IN THIS ISSUE:

• New CrystalTech Website
• Control Center Resources

New CrystalTech Website
We just launched a brand new version of the CrystalTech website. It includes a new, streamlined look as we did not change much in the way of menu structure and page names. We have also included a few more "overview" pages that provide some general info on shared versus dedicated hosting (https://www.crystaltech.com/web-hosting.aspx), our small business services (https://www.crystaltech.com/smbservices.aspx), etc.

If you link to our website or to pages within our website, you'll want to be aware that we changed over to a .NET project for the site. Therefore, all pages on our website now use the .aspx extension versus .htm. However, links to the .htm pages will still work as users will be automatically redirect to the new page extension.

Take a look around our new website, and as always, please feel free to let us know what you think.

Control Center Resources
It is our effort to not only provide our customers with the best web hosting found in the industry today but also offer the most feature-packed control panel in the industry. While you may be very familiar with most aspects of our Control Center, we wanted to point out some free useful Resources that you may not be aware of.

After you login into the Control Center (https://www.webcontrolcenter.com/customer.aspx), you will find the Resources tab at the very bottom of the tree menu. Click on any of the following tools and follow the instructions you are prompted with to complete the install.

SiteCenter
All shared hosting customers have access to the remarkably easy-to-use CTsitecenter tool found in this Resources tab. This online site builder, editor and file manager includes a number of pre-built templates that allows you to quickly build a website with no programming experience. Just chose a template, drop in your text and photos and within minutes, your website is built. You can even open and edit HTML pages not created by the CTsitecenter.

.NET Starter Kits
ASP.NET Intermediate customers and up have access in the Resources tab to automatic installs of the Portal, Reports and Time Tracker Starter Kits. Each kit is a sample ASP.NET application that provides code to accomplish common web development tasks.

The Portal Starter Kit demonstrates how you can use ASP.NET and the .NET framework to build a dynamic portal application. The Reports Starter Kit provides a simple data reporting solution for displaying multiple views on data, creating charts and rendering any type of data in a web application. The Time Tracker Starter Kit demonstrates how to build a line-of-business ASP.NET application to track the time worked on projects.

ZenCart Install
With the majority of our hosting plans, you will find an automatic CTzencart install in the Resources tab. This shopping cart program offers a robust and customizable storefront that's easy to update. CTzencart works perfectly with CTmerchant and CTmerchantlite, our payment gateway solution, and other leading payment modules, such as PayPal and AuthorizeNet. Other key features include multiple shipping and payment methods, eBay auction support and numerous merchandise pricing options for sales and promotions.

DotNetNuke Install
ASP.NET Intermediate customers and up also have access to this install in the Resources tab. DotNetNuke is an open source framework ideal for creating professional web applications. Powerful and feature-packed, it comes loaded with a set of built-in tools that provide powerful pieces of functionality. Design, content and security can be easily managed and customized through these tools.

We also will soon offer the most recently released versions of DotNetNuke (4.0.2 for .NET 2.0 plans and 3.2 for .NET 1.1 plans) in the near future.