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Polar CMS in alpha testing

After 3 months of development first staging of the Polar CMS script has been released to our testers / designers to start playing with. Process of our testing Running the install program to setup the databases and user accounts Use the basic functions of the CMS: - Add pages - Add page elements to change - Use the WYSIWYG editor - Apply [...]

Proudly supporting Hosting for Haiti

Hosting Companies Unite to Provide Relief for Haiti. And You Can Help. On January 12th, a series of earthquakes measuring 6.5 to 7.3 on the Richter scale devastated Haiti. There is now a critical shortage of essential supplies and support personnel to assist the people of Haiti through this crisis. “Although normally fiercely competitive, as [...]

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ASP.NET Variables

ASP.NET Variables

The one of the most important parts of any coding language is variables and how to set them. For our example we are going to use a ‘String’, please see below our code:

<% String Title = “My Title”; %>

As you can see we are setting a string named ‘Title’ with the string of “My Title”. Now we want to display (echo / print / output) this to the page:

<%= Title %>

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NY2 Media Server - cPanel Services

2010-01-21 08:45:00

Over today we will be running some service updates and checks to make sure NY2 which may make the webmail and cpanel services go offline. Your website will not be effected and we will be working to have ever [...]

Recent server downtime

2010-01-19 08:30:00

Our main shared hosting services had some issues with apache and DNS services which caused the servers to be unavailable. Our support team worked through the night and made sure the network was back online a [...]

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WordPress Blog Hosting

WordPress is a easy to use blog system packed with great and easy to use features such as RSS feed systems, commenting and a full range of add-ons. You are able to manage your enture blog of the WP admin area which has everything you need to write, edit, approve and manage a blog.

To view a blog in action please visit our WordPress blog at: http://www.hostmediauk.com/blog/

About WordPress

WordPress

WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. To learn more about WordPress visit their website at: http://wordpress.org/

Extending WordPress

WordPress

WordPress is infinitely extensible. One of the core philosophies of WordPress is to keep the core code as light and fast as possible but to provide a rich framework for the huge community to expand what WordPress can do, limited only by their imagination.

System Requirements

  • PHP version 4.3 or greater (Host Media UK offers PHP 4 & 5)
  • MySQL version 4.0 or greater (Host Media UK offers MySQL 5)
  • Apache (Host Media UK runs Apache)
  • The mod_rewrite Apache module (Host Media UK offers the mod_rewrite Apache module)

Installing WordPress

There are two ways of installing WordPress, the first option is to download the latest WordPress using the link below and manually install through the steps in the documents provided with the download.

Or the easiest way is to let our systems install the blog instantly for you using Fantastico De Luxe you can enter in the details such as admin username & password and the install directory to allow Fantastico De Luxe (cPanel) to do all the work. If you are using Windows web hosting WordPress is installed within the pre-install scripts system within Helm where you can also do the same.