An SSL certificate is a way to show users of your site that you’ve taken steps to make sure their personal information is safe. Increasingly, visitors are becoming reluctant to visit websites without them because of warnings from their browsers that a site may be unsafe. Fortunately, setting up your Coventry Domains site with an […]
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There’s a huge number of web hosting providers out there, and the majority of them offer cPanel, which is what you’ll be used to if you’ve built a website or application with Coventry.Domains. Most web hosting providers will be happy to import a backup you create of your cPanel information. This will contain everything on
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Universal design is a useful idea to help guide the design of web content to fit the needs of your audience. This post outlines what universal design is and how you can use this idea to help create a website that is well considered and useful to your audience.
Whether you’ve graduated from university or are a staff member moving on to pastures new, it’s good to know that you can take all of your Coventry.Domains content with you when you leave Coventry University. Can I continue to use my Coventry.Domains account after I leave? Unfortunately not. Each Coventry.Domains account costs the university a
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Publishing content on the web has the potential to be open and accessible to many people when done so correctly. This post covers things to keep in mind when creating online content.
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Below is a list of questions to help you think through the purpose of your website before you start building it. If you have clear answers to these questions it will help you plan towards a well-considered website. Content Are you publishing content about yourself / your practice / your work / a specific project
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Designing a website can be an abstract process, where it is difficult to know what is possible or what the space should look like until you start building. Using metaphors to describe your new space can help you articulate and pin down what you want to do, and support you to flex your creative thinking
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Once you have built your first self-hosted website, you can build secondary websites that share the same domain name. With Coventry.Domains, your first website will likely be found on your main subdomain address otherwise known as your root domain, e.g. ‘pseudonym.coventry.domains’. Using sub-subdomains and directories, you can build additional websites that also sit on your
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POSSE, abbreviation of “Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere“, is a content publishing model where you post content on your own domain first, and then push out (or syndicate) copies to 3rd party services with links back to the original content on your site. This way, the original version of your content stays within
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Coventry.Domains provides web hosting space and a subdomain (web address). An easy way to understand what hosting, domains and websites are is to think of web hosting as a plot of land. Access to web hosting is like having a plot of land or a physical space. A website is like a house to be
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