Site Builder Setup Guide Print

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If you have ordered the site builder or a plan that includes the site builder, here are the steps to get your new website installed.

If you decide you don't want to do this yourself, we do offer a fully managed website option, where we will build and manage the website for you.

Domain Name.

If you purchased a domain name from us, then this should be pointing at our hosting servers by default, so nothing further for you to do.

If you are using your own pre-existing domain name that you registered elsewhere, then there are some steps involved,

If you are currently NOT using your domain name for anything, including email, then simply update the name servers with the following, your domain registrar should be able to help you with this.

ns1.myukcloud.com
ns2.myukcloud.com

If you are already using your domain name for email, then do not perform the above steps. We suggest you instead just set your A records to point to our web servers IP address, this will not affect your email.
The IP address you need to use can be found in your welcome email you received when you signed up for for the site builder. Please speak with your currently provider/domain registrar for advice on how to do this.

 

Once the above steps have been completed, you will need to wait up to 24 hours for DNS propagation until your domain name is pointing at our servers.

Once this has occurred and your domain is successfully pointing at our servers, you will see a temporary holding page isaying "This website has not yet been setup" f you type your domain name into the browser.

Now you can continue to setup your website.

Install the site builder

Log into your client account.

then you will see the following page, so click on any of the "build a website" links as indicated by the red arrow.

Now simply choose the template you want to start with and click install.

Remember, this is just a template to get you started, which you can completely edit, so just choose a layout and style that you like.

The installation process is very self explanatory and straight forward, simply follow the prompts and enter the info when prompted.

Once the installation is complete, you will be presented with a guide to show you how the editor works.

You will also find a HELP section on the menu with some video guides.

 

To access your website admin in the future, you can go to yourdomain.com/admin, which will give you various login options.

  • Login with your email
    Will send you a one time code to your email address to login with
  • More Options
    • Login with WHMCS
      This will allow you to login via your client area (our billing system)
    • Login with Google
      If your email address is a gmail account, you can use this to login via google.

You can also login to your client area, and login to your site builder from there.

After your hosting has been setup, you should receive an automatic email shortly after telling you that your free SSL certificate has been installed.

Once this is done, then you can access your site over HTTPS.

We recommend that you set this to the default.

Goto Settings -> general settings 
And enable the option "Always use SSL/HTTPS for this website"

We also recommend to set the option "Define primary website address"
And chose either yourdomain.com or www.yourdomain.com as the default.
This ensures that all traffic to your site will be on the same domain, which is better for SEO and analytics.

Don't forget to CLICK SAVE.

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Adding the menu widget.

Simply add a new section where you want to add your buttons and choose the "custom HTML code" module.

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Here is a quick tutorial showing you how


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