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GETTING STARTED

Knight Domains provides students, faculty, and staff with the opportunity to sign up for a domain name and create a digital presence through various mediums such as blogs, portfolios, and wikis. You can easily install open source applications such as WordPress, Drupal, Scalar, and Omeka to your own domain, and use this space to create your digital identity and express your creativity.

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What is Domain of One’s Own?

And what is Domain of One’s Own at St. Norbert College? Well, let’s start with the first question – the title of this post – What is Domain of One’s Own? Domain of One’s Own (sometimes abbreviated as...

Choosing Your Domain Name

Choosing your domain name is the first step in getting started with staking your claim on the web. Your domain name is a unique Web address (e.g. yourname.knight.domains) that can be used to...

Signing Up

Review the Guidelines Before you get started, we recommend that you review our information about Choosing a Domain Name. The Sign-Up Process Once you’ve reviewed the guidelines, you can...

Understanding Accounts & Passwords

One aspect of Knight Domains that users may find a bit complicated at first is understanding the different accounts (and associated passwords) that you can manage as part of your participation. This...

Privacy

What you add to your webspace rests entirely with you. You can choose not to pick a domain that reveals your name. You can use a pseudonym on your actual site. However, when you sign up through the...

What Can You Do with Your Account?

Your ability to do things on Knight Domains is dictated to a large degree by the limits of your imagination. That said, there are some technical requirements and limitations that you should be aware...

Registering a Domain

This web hosting space currently utilizes both subdomains of your school’s project URL and top-level domains (a .com, .net, .org address) after initial signup. You have...

What Exactly is a Web Application?

In the most general terms, a Web application is a piece of software that runs on a Web server. A Web server is a just a specialized computer designed to host Web pages. Most Web applications are...

Static and Dynamic Websites

Static Websites In the early days of the Web, almost all Web sites were what is known as 'static sites.' Content (text, images, video, audio, etc), was placed or embedded in a file in...

LAMP Environments

When you sign up for an account on Knight Domains, you get a personal space our web host. There are a few things you need to know about the Web host that will make it easier to understand what you can...

Social Media

As you begin to build out your digital presence you’ll probably start to think about social media in some form. In fact it’s likely that you already have at least one, if not more, social...

Technical Requirements/Limitations of Knight.Domains?

St. Norbert College uses a Web server known as a LAMP server. “LAMP” is an acronym for the technology stack that is installed on the server: Linux: This is the open-source operating system that is...

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