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Chapter 3: Get to Know Your Control Panels 

As the owner of a Yahoo! Small Business plan, you ll need to sign in to your account 

anytime you d like to publish changes to your web site, monitor your site status reports, or 

make any administrative changes to your plan (such as creating new email addresses, 

purchasing add ons, or altering your billing information). For your security, we require that 

you enter your Yahoo! ID and secret password to access your account information. 

To sign in to your account, visit the Yahoo! Small Business home page at 

http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com

. If you have not yet signed in, you ll be able to do so here.  

Web Hosting Control Panel  

After you sign in to your account, you can visit your Web Hosting Control Panel at 

http://webhosting.yahoo.com

. The Web Hosting Control Panel is the console from which you 

can administer every aspect of your Web Hosting plan, from creating new web pages and 

managing your email to reviewing your site statistics, monitoring your disk space usage, 

and more. We recommend that you take a look at its features and begin to familiarize 

yourself with its powerful tools. 

The control panel is divided under a series of tabs, which organize your tools by function; 

each reflects a group of related tasks. Home is your source of general site information, 

such as site statistics and data transfer. In Create & Update, you ll find site building, 

blogging, file management, editing, and other tools, including add ons, File Manager, and 

advanced scripting tools. From Manage you can work with email, FTP, and passwords, and 

you ll market your site with the help of Promote. For assistance finding or using a feature, 

look to the Index and Help tabs. 

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