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dbCanvas Website Builder makes building a web site easy by delivering a sensible platform that has all of the features you need at a low cost. The Site Builder system combines your hosting, content management, skin management, website builder and search engine optimization into 1 great package.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Monthly Cost
Price shown is the monthly fee; there is also a 1-time setup fee of $10. Texas residents are subject to sales tax. A yearly term is available at a 10% discount.
Pricing Information PageStorage Space
Website storage space in megabytes. Space upgrades can be purchased at any time.
Data Transfer
Monthly bandwidth allowance. Upgrades can be purchased, although most sites will never use this much.
Email Accounts
Email accounts can be accessed by both pop3 and web mail. Additional accounts can be purchased at any time. Even though you have a limited number of mailboxes, you can still create unlimited email aliases.
Learn more about Email Aliases
Email Aliases Users GuideEmail Spam Filtering
Emails for your domain will be scanned for Spam. This system is highly configurable, you can even turn it off if you like. The management interface allows you to adjust how hard your site is on Spam. Whitelist management is also included to you can keep certain addresses from being scanned.
Mail Server Settings
Anti Spam PageStatic IP
All websites come with dedicated IP Address. This allows you to point as many domains as you like at your IP. It also means that you do not share your IP address with other web sites.
SSL
SSL encryption keeps your connection protected while you edit your site. All sites come with an unsigned certificate by default. Use the unsigned certificate for your personal use or install a signed certificate to do E-commerce.
SSL Users Guide
SSL Certificates starting at $89PHP 4
A widely used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
FTP / FTPS
File Transport Protocol, for uploading larger files. Our ftp server also supports Secure FTP connections with SSL/Auth TLS.
dbCanvas CMS
Update your website from anywhere on the net using the dbCanvas Content Management System. Add new pages and publish content with ease. Keep your websites information as up to date as possible with instant access.
About the dbCanvas CMS
Search Engine Optimization
Multi-user Environment
Give others access to edit your website. Set permissions so that users can edit only the pages you want. You can also control a users access to the backend programs.
Site Image Library
Upload images to your site from your desktop. dbCanvas also has support for resizing jpeg and png images.
Site Map
Add and delete pages from your site with the Site Map. Your new pages are created instantly, the linkbars will dynamically change their links.
Skin Editor
Import/Export skins in just seconds with great ease. Build new skins or copy existing skins, test your skins across your site before going live with them. Customize your sites layout panels as well, add new layout panels to give greater editing ease to your site.
Your site will come with a generic skin. You can use that skin for as long as you need or until you have yours designed.
Sample Skins
Team dbCanvas Design
Event Scheduler
Schedule scripts to run at certain times with our crontab web interface. Useful for weekly emailings and other script automation.
SSL Management
Update your SSL certificate whenever you need, no waiting around for your hosting provider. Generate certificate requests, even create self signed certificates.
SSL Users Guide
SSL Certificates starting at $89Startup Scripts
Set scripts to be run before any page on your site loads. Useful for fancy skin manipulation, integrating additional security measures or URL redirection.
URL to Script Redirection
Seamlessly redirect incoming URLs to internal scripts.
Email Aliases
Control your domains email routing with unlimited Email Aliases.
For example, you could create
user@yourdomain.com
and redirect it to someone@differentdomain.com
Learn more about Email Aliases
Email Aliases Users GuideTraffic Stats
Graphical traffic stats output by Webalizer. Stay on top of your sites traffic trends.
The WebalizerMySQL Admin
Your site will use the phpMyAdmin interface to administrate your MySQL Database. Perform queries, export data or build new databases with MySQL Admin.
Learn more about phpMyAdminosCommerce Shopping Cart
osCommerce is a powerful open source shopping cart. Highly configurable, this cart will be able to handle just about any task you need it to! With tons of free user contributions you can add a lot of features with out spending a lot of money.
osCommerce Shopping Cart
SSL Users Guide
SSL Certificates starting at $89Calendar Admin
Create calendars and publish them on your website with just a few clicks. Use multiple calendars for either public or private use.
Calendar PublishingImage Gallery
Create Image Galleries and upload your pictures with ease. Publish your Galleries anywhere on your site, they can display in both slide show and per page formats.
Image Gallery PublishingBanner Admin
Manage your banner advertisements. Control the banners on your site, it even sends your clients weekly ad click reports.
phpAdsNew Banner AdminFaq Man
Create FAQs and other online documents easily. Publish Faq Man documents anywhere on your site with just a few clicks. Supports document searching as well as dynamic Adobe PDF export.
FAQ ManMail List Manager
Create and manage mail lists from your website. Send emails to your lists through a web interface. Automatic online signup and removal. Images are embedded directly into emails rather than being sent as links.
Mail List ManagerVideo Player
Stream Video files from your site using Windows Media Player or Macromedia Flash. Simply upload your video files, publishing them is made easy with the dbCanvas CMS.
Video PlayerMP3 Player
Stream mp3 files from your site using Windows Media Player or Macromedia Flash. Simply upload your audio files to the site, publishing is made is with the dbCanvas CMS.
MP3 Playerht://Dig
htDig is a powerful Website search engine. Allows people to search your website for specific terms. This is the same search engine used on this website.
htDig Site Search EngineGuestbook
Let your visitors leave comments for your site on the Guestbook. Great protection against spammers is included. Your site will send you an email whenever someone signs the book so you can approve each entry.
More about the GuestbookRSS Newsroom
The RSS Newsroom allows your to create and publish RSS Feeds. Create articles easily with the dbCanvas CMS. Others can easily publish your RSS feeds on their site using RSS or Javascript.
More about the RSS Newsroom
Website Builder
The dbCanvas Website Builder is on the cutting edge of its industry. This Website Builder is integrates your websites assets to make publishing easy. The Website builder comes with all dbCanvas packages.
Web Site Builder
On todays Internet, people need their own Web site builder. The dbCanvas Web Site Builder is easy to use. Log in from anywhere in the world to use your Web Site Builder.
Search Engine Optimization
SEO or Search Engine Optimization is important to any site. You can maximize your sites Search Engine Optimization with the dbCanvas CMS. Search Engine Optimization is build into the Website Builder so that you can easily improve the SEO of your site. Search Engine Optimization should be an integral part of every site, boost your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) today with dbCanvas!
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