Domain/Web Administration

Becoming Familiar with Parallels Plesk Panel

When you log in to the Parallels Plesk Panel, it shows your Home page with shortcuts to the operations you frequently perform.

The top banner area provides access to the following functions:

• My account. This is where you can select a language and theme for your control panel and change your contact information.
• Log out. This is where you close your session when you have finished working with control panel. The navigation pane on the left provides access to the following sets of functions:
• Home. This is where you start working with the control panel. Most of the operations you might need to perform are accessible from this area.
• Settings. This is where you specify settings for the Web site hosting service and Web statistics.
• Global Account. Currently the global account is not setup for you environment. This shortcut appears in your Parallels Plesk Panel when the single sign-on capabilities are switched on the hosting server. Single sign-on technology allows you to log in to different Parallels products using a single global login name and password. This shortcut is used for changing the global login settings.
• Help. Provides context sensitive help.

To see information about a tool or an item on the page, hover the cursor over an item, without clicking it, and a small hover box appears with supplementary information regarding the item being hovered over.

The main working area on the right provides access to the tools available for the current section of the control panel selected in the navigation pane. Additional operations are accessible from drop-down menus that open when you click group titles.

To the right of the path bar, there are Favorites and Visited Pages menus. The Visited Pages menu keeps the shortcuts to the recently visited control panel screens. These shortcuts are added automatically. The Favorites menu keeps the shortcuts to the screens that you manually add to favorites.