Building a Website
As with most good hosting providers, HostGator has multiple options for building and launching a website, meaning that users of all different levels can find a tool to create their site that matches their level of skill and technical know-how.
For advanced users and serious developers, the obligatory FTP functions for uploading sites from your hard drive is present and correct, as is full support for:
– PHP 5
– Python
– Perl
– Ruby On Rails
– Fast CGI
– Cron.
If that’s a little too technical than what you’re looking for, you might be pleased to note that the one-click application installation from your cPanel makes it simple to launch both major CMS platforms and niche tools alike.
WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Magento are all fully supported here, as Moodle, phpBB, and software to help you create wikis, forums, blogs, portals and other types of website, usually by doing nothing more technical than loading up the tool and configuring the various options to meet your requirements.
If all this still sounds like it may be just that little bit too tricky, the inclusion of a free weebly website builder may be just the thing you’re looking for.
One of the most highly praised drag-and-drop website building tools on the net, Weebly requires no technical skill or expert knowledge to create functional, beautiful looking websites.
Instead, the tool allows you to load one of several hundred pre-designed website templates, and customise it as much -or as little- as you like, by changing everything from the colour scheme and typeface to the layout and features. This is all done by dragging various items around the screen with your mouse, and using simple-to-navigate menu options to make changes.
Weebly is becoming an increasingly more prevalent tool in the shared hosting industry, with a number of HostGator’s competitors also bundling it into their plans. There’s a good reason for this too, it’s one of the easiest and most effective ways to create a great looking website, and means that those of you new to owning a website can get just as much out of your HostGator plan as those who’ve been doing it for years.