Aluminum reseller package

[Mehmet]

Hi there,

I'm considering purchasing the aluminum reseller package, and I'd just like to ask a few questions. I haven't done anything like this before, to be honest I haven't even created a website! But I'm willing to learn.

Firstly, could someone link me to a hostgator reseller website which has used the WHM.Autopilot. I just want to see how it works, as far as I am aware this is what will be used for billing? So just to confirm, this is how customers will order through my website? How will I get this billing system onto my website exactly? I'm just not too sure how it works.

Secondly, with regards to the free website templates ...am I limited to the amount of templates I can use? Can my clients also use these templates?

Lastly, will the aluminum package be able to accommodate 24 users (each with 1GB storage and 10GB bandwidth (I ask because I don't know the specification of the server).

That's all I can think of right now, Thank you

[Goddess Dix]

Originally Posted by Mehmet

Firstly, could someone link me to a hostgator reseller website which has used the WHM.Autopilot. I just want to see how it works, as far as I am aware this is what will be used for billing? So just to confirm, this is how customers will order through my website? How will I get this billing system onto my website exactly? I'm just not too sure how it works.

to find out more about whmap, go here - http://www.whmautopilot.com/; it is one of two systems hg provides for automating orders and billing. both have to be installed and configured. you can do this yourself or pay to have it done.

Secondly, with regards to the free website templates ...am I limited to the amount of templates I can use? Can my clients also use these templates?

are you talking about the hosting templates? those would be for resellers. i believe the site studio addon has templates too, and those would be available for you and your clients. (i don't use them) my understanding is that you're able to use what you'd like as long as your a hg customer.

Lastly, will the aluminum package be able to accommodate 24 users (each with 1GB storage and 10GB bandwidth (I ask because I don't know the specification of the server).

if your space and bandwith remain within the plan limits, then you should have no issue with that. if the sites you're hosting have heavy database usage, then at times, cpu can be an issue. however, for the vast majority of sites, this is not a problem.

[Mehmet]

Ok, thank you very much

Another question, if someone could answer I'd appreciate it. With regards to templates, how do I edit them exactly?

For example, I have downloaded a couple of templates from here:

http://www.resellerguide.com/p/free-hosting-templates

I have Dreamweaver and Photoshop Elements, I can edit text boxes through Dreamweaver, but what about the logos and that? For example, Hosting Company Template 7, where it says "Ritztech Hosting", I guess the image can't be edited and the text changed? Or can it?

I'm sorry for the stupid questions.

Cheers,

Mehmet

[episkey]

I haven't looked at the template you refer to, but the graphics for other templates I've looked at can't be handled with Photoshop Elements. If the recommended software says Photoshop 6+, they mean the fullscale Photoshop, not Photoshop Elements.

[sheptech]

You'd have to have an image editing program that could opened the layered PSD file like Photoshop (or an old pre-Corel version of PSP) to change that layer then cut out the bit that ends up making up the file "logo.jpg". Barring that you could just edit the logo.jpg file in the image editing program of your choice but IMHO it'd be easier to modify the original layered file then save to web format.

There's talk of Gimp being able to handle some layered Photoshop file versions but there are hitches (including whether the image was created as CMYK rather than RGB which is all Gimp supposedly supports).

[Goddess Dix]

Fireworks will also normally do this.

[Mehmet]

Thank you all for your help.

I can open the template using Photoshop CS3. It does show all the layers and that. However I can't edit the text through photoshop. What is the best way of getting around this?

[Mehmet]

When I say 'text' what I mean is the text on the actual image

[Goddess Dix]

Originally Posted by Mehmet

I can open the template using Photoshop CS3. It does show all the layers and that. However I can't edit the text through photoshop. What is the best way of getting around this?

ok, you've clicked on the layer that has text in it? do you have the font installed on your system that the text is in? is that layer locked? (if so, unlock it.)

if you have trouble working it out, you could also replace that layer with a new one and do your own text on the new layer....it's not clear what you're asking partiuclarly. if they give you layered photoshop file, you should be able to alter the text.

[sheptech]

I looked at the file through PaintShopProv8 and that particular layer came out as raster, not vector - in other words you're not going to be able to edit the text directly. What I'm seeing could be a result of importing to PSP though.

If I ever remember to check when I'm at my home office I'll fire it up in PS and see what it looks like there.

[Mehmet]

Ok, I managed to figure it out! It's all good now. Thank you very much everyone Nice to know that if I ever need help it's not far away!

Cheers,

Mehmet

[Mehmet]

It's me again, with another newbie question!

Once I have edited what I want to edit using photoshop, is there then a way to save all of the image files? Like... write over the old ones? So then when I run the .html file the updated version will show in the browser. Hope the question isn't too confusing, if it is let me know and I'll try explain it a different way.

[sheptech]

If the original author had used slices that would've been the easiest way to reproduce the individual portions of the file - I finally opened it in PS7 and there don't appear to be slices predefined. I'm not a PS expert so if anyone wants to correct me feel free - it looks like you've got two options:
(a) save-for-web the entire image, re-open the file you've saved and crop it to the image you're wanting to replace
(b) use the slice tool to recreate the individual images (or just the one you want for that matter) and give them the appropriate names and file formats then use save-for-web to create the pieces - put everything in a temp dir rather than overwriting the original files though - that way you can qc yourself without erasing anything by accident

[Mehmet]

Thanks alot mate, really appreciate your help.

I managed to figure it out using slices just like you said Thank you very much!

Cheers