Web management | How To Manage A website
In this section, we will be looking at how to manage a website. After learning how to design and host a website, the next thing is to learn how to manage the website. This is very important; your management ability will determine how important your designed website will be. Talking about pulling traffic to the website, replying to visitors’ comments, promoting the website, creating social accounts, creating content on the website, managing emails, creating images and videos, passing the information on the website, and creating articles or posts to update your website visitors or to pass important information,
search engine optimization, working with your website dashboard, optimizing images, videos or web contents, etc.
So in order to simplify the training, we will be looking at the web management in the following areas:
- Control Panel
- Website Dashboard
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
- Online Security
- Search Engine Optimization
- Web Marketing, etc.
but before we proceed, let’s define website management
web management can be defined as the various activities included in the processes of posting and maintaining a website on the world wide web (www)
CONTROL PANEL
you need to understand the control panel of your website host in order to effectively manage your website.
Things you can do with the control panel
- Email Services: These includes- setting up email accounts, Creating email forwarders, Creating email routing, Autoresponders, setting up default address, Creating email lists, Track email delivery, Encrypt emails, Check email disk usage, etc.
- Web Tools: this includes auto SSLSL certificate, and website preview
- Billing support: This section allows you to manage your profile, manage your billing information, view email history, download resources, open a ticket with a customer support system, etc.
- Files: This section allows you to visit your file manager, images, check your web disk, to set up your FTP account, To back up your website, etc.
File manager: This is a place where you can see all the domain names you have and gives you the ability to add files to your domain. A file manager is a place where you will see all the files you have stored on your hosting server, where
you can add, delete, rename, Download, Copy, extract, compress, etc., files on your website.
As a website manager, it is important that you learn how to navigate round your file manager or control panel.
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Note: Some of the features in your cPanel requires that you make payment
WEBSITE DASHBOARD
Your dashboard is the backend of your live website. But in our case here, our dashboard is the dashboard of our WordPress website
And as we all know, the dashboard is a place where we can visit to make major changes to our website.
to visit your WordPress dashboard, log in to the wp-admin of your website: https://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin. After that, enter your wp username and password and hit on login
So as a web manager, one of your major work environments is the WordPress dashboard.
you can create posts/articles, optimize web contents, upload, activate, delete and modify plugins and themes, etc. You can also read how to create original web content here | How to create articles/posts | How to create original images/videos etc.
As a web manager too, you can use the dashboard to properly update your outdated plugins and themes just as we stated in this article here that outdated plugins can crash your website, etc.
FTP
FTP stands for file transfer protocol. it is a feature that allows you to create an account under your cPanel to transfer files to your database or web server. detailed description in the video below
ONLINE SECURITY
Online security is very important; it is the process of securing your online presence or securing your website online. it involves keeping your login details safe,
not disclose the login details to your cPanel, etc.
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION
Search engine optimization is the little things you do in your website for the content of your website to appear at the top of the search engine result page (SERPs) so that people visiting the search engines can visit your website thereby turning into
potential customers
WEBSITE MARKETING
The next thing to do on a website as a web manager is online website marketing; this includes you sharing the links to your posts/articles etc. to social media pages,
affiliate groups, paid advertisements, etc.
Web management | How To Manage A website
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