Setting up your site is quick and easy. We provide a zip file with page templates for a complete and operational web hosting site which you can use out of the box or modify to suit your business.
The first step is to download the web site package (the Ready-Set-Go! Hosting Templates). You can find it at http://my.kangaweb.com/ in the Reseller Tasks section.
Once you have downloaded the file you should unzip it using your favorite archiver, for example, WinZip.
Now would also be a good time to browse the files in the package to get a feel for their content. The files will look very different when uploaded as some scripting will be executed when viewed, so it is a good idea to compare the files from the package with the online version at http://my.kangaweb.com/readysetgo/.
The Ready-Set-Go! Hosting Templates use a scripting language called PHP to dynamically generate your site. At the top of each file there is a section of PHP code which sets up the header of the page. This example is taken from index.php:
<?php
include ("config.php");
$page_title = "Welcome";
include ("header.php");?>
The first line tells the server to run this section as a script. The next line imports your settings from config.php (covered in the next section), and the one after it sets the page title. The final line draws the headers for your page (everything down to just after the left-hand menu). Please note that the order of these lines is important.
For each of the pages in the package you can change the title by editing the $page_title variable, but most of the time the defaults will be fine.
The first thing you should do is edit config.php to reflect information about your business. Open it up in your favorite plain text editor (for example, Notepad or Emacs) and change the variables to suit you.
The file header.php will be inserted at the top of each page in the package. You can quickly change the look and feel of all of your pages by editing just this file, although you may need to change footer.php as well to reflect your other changes.
If you have a title graphic that you would like to head each page,
change the <img> tag in header.php to
point to your custom graphic. Currently the file used is
images/stratus.gif.
This file also draws the site menu, so you can add or modify any menu items here.
footer.php complements header.php: it closes off all of the table tags created in the header. It also adds the right-hand highlights column of the site template.
You can change the colors and styles of your whole site by editing the file site.css - please see our document on Cascading Style Sheets for information on how to edit this file. You can find this at http://www.kangaweb.com/freereports/csstutorial.html.
The other PHP files in the package define each page of the site. Each can be changed to suit your needs, but most of the changes were made for you when you modified your config.php file. Throughout the files are strings like this: <?php print $busn_name;?> - this is a dynamic call to a variable in config.php. This particular one is replaced with your business name.
Before you go to the next step you should make sure you have changed your Terms and Conditions (in terms_body.php) to suit your business. Also the file specials.php has a generic special offer listed which you should change as it is unlikely to apply to you. If you are using Order Express, you may prefer to link to the Order Express terms_body.php file. This will save you from having to maintain two different copies of your terms and conditions. You can change this link in the config.php file.
Having modified your site to your needs, you should now upload it to the server. You can do this in the normal way described in our New Account Ready email (file-by-file using the Control Panel or FTP).
You will also need to remove the old index.html from your web directory as it will conflict with the index.php of this package.
Once your site is uploaded, pointing your browser to your site should show the Ready-Set-Go! Hosting Templates with all of your customizations.
As a last step to setting up your site, you should install our Order Express system. This will allow you to receive and process orders easily.
To install Order Express, please visit the Reseller Tasks Section at my.kangaweb.com. More information on Order Express is available in appendix C.