Our Control Panel offers several other helpful and free tools to help you manage and enjoy your web site. Below is a brief overview of these tools.

Website Counter

Our free Web Counter tool allows you place a counter on your website, showing how many hits you have received. Please note that this tool may not work if you have Frontpage extensions installed.

Custom Error Pages

If a visitor’s attempt to view a page on your website fails, the server will generate and send an error page, which is displayed in the visitor’s browser. These default error pages are not terribly attractive - consisting of an error code and a cryptic description of what went wrong in unstyled HTML - but they are easy to replace with custom error handlers.

Since an error handler can be any page you wish, it is easy to base an error handler on the same template you used to build your website (e.g. same navigation bar, same text style, etc.).

Note: If you use any Error Code handlers, FrontPage extensions will not work correctly. If you wish to use FrontPage extensions, please install FrontPage first, and then use FrontPage to install the Error Handler(s) of your choice.

File Manager

The File Manager allows you to upload files to your website and instantly manage specific pages.

The files in your site are stored in directories. Directories can hold other sub-directories. The result is a directory structure that can have many sub-levels. Any of those directories can contain files. How you organize your directory structure is up to you.

Microsoft FrontPage Extensions

Using Microsoft Front Page is easy and free with New Winnipeg Web Hosting.

Unlike some of our webhosting competitors, there is no extra charge for using the component. You can install the necessary extensions for your account by clicking on the FrontPage icon in your Control Panel - setup takes only a few minutes.

Free Guestbook Tool

A guest book is a web page that allows visitors to your site to post comments to you and to other visitors. It is a good tool to collect testimonials and customer feedback.

Poll Manager

Poll Manager allows you to create and manage polls that you would like to have running on your
website.

Password Protect Directories

Using this tool, you can password-protect any directory you own. This will prevent users from viewing the contents of a directory unless they have permission. This tool is useful if you plan to create a “members-only” section of your website.

This allows you to restrict material to only authorized users or store sensitive material online. You can set any number of users using this feature, and set it to as many folders as you wish.

Redirect URL tool

The Redirect URL tool lets you change the file that appears when a specific file’s address is entered. For example, you may redirect people who might be using old URLs that are still on your website, but are no longer valid. This option allows you to redirect them to current URLs.

This is very helpful if you have changed your website structure and you don’t want to lose any visitors whom may have found you through an old page.

* Please note that some of these tools may not work if have Frontpage Extensions installed. However, Frontpage does offer some of these tools.