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dbCanvas Developers Guide

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.

dbCanvas Developers Guide

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Authored by Brian McGowan

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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.

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Storage 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 Guide

Email 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 Page

Static 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 $89

PHP 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
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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 $89

Startup 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.

Create easy to remember addresses @yourdomain.com. Redirect mail to a preexisting mailbox, or configure your @dbcanvas.com address and send it there.

Learn more about Email Aliases
Email Aliases Users Guide

Traffic Stats

Graphical traffic stats output by Webalizer. Stay on top of your sites traffic trends.

The Webalizer

MySQL 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 phpMyAdmin

osCommerce 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 $89

Calendar Admin

Create calendars and publish them on your website with just a few clicks. Use multiple calendars for either public or private use.

Calendar Publishing

Image Gallery

Create Image Galleries and upload your pictures with ease. Publish your Galleries anywhere on your site and display in both slide show and per page formats.

Image Gallery Publishing

Banner Admin

Manage your banner advertisements. Control the banners on your site, it even sends your clients weekly ad click reports.

phpAdsNew Banner Admin

Faq 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 Man

Mail 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 Manager

Video Player

Stream Video files from your site using Windows Media Player or Adobe Flash (FLV). Simply upload your video files, publishing them is made easy with the dbCanvas CMS.

Video Player

MP3 Player

Provide rich streaming audio in mp3 format on your website using Windows Media Player or the popular Adobe Flash. Simply upload your audio files (.mp3) to the site, and publish them with the dbCanvas CMS.

MP3 Player

ht://Dig

htDig is a powerful Website search engine. It allows people to search your website for specific terms. This is the same search engine used on this website.

htDig Site Search Engine

Guestbook

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.

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News Blogger

News Blogger - Create and publish channel feeds to outside sources with RSS, or publish articles locally on your own web site. News Blogger includes the ShareThis feature which allows site users to share content with people they know through a selection of social networks and other connective media.

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Website Builder

The dbCanvas Website Builder is on the cutting edge of its industry. This Website Builder 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 and its incredible features. Search Engine Optimization is built 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!

MachForm

MachForm is the fastest way to create web forms and collect results without writing a single line of code.

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