When you’re first getting started with a new space on a new Web host, you might think of yourself as owning a small “territory” of the Web. Everything you place in your public folder on the server becomes available for anyone on the Web to see (assuming they know the address of your site and […]
A subdomain is one way of organizing and separating content on your site. To create a subdomain, use the following steps: Log into sites.dtcc.edu with your Delaware Technical Community College username and password to access your cPanel. Once logged in, you’ll be at the homepage of your cPanel. The easiest way to navigate your cPanel is […]
There may be times when you need to upload files to your website in the Delaware Technical Community College web hosting environment. There are a number of scenarios when this might be necessary: You’re working with an application that allows you to install plugins/extensions, but the files need to be manually added to your file […]
If you are using your WordPress, you can also get an export of your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags. The WordPress export is great for grabbing the content of your WordPress site so that you can import it into another WordPress host, such as WordPress.com or WordPress.org. Note: Exports do not include plug-ins, […]
Web hosting is, at its basic core, files and folders on a computer that is connected to the internet and setup to distribute them. How that computer (typically a server) is set up to do that is covered more in LAMP Environments but this article will explain the idea of the file structure and how it relates […]
This web hosting space currently utilizes both subdomains of your school’s project URL and top-level domains (a .com, .net, .org address) after initial signup. You have the option to start with a free subdomain and then later decide you’d like to purchase a top-level domain after using the space. You can do this by registering a domain with a service provider (we […]
As you begin to build out your digital presence you’ll probably start to think about social media in some form. In fact it’s likely that you already have at least one, if not more, social media accounts (Facebook being the most popular to date). Everyone uses social media in different ways, and although it’s often […]
Delaware Technical Community College uses a Web server known as a LAMP server. “LAMP” is an acronym for the technology stack that is installed on the server: Linux: This is the open-source operating system that is used on the server. Apache: This is the Web server software that the server uses. MySQL: This is the database […]
When you sign up for an account on Sites @ DTCC, you get a personal space our web host. There are a few things you need to know about the Web host that will make it easier to understand what you can do with your new space. The Web Server The Web server is the […]
Static Websites In the early days of the Web, almost all Web sites were what is known as ‘static sites.’ Content (text, images, video, audio, etc), was placed or embedded in a file in which HTML tags were used to format it. If you looked at the actual contents of the file, you might see something like this: […]