Customizing Your Control Panels

You have the ability to completely customize or "brand" your end user's control panels as well as your login page and signup forms. This is done in the "Look and Feel" section of your Administrative Control Panel.

Click on "Look and Feel" from your Admin control panel and you will see that you can customize the following items:

  • Banner HTML Code: enter the HTML code for the banner you want to show up both in both your admin control panel and your end user control panels.

    E.g.:
    <a href="http://www.destination_company.com/cgi-bin/blah-blah.cgi" target="blah-bhlah"> <img src="http://www.domain.com/images//banner.gif" width=468 height=60></a>

    Tip: use this banner to link to the End User Manual or our end user Knowledge Base to provide easy access to support for your clients.
  • Show Copyright: toggle the button to show / hide the copyright notice in the top left corner of the window above the logo both in admin and user control panels.
  • Logo Image URL: enter the URL address of the image to show up in the top left corner of the control panel

    E.g.: http://www.domain.com/images/logo.gif
  • Signup Image URL: enter the URL address of the image to show up in the top left corner of the hosting plan signup forms.

    E.g.: http://www.domain.com/images/signup.gif
  • Login Image URL: enter the URL address of the image to show up on the logging page on the right.

    E.g.: http://www.domain.com/images/login.gif

Please note that you will need to create and upload these images to your website before you can configure them above.

In addition, you can customize the colors and also the design or "skin" that your end users will see.

Customizing Control Panel Design and Colors

You can choose from three different designs and color schemes for your end user's control panel. 

To set a new preferred (i.e. default) design for the user control panel, do the following:

  1. Select Design Settings from the Look and Feel menu.
  2. In the Choose Design box select the default design.
  3. Click the Modify button.
  4. On the page that appears, change the settings:




    • Users can choose this design - this option determines whether this design becomes available to your customers;
    • New users will get this design as default - switching this option ON will switch it off for all other designs;
    • Choose another design - go to another design to modify.

  5. For each design (left menu, text based, no menu) you can set different image and icon sets and also create only one custom color scheme, by changing and retouching one of the predefined color schemes.

    * If you choose a default color scheme, your custom color scheme settings will be lost.



After you change the settings, click the Preview Window icon at the bottom of the page to see how your settings will effect the end user control panel.

Now you can return to editing design settings or leave the Design Settings page.

Once your control panel is customized to your satisfaction, the next step is to setup your payment processing for your web hosting account... 

 

Go to step 7...