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Setup your website in minutes.


PageRock's incredible ease of use is based on out exclusive patent pending technology. We are happy to help you get your website setup, either through email support, or through a Zoom video and screen sharing call. Simply email us at pagerock@pagerock.com.

Step 1: Add a Domain Name

Once you have created an account, you will be brought to your account manger, where you can add files to your domain name. You may optionally setup additional domain names under the same account. The websites setup at your domain name(s) will be instantly available for preview using the account manager.

Step 2: Modify your Menu, Settings, and Home Page

Your website is automatically created with the files below when you add a domain name.

settings.txt
title domain.com
description Welcome to domain.com
paypal

The settings.txt file contains the title and description to be displayed for your website. To allow for items to be purchased on your website, register an account with PayPal and provide the account email address next to "paypal".

menu.txt
Home /
Store /store/
Blog /blog/
Mailing List /mailing_list/

The menu.txt file contains the items you want displayed on your website's menu, where the format for this file is the menu item title followed by it's link, with menu item per line.

content.txt
Welcome to the home of domain.com.

The file content.txt contains the text that will be displayed on the homepage of your domain. To create additional webpages, add a new folder named after the web address where you want it to be accessible, for example name the folder "about" if you want it to be accessible at http://www.yourdomain.com/about/. The folder will by default have a content.txt file, containing the content to be displayed at the web address corresponding to the folder name. To add a link in the content.txt file, the format is [text|link]. To add an image to the content, upload the image file as specified in the next steps, then simply including the full image file name in the content. Additionally, to support unlimited customization, all standard HTML works.

Step 3: Upload or Import Files and Content

To add images, and any other files, simply click the button "Upload Files" in the account manager, select the file(s) to upload from your computer, then submit and wait for the files to finish uploading. To embed a file in your webpage, simply include the name of the file in the content.txt file for the corresponding folder.

To import content from an existing website, in the PageRock account manager create an appropriately named new folder for each page of the website, then copy and paste the text content from each page of the existing website into content.txt of the appropriate folder.

To import files such as images from an existing website, save those files to your own computer, then upload them in the account manager.

Step 4: Activate Domain Names

To make your website accessible at your chosen domain name, if you haven't already purchased a domain name at setup, and are adding an additional domain name, click the "Activate" button for the domain name in the account manager for the domain name. If you do not already own the domain name, you can sure it is available for purchase by entering the domain name next to the "Check Availability" button, and then clicking that button.

Your credit card will be billed the low monthly or annual rate specified on the order form, which includes the purchase of the domain name if you do not already own it. It may take up to 48 hours for the rest of the Internet to recognize the domain name as pointed to our service, due to domain name registration propagation delays that are a result of decentralized control of the Internet.

If you'll be using a domain name you already own, after activating the domain name with PageRock, sign in to the service where you registered your domain name, and delete the DNS Records for the domain name that specify "www", then create a new DNS "CNAME" Record pointing the "www" address for your website to "www.pagerock.com". If you don't know the name of your domain name registrar, you can look it up by visiting http://whois.icann.org/, entering your domain name, then going to the website of the company listed as the registrar, and signing in there to make these changes. If you have any problems pointing your domain name to our service, please contact us and we will be happy to assist.

Step 5: Optionally Utilize Advanced Features

PageRock is powered by exclusive patent pending technology, whose implementation is described below.

<pagerock:store>
"category","name","price","image file name","short description","long description"
"Books","The Republic","19.95","republic.jpg","Socrates epic work.",""
</pagerock:store>

By placing the <pagerock:store> tag around content in the format above, you will make the items described available for purchase through PayPal.

<pagerock:form>
filename test.csv
email test@test.com
text Name
box Additional Comments
submit Send
</pagerock:form>

You can instantly create any custom form and have the submitted data
emailed to you and saved to a file that can be downloaded, using the format above. The first and last lines indicate that this is a form, the second line after "filename" is the name of the file to save data to, the next line is "email" which is the email address to email submissions to, then each line is a the type of input to display and it's label.

<pagerock:table>
"Name","Phone Number"
"Joe","800-555-1212"
</pagerock:table>

Add tables to display content by using the <pagerock:table> tags to surround the content in the format above.

<pagerock:table>
inventory.csv
</pagerock:table>

You can also use .csv files to generate a table as shown in the example above, so such files can be easily managed on your computer in a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel.

<pagerock:image>image.jpg</pagerock:image>

Insert images into your webpage that automatically display optimally on both desktop computers and mobile devices.

<pagerock:link>Google|http://www.google.com/</pagerock:link>

Easily add links to your webpage using the format above, where the title of the link comes first, separated by the pipe character, then the link associated with the title.

<image_grid>
image_1.jpg
image_2.jpg
image_3.jpg
</image_grid>

Insert an image grid into your webpage by specifying image files line by line.

<image_carousel>
image_1.jpg
image_2.jpg
image_3.jpg
</image_carousel>

Insert an image carousel into your webpage by specifying image files line by line.

Step 6: Spread the word about your website and track activity including visitors

activity.csv
"Date","Location","Category","Description","IP"
"2017-04-17 14:25","Venice, Italy","Registration","joe.giana@google.com","47.73.144.108"
"2017-04-17 14:25","Venice, Italy","Visitor","/","47.73.144.108"
"2017-04-17 14:26","Venice, Italy","Visitor","/order/","47.73.144.108"
"2017-04-17 14:41","New York, NY","Visitor","/","85.37.199.172"

The activity.csv in the folder of each domain name contains a record of activity on your website including every page that's been visited, along with the date, location, and IP address of the visitor.

Step 7: Optionally Contact Support

If you have any problem getting your website setup exactly the way you want, please contact us. We want to make sure every client has their website setup in an ideal manner so they choose stay with us for years. We are available at through our support section and at pagerock@pagerock.com.