Going Live

The process of "Going Live" involves activating your ShoutCMS website and pointing your domain at the appropriate IP address to make it publicly visible. Site activation does the following:

• Releases your site to open (public) Internet access.
• Activates email accounts if optional email services have been purchased.
• Points your site from the temporary domain to your own domain.
• Activates specific terms defined in the ShoutCMS Hosting Agreement.
• Enables the shopping cart.

Before Going Live

Before making your site public, ensure that you have considered the following items:

• Develop or migrate site content (such as Pages and Articles) and your Main Navigation menu.
• Customize the look and feel of your site with Themes and CSS.
• Create or import your Contacts.
• Delegate access through Administrator Roles.
• Review and configure the Site Settings.
• Create your Online Store:
  • Create or import Products.
  • Add Categories and Tags to help your customers shop.
  • Setup automatic invoicing with Recurring Packages and Memberships.
  • Configure your Inventory.
• Create a Newsletter Subscription Form and Subscription Groups.
• Purchase a domain.
• Setup company email accounts.
• Integrate third party tools such as Google Analytics, Google AdSense, Sumo, and others.

You should also disable your "Coming Soon" page, if you have one, and take a walk through your site to confirm that nothing is out of place.

How to go from mysite.shoutcms.net to www.mysite.com

The domain name that will be used as the final internet address of your website must be registered with a Domain Name Registry (eNom, Go Daddy or similar). During the process, you will be assigned a login and password to access your domain name registry account. These will be used to point the domain your new ShoutCMS website.

If you do not already own a domain, and do not have a preferred registrar, you can purchase a domain in the "Set my Site Live" section of the General Settings area.