If you are a web designer or a webmaster, website design is one of the most important tasks you do. In designing a site, you need to create a design that is easy for users to use, is compatible with different systems, and is search engine friendly.

Making a site that is user friendly:

In some ways, creating a user friendly site is just common sense – other aspects are not so obvious, though. Obviously, you’ll want to make the text easy to read, the navigation links easy to find, etc. Here are a few other tips:

Put contact information on every page.
Make it obvious what you want the user to do after reading a page..
Make it easy for the user to reach your homepage from any other page

Making a site that is cross-platform compatible:

The main factors you need to consider in platform compatibility are the user’s browser, screen resolution, color depth, and plug ins.

Browser compatibility is easy – just test your site in various browsers, and fix any incompatibilities. The same for screen resolution – just be sure that you site looks good and is easily navigated with any common screen resolution. Color depth is also relatively simple. Just restrict your design to using web safe colors.

Plug-ins can be a little more complicated. If at all possible, try to use media that is compatible with most versions of a plug in. For example, try not to use a flash movie that requires the latest version of a flash player.

Making a site that is search engine friendly:

The biggest thing you can do to make your site friendly to the search engines is to give it a good link structure. Be sure that each page on your site is linked to from at least two other pages with a plain text link. Image links are OK, but not as good as optimized text links. Javascript and flash links are very bad for search engine usability.

Welcome to Rustikat!

What should I expect after placing an order?
Our order processing system works as follows:

1. Client places an order from our website
2. Client is expected to make payment by credit card or PayPal for the order
3. Once payment is received and CLEARED, the order will go into our fraud screening office
4. Your order will be checked manually. If everything is okay, the order will be accepted (usually within 6-12 hours of placing the order)
5. Once the order is accepted, you will receive your account access information. The subject of the email is New Account Information. This email contains all access and login information to your control panel. If you have not received this New Account Information email, it means your order is still being processed. Please wait until you hear back from us.
6. Once you have access to your control panel, you can begin managing your Rustikat hosting account immediately

How do I login to my cPanel (hosting account control panel):

1. Please make sure your order has been activated by us and that you have received your account access information. Please refer to our order activation process above.
2. You can login to your control panel by following the instructions within your New Account Information email.
3. You can also access your account control panel from your client area. First login to your client area at https://www.rustikat.com/clients/clientarea.php then scroll to the bottom right at Server Login click on cPanel and you will be taken to the control panel

To have one, two, three, or more of your included software installed for you, please follow these steps:
1. Login to your control panel (cpanel)
2. Under Software, see that blue smiley icon Fantastico? Click on it
3. On the Fantastico page, on the left menu, choose any of the available software for you to install by clicking on it
4. Follow the installation steps and you should be able to use it immediately

We don’t provide support for any of these included application/software. If you have any questions or problems using it, please visit their respective website and request assistance there.

More Softwares
More softwares are available under the Software/Services menu on your control panel. Click on CGI Center and Site Software to see the list of all available software you can use with your website.