal. CMS’s allow end-users (know as authors) to provide new information to the website in the form of articles as well as other forms of content.
Content Management Systems use a concept of the workflow for the target users, which defines how the new content is to be routed around the system so that the user that requires that certain information is able to get to it. All this breaks down to a general definition of a CMS, which is: A (CMS) Content Management System is software that easily allows users to create, edit and manage web content. This is just one of the reasons why content management systems have become very popular amongst designers, developers and users across the globe. (more…)
Posted in Web Hosting Basics, Wordpress Tags: cms, content management systems, cpanel hosting, Fantastico No Comments » October 9th, 2010 Daniel Hall Fantastico is just that, fantastic! Most professional cPanel Hosting providers such as Stallion Hosting, will have Fantastico as part of their cPanel packages. Fantastico can be described as a 3rd-party cPanel add-on that adds a large number of scripts and packages that can be very useful to new and advanced website builders and web hosting users.
Fantastico allows you to quickly install a variety of open-source scripts simply by selecting a script and providing some basic information for each installation as well as the links to the source of the scripts, you can install a script within minutes. Fantastico is designed to be easy to use and it is especially designed to install the latest version of the scripts that are available keeping you up to date with the best developments. (more…)
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