Web Hosting Getting Started Guide 37 

Third Party Tools 

With Yahoo! Web Hosting, you can choose the tool that s right for you. If you re an 

experienced user more comfortable working with your own site building software, such as 

Microsoft FrontPage or Macromedia Dreamweaver, or you need the advanced features 

available in software like Adobe GoLive, go ahead and build your site offline, with your own 

tools. You can even create an entire site by hand offline using your own HTML or text editor 

(or online with our editors) or use your own software or our advanced scripting tools to 

create pages with PHP, Perl, and MySQL. 

(Please note that some third party software must be purchased separately from Yahoo! Web 

Hosting. To purchase your own software, visit Yahoo! Shopping at 

http://shopping.yahoo.com/.) 

To use a third party site building tool with your plan, you ll simply need to copy the web 

pages and files you develop with your own software to your Web Hosting account. You ll set 

up your software to connect with our servers, then use FTP (or, if you re using Microsoft 

FrontPage, the Publish function) to upload your files to your Web Hosting account. 

To learn more about using third party tools with your Web Hosting plan, please see our 

online help center at 

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/webhosting/thirdparty/

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Blog Tools 

Interested in creating a blog on your site? Short for web log, a blog is basically an online 

journal featuring frequently updated, chronological entries (or posts). Anyone can put 

together a personal or professional blog as an addition to or even in place of a static web 

site.  

If you re an experienced user, you can now easily set up and manage a sophisticated blog 

from your Web Hosting Control Panel using the industry leading 

WordPress

 and 

Movable 

Type

 blog publishing systems. Not comfortable with advanced tools? We ve got you 

covered: The Yahoo! 360  blog tools will soon be added to your Web Hosting Control Panel, 

allowing you to easily integrate a basic blog into your own site. 

For more on blogging and blog tools, please see our online help center at 

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/webhosting/blogtools/

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