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Two options that will suit your requirement

1. Quick Shopping Cart starting from $9.99/month

Quick Shopping Cart® makes it easy to create your own online store in just minutes! Reach millions of eBay® and Froogle^TM shoppers, integrate your sales information with QuickBooks®, accept credit cards and much more. No technical expertise required! In just six easy steps, you can build and publish a stand-alone store or add one to an existing Web site - no matter where it’s hosted. Check for the real life Quick Shopping Cart® in action.

What is Content Management System?

Content Management System (CMS) is a software system used for content managements.

Important Features of CMS

• Any authorized members in the community can easily publish, manage and organize contents - news, articles on common interest, multimedia material & more.
• Administrator identifies key users and their content management roles.
• Publication of the content to a repository to support retrieval of the content anytime. In fact, the repository is an inherent part of the CMS.
• Ability to have different content sections and categories.
• Add-on to CMS website:  Blog, Video streaming, Forum, Photo Gallery & more.

Open Source CMS Scripts

There are plenty of CMS scripts. You have to pay a price for it or can use the open source CMS scripts. Open source CMS scripts are getting much more popular with the evolution of Web 2.0 generation where the users and developers contribute toward the advancement of the script. There  are also CMS tools which as free as long as you use it for the personal purpose such as Community Server from Microsoft.

At HumDomains we provide some of the most popular CMS scripts FREE with every hosting plan. Installation of these scripts are easy and fast. And It is FREE.

For Linux Hosting Plan the following CMS scripts are included.

Drupal is software that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a great variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to set up scores of different kinds of web sites. Drupal Wins Overall Open Source CMS Award, 2007.

Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. Joomla is awarded the best PHP Open Source Content Management System

Mambo is a full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. It can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University.

Nucleus is a content management tool that enables you to set up and maintain multiple blogs. It supports multiple languages and includes a commenting system and search feature.

PostNuke is software that creates an impressive, dynamic web site and provides the webmaster with a site they can administer with a minimal amount of HTML knowledge through a web browser.

XOOPS is a content management system (CMS) that allows administrators to easily create dynamic websites. It is an ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more. It can be installed on an Internet host with a PHP-capable web server (e.g. Apache) and a database (e.g. MySQL).

For Windows Hosting Plan the following CMS SW/Scripts are included.

Community Server is the platform that powers web communities with over 50,000 customers, Community Server helps organizations around the world power some of the most demanding web communities. It is FREE is long as you use for your personal purposes. For the commercial purpose, you may need to get the appropriate license.

DotNetNuke is an open-source Web Application Framework ideal for creating and deploying projects such as commercial websites, corporate intranets and extranets, online publishing portals, and custom vertical applications.

Can I try these scripts FREE ?

Of course yes! You can download these scripts are try out at your own personal computer. For this purpose, your PC will have to act as the web server. The easiest way is to install WAMP5 in your PC. WAMP5 installs Apache, PHP5 and MySQL on Windows platform. You can download it free from here. Here you can even try out all the scripts listed for the Linux/Windows Hosting plan. Linux PC usually install Apache, PHP and MySQL unless you opt out during the OS installation.

Can I try these scripts directly on the Web Hosting Server for FREE?

Well, I am not aware of any hosting company who can allow you test these scripts for FREE. There are few hosting company who can provide very limited demo version of the CMS scripts with not much control over it. You can have a look however you can’t play around much in your own.

When you register a cheap domain at HumDomains, we provide you a 5GB PHP/MySQL Linux or ASP/MS-SQL Economy Hosting Plan absolutely FREE. However, it will have a small ads on the top of the page, however non-obstructive for your website. Check an example here. You can install these scripts and test it for yourself. Select the most suitable script for your own purposes. Add more features into the CMS website such as forum, blog, gallery & more until you satisfy yourself. There are just unlimited features you can add to it. Check the extensions/addons on the respective CMS websites. If you have the courage you can try all of them - we won’t ask you a single question. We also will never ask you to upgrade to the paid hosting plan. Feel free to use the FREE hosting plan as long as you are happy with the forced ads on the top of the page.

All the very best for your CMS website.

Sincerely,
HumDomains

Even though there are different ways of making a personal website, all of them need your time and money or both. At HumDomains, with no programming or HTML skills you are ready to make your own personal website. You don’t have to be a web designer or pay the price for a web designer to make your personal website.  At HumDomains, we have put so much efforts to simplify the process of making your own personal website or a website for your family.

Why a Website not a Web Page?
When you construct web pages you need to have a link like otherdomain.com/users/page1.html which is at times difficult to be memorized by yourself, your friends and others. However if you have a website using your own domain say yourdomain.com, then just by typing the yourdomain.com in the address bar of the internet browser it will land up to the default page. Simpler to remember, isn’t it!! And you have more control over it.

How to begin
65 MB Website Tonight account - When you register a domain at HumDomains, you get 65 MB 5 Pages Website Tonight® account for FREE. Website Tonight makes it fun for ANYONE to create their own site - without spending a fortune! It’s so easy-to-use — we’ve even included Hosting. There are hundreds of professionally designed templates just for your personal or family websites. Find more informations, check out at Working with Website Tonight® on how to Getting started, Adding and editing page content articles, Designing your website and more.

Add Photo Gallery to your Personal Website
Free 1 GB Online Photo Filer comes with every domain at HumDomains. Discover an easier way to share, print and manage your photos online! Online Photo Filer gives you an online photo album site for sharing photos, as well as easy-to-use editing tools to make sure your photos look their very best. You can even order high quality prints directly from your album and have them delivered right to your door! (Check the example site). Here is Online Photo Filer Help Center

Add BlogCast to your Personal Website
Free Quick BlogCast - Get your voice on the Internet! Blogging lets you post your thoughts, photos and even your vedios (including your own youtube vedios) on the Net and interact with your web site’s visitors. Whether you’re writing your own personal journal or looking to influence audiences, Quick Blogcast is the must-have blogging tool for you. How to manage your blogcast Help center!

• Publish your thoughts, opinions, and comments in your own blog, podcast or both anytime, day or night! Supports multiple authors and multiple blogs or podcasts.
• Generate and publish RSS feeds for Tunes® and other directories.
• Post photos, images or animations - create a truly personal blog site.
• You can even stream vedios inside your blog
• Get feedback and have conversations with visitors to your site.
• Personalize your Blogcast with your own unique domain name, Your own domain lets you pick the exact name you want, making it unique and easy to remember! - or integrate it with your existing site by setting it up as a subdomain.

Your Personal Email
25 MB Complete Email - You get 1 Email Address with 25MB Total Storage free with every domain. Your HumDomains email account is fast, ultra-reliable and secure. It’s POP3 configured and advertising-free. It offers unique you@YourPersonalDomainName.com personalization. It allows you to send and receive email using popular email clients like MicrosoftR Outlook®, Outlook Express® and more. You can forward the incoming emails to this email account to your existing email account.

Have your own Personal or Family Website with a domain. Feel the joy of sharing with others!! Communicate with your own personal and uniquely yours email ID.

Sincerely,

HumDomains

Blogging lets you post your thoughts and photos on the Net and interact with your blog website’s visitors.

Defining Blog

There are different descriptions of that concept. According to most of the articles in the Internet ‘blog’ is short form for ‘weblog’, a frequently updated publication of comments and thoughts on the web. Usually it is reflecting the views of the blog’s creator. Blogs consist of text and images and are sorted by date. People create blogs to share their live experience with the world. The person who is updating that journal is called blogger. They write about different topics: from the typical daily situations to the progress of some scientific researches. The readers also can leave comments and this make the whole thing more interesting and useful.

Creating your own Blog Website

The easiest way to create a blog is to use an appropriate blogging script. This way you do not need to know anything about the web design and programming in order to share your thoughts with the world. You also can make a free blog at Wordpress.com or Blogger.com or other sites providing free or paid bloging facilities. In such case you blog address is your-subdomain.wordpress.com or your-subdomain.blogger.com. However if you want to have a blog with your own unique domain, you need to have a domain for yourself.

At HumDomains, we offer two options to start your own blog.

Option 1. Open Source Wordpress script for Linux OR BlogEngine.NET for Windows

WordPress is a semantic personal publishing platform (i.e., blog) with a focus on aesthetics, Web standards, and usability. It supports multiple users, categories, comments, bookmarklets, RSS syndication, several APIs, and weblogs.com ping, among other features. We recommend you the use of Wordpress script for your blogging need. With HumDomains Linux hosting plan, you get free installation of Wordpress and let your blogging website online within few minutes. It can be easily customizable and extendable with many useful free WP plugins.

BlogEngine.NET is an open source .NET blogging project that was born out of desire for a better blog platform. A blog platform with less complexity, easy customization, and one that takes advantage of the latest .NET features. With HumDomains Windows hosting plan, you get free installation of BlogEngine.NET and let your blogging website online within few minutes. For example, HumDomains Blog is powered by BlogEngine.NET with the Windows hosting plan.

Option 2. Quick BlogCast

Make your website more attractive and add more flavors to your website by including Quick Blogcast to your site. With Quick BlogCast, you’ll:

• Publish your thoughts, opinions, and comments in your own blog, podcast—or both—anytime, day or night! Supports multiple authors and multiple blogs or podcasts. Show Me
• Publish even your own videos with the Blogcast. Not only that you can even insert YouTube videos.
• Generate and publish RSS feeds for iTunes® and other directories.
• Post photos, images or animations—create a truly personal blog site.
• Get feedback and have conversations with visitors to your site.
• Personalize your Blogcast with your own unique domain name—or integrate it with your existing site by setting it up as a subdomain.

How to Start ?

To begin with, register or transfer a domain with HumDomains - that’s cheap with our promotional prices. Each domain includes 5 GB Free PHP/MySQL Hosting (small forced ads, non-obstructive, no pop-up).

You can install and let your WordPress/BlogEngine.NET blog online in no time (select free Linux PHP hosting planfor Wordpress and Windows ASP Hosting Plan for BlogEngine.NET form your control panel) with the FREE hosting plan that has been included with every domain. Installing applications are free, easy and fast.* The small forced ads could also be easily removed by upgrading to any of the our affordable paid hosting plan.

Our Basic Quick BlogCast is free with every domain. Blogcast is an alternative to WordPress blog website. Getting started Quick Blogcast is easy.

Can I keep the FREE hosting account forever?

Sure, you can keep free hosting account as long as you maintain the domain with us. We will never ask you to upgrade to a paid hosting account. If you have no problem with the small forced ads, continue enjoying our free services with every domain.

Have fun with blogging and sharing your views and ideas with others.

All the very best for your Blog Website.

Sincerely,

HumDomains

Value Applications Manager is an online shared hosting forum through which you can install and manage many free value applications.

NOTE: Hosting free applications are not supported for the third party product installations. For support, contact the author of the application. A link to the application home page is listed on the application information page in Value Applications Manager

To Install Hosting Value Applications Through Value Applications Manager

1. Log in to your Account Manager.
2. In the My Products section, select Hosting Account List.
3. Next to the hosting account you want to modify, click Open.
4. In the Content section of the Hosting Control Center, click the Value Applications icon. Value Applications Manager displays.
5. In the category panels, click the appropriate value application.
6. Click Install Now.

   NOTE: The Install Now button appears only when the selected value application is compatible with one of more hosting plans in your account.

7. Read the End User License Agreement, and then click I Agree.
8. Choose the domain to modify.
9. If the value application requires a database, enter a database description and password, and then click Next.
10. Enter the value application installation directory, and then click Finish.

NOTE: If you leave the installation directory blank, the value application is installed in your root directory.

Do you know ?

Every domains that you purchase from HumDomans includes FREE Economy hosting plan with a small forced ads. Therefore, all the free value applications could be installed and tested with FREE hosting account as well. Have fun testing them and choose the right application for your own website. We do not apply any restrictions to the number of applications you can install with the FREE hosting plan included with every domain.

Sincerely,

HumDomains

Do you konw that every hosting plan at HumDomains includes the following Windows/Linux based value applications?

You can choose the most suitable applications for your website - we have no restrictions on the number of applications that you may use for your website. Each of these applications could be installed either directly at your domain [www.example.com] or at any subfolder or subdomain. How to install these applications?

You don’t even need to buy a hosting plan to test and use these applications. Every domain registered or transferred to HumDomains includes FREE economy hosting plan (with a small forced ads on the top of each pages of your website - it will automatically be removed upon upgradation to the paid hosting plan). Therefore, you can also install any of these value applications using your FREE hosting account. However, please note that syndications will not work properly with the FREE hosting plan. As long as you are comfortable with the free ads, continue to use the FREE hosting, and you will never be asked to upgrade to the paid hosting plan.

Check out the list of Value Applications!

Administration Tools

paFileDB
paFileDB is a file management system that enables you to create and manage a database of files available for download on your Web site.

Advertising

Noah’s Classifieds

Noah’s Classifieds is a PHP-based general purpose application that allows you to upload, run, and manage classified ads online.

OpenAds

Openads is the world’s most popular adserver with the the web’s largest community of ad space owners. Tens of thousands of websites use Openads to make money from online advertising.

Blogs

BlogEngine.NET

BlogEngine.NET is an open source .NET blogging project that was born out of desire for a better blog platform. A blog platform with less complexity, easy customization, and one that takes advantage of the latest .NET features.

Lifetype

LifeType is an open-source blogging platform with support for multiple blogs and users in a single installation. Writing articles is comfortable with the included state of the art WYSIWYG editor. Adding pictures and sound files (for Podcasting) is just a matter of browse and click. The Dashboard provides you with all the information you need every time you log in. Recent articles, comments and trackback as well as brief statistics get you updated about your blog immediately

reBlog

reBlog is an open source web-based RSS aggregator which allows you to filter and republish content within one application.

Serendipity

Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or even a complete homepage. While the default package is designed for the casual blogger, Serendipity offers a flexible, expandable and easy-to-use framework with the power for professional applications

WordPress

WordPress is a semantic personal publishing platform (i.e., blog) with a focus on aesthetics, Web standards, and usability. It supports multiple users, categories, comments, bookmarklets, RSS syndication, several APIs, and weblogs.com ping, among other features.

Content Management

Community Server

Community Server is the platform that powers web communities with over 50,000 customers, Community Server helps organizations around the world power some of the most demanding web communities.

DotNetNuke

DotNetNuke is an open-source Web Application Framework ideal for creating and deploying projects such as commercial websites, corporate intranets and extranets, online publishing portals, and custom vertical applications.

Drupal

Drupal is software that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a great variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to set up scores of different kinds of web sites.

Joomla

Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

Mambo

Mambo is a full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.

Moodle

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. It can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University.

Nucleus

Nucleus is a content management tool that enables you to set up and maintain multiple blogs. It supports multiple languages and includes a commenting system and search feature.

PostNuke

PostNuke is software that creates an impressive, dynamic web site and provides the webmaster with a site they can administer with a minimal amount of HTML knowledge through a web browser.

Xoops

XOOPS is a content management system (CMS) that allows administrators to easily create dynamic websites. It is an ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more. It can be installed on an Internet host with a PHP-capable web server (e.g. Apache) and a database (e.g. MySQL).

eCommerce Solutions

osCommerce

osCommerce is the leading Open Source online shop e-commerce solution. It offers shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores.

Zen Cart

Zen Cart™ truly is the art of e-commerce; a free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart system. The software is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think e-commerce could be and should be done differently.

Galleries

4Images

4images is an image gallery management tool. Visitors can register and post comments about pictures in your gallery.

Coppermine

Coppermine is a photo gallery tool that enables you to arrange pictures in categories and albums, create thumbnails of images, search for pictures, and view slideshows.

Gallery

Gallery is the next generation of open source photo sharing Web applications. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own Web site whether you’re running a small personal site or a large community site. Hundreds of thousands of people and organizations are using Gallery to create personalized photo albums on their Web sites.

Forum

Simple Machines Forum

SMF is an advanced community software package that enables you to set up and manage online community forums.

Vanilla Forum

Vanilla is a free lightweight and extensible open source forum software using PHP scripting language and MySQL database management system.

YetAnotherForum

YetAnotherForum.NET (YAF) is a Open Source discussion forum or bulletin board system for web sites running ASP.NET. The latest version is ASP.NET v2.0 with a Microsoft SQL Server backend. The full C# source code is available licensed as GPL.

Others

OpenDB

OpenDB (Open Media Lending Database) is a PHP/MySQL inventory application that allows you to easily catalog different media types such as DVDs, VCDs, CDs, VHS tape, games, books, and laser disks.

phpCollab

phpCollab is a collaboration and project management system that enables you to set up and manage a projects and share files.

Project Management

eXPlainPMT

eXPlain Project Management Tool (or simply eXPlainPMT) is an open-source, web-based application that assists in the planning and managing of software projects that use the eXtreme Programming methodology.

Website Add-Ons

Aardvark Topsites

Aardvark Topsites is a powerful Perl topsites script. It includes many features such as counting pageviews, hits in, and hits out, multiple pages, a search engine, member login, lost password retrieval, and an easy-to-use web-based admin area.

Advanced Guestbook

Advanced Guestbook is a PHP script that you can use to add a guest book to your Web site.

Advanced Poll

Advanced Poll allows you to create, place, and manage an online polling system on your site.

phpMyFAQ

phpMyFaq is a multilingual, database-driven FAQ management system that you can use to create and manage a FAQ on your Web site.

WWW Paint Board

WWW Paint Board (Wpb) is a tool where users can draw dynamically on the web with VML (Vector Markup Language) technology.

Wikis

MediaWiki

MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis.

PmWiki

PmWiki is a system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites. Pages created with pmWiki look and act like normal web pages, except they have a link that makes it easy to modify existing pages and add new pages into the website.

Life will be much more simpler to construct your website using any or combination of these applications.

Have fun playing around with these applications - and we wish that you surely will find a suitable application for your website. The list will be updated as when new applications will be added to the hosting plan.

All the best for your value website.

Sincerely,

HumDomains

HumDomains & HumHosting Services is a super reseller of Wild West Domains, Inc., an ICANN accredited Registrar - a GoDaddy Company, the largest domain registration company in the world. Wild West Domains is the seventh largest reigstrar as on 12/24/2007 and largest web hosting company in the world with ~16 million domain names hosted in its world class hosting servers. HumDomnais provides one stop service for domain name registration and web hosting at cheap prices. HumDomains Reseller accounts are provided at the best price available in the market. 

HumDomains Blog is dedicated to bring out various features of the products at HumDomains. From time to time, tips to make a website will be provided in this blog. In fact, making a website is not a difficult task if you got to know some tips and tricks. There are many ways to make a website without having to know the basics of HTML and programming. Stay tune to this blog from time to time - we will bring out tips to make Personal Website, eCommerce Website, Social Networking Website, Content Management Systems (CMS) website, Blog Website, Forum Website, Photo Gallery Website, Podcast  Website & more. 

All the very best for your website.

Sincerely,

HumDomains

Welcome to Humdomains Blog. It’s undergoing reconstruction as we have changed the server and blogging software. Please come back again later,

Sincerley,

HumDomains