Linking a domain to a website means linking a website and a domain.
Thanks to this, every user who wrote in address bar browser domain address, will be able to open the site or find it on the Internet. For example, by writing yandex.ru in the address bar and pressing the “Enter” button, we will be taken to the Yandex search engine website - because the domain yandex.ru is linked to this site.
A domain is the address of a created website, which has its own unique name on the network. There are several levels of domains.
- First level domain is the name domain zone, for example “ru”, “рф”, “com”.
- A second-level domain is the name of a specific website - for example, “yandex.ru”, “site.rf”.
- A third-level domain is the name of a website in the zone of some service, for example “site..edusite.su” or “site.sbcompany..su or sbcompany.me.
When writing a website address, domains of different levels are always separated by dots.
There is no way an ordinary user will be able to buy a first-level domain. Level two is easy. And third-level domains are most often given by service providers for free.
A website created on 1C-UMI initially runs on a 3rd level domain of the form site.site. On a paid plan, it can be replaced with a 2nd level domain like site.ru. To do this, do 2 simple steps.
1. Buy a 2nd level domain. This can be done in three ways:
- receive as a gift by paying for the site for 3 months or more;
- buy through the control panel of your website, in the “Domains” section → “Purchase a domain” ();
- buy through any third-party registrar.
2. Link it to your site.
Link a domain purchased by 1C-UMI
In the control panel of your site, section “Domains” / “Domain Linking”.
If the domain has just been registered (purchased) on the 1C-UMI service, then it takes some time (up to 48 hours) to activate it. Please wait. After this, the control panel will allow you to link the domain to the site.
In the “Enter a new domain” field, indicate the domain you purchased in the format XXX.ru (or .com, .org, etc., depending on the domain zone). For example, site.ru. To complete the domain linking procedure, click the “Link Domain” button.
Within a few minutes after linking the domain, your website will become available at the address of the new domain. When typing the old level 3 domain in the browser address bar, users will be automatically redirected to the new one. For example: you changed the domain site..ru. At the same time, users who typed the old site..ru address into the browser.
If you have problems editing your site after linking your domain, log out of your account in the control panel, close the site and clear your browser cache. After that, open the site again and log in as an administrator.
Link a domain purchased from a third-party registrar
1 step. Point your domain to our servers
Before binding third party domain you need to point the domain to our servers, otherwise you will not be able to link it to your website on 1C-UMI. To do this, you need to change the NS records of your domain in personal account on the site where you registered the domain (for example, reg.ru, sprinthost.ru, timeweb.com, etc.).
Let's look at an example of changing the NS records of a domain purchased on reg.ru.
On the domain management page, in the “Domain Management” section, click on the “DNS Servers” link.
- ns1.site
- ns2.site
If your site is hosted on the sbcompany.me or edusite.su service, you must use the following ns records:
- ns1.edusite.su
- ns2.edusite.su
Some registrars require payment to edit (change) domain settings. On 1C-UMI - no!
If the lines with “NS” are not two, but four, then fill them in like this:
- ns1.site
- ns2.site
- ns3.site
- ns4.site
If your site is hosted on the service sbcompany.me or edusite.su, then this:
- ns1.edusite.su
- ns2.edusite.su
- ns3.edusite.su
- ns4.edusite.su
In order for your website to be accessible at the new address, Internet service providers around the world must update their DNS servers. They update domain information on servers every 24 hours (some up to 72 hours). Just wait.
When purchasing a domain on the 1C-UMI service, you do not need to change NS records; they will be updated automatically.
Step 2. Link the domain to the site using the 1C-UMI service
After updating the NS records, you can link the domain to the site in the control panel, in the “Domains ―> Domain Linking” section in the same way as when purchasing a domain through 1C-UMI.
If something went wrong
Problem: you have registered NS records, but suddenly a message appears stating that the address record was not found and you need to add it.
Solution: Don't panic. Write all the data again, just put a dot after .ru. It will look like this: ns1.site.
Problem: You want to change NS records, and suddenly the system responds that the SOA record could not be obtained.
An SOA record can be compared to a library card that is included in a book. It notes who took this book to this moment(rents a domain), and also where it will be when it returns to the library (domain zone name).
Solution #1: Find the line with disabling DNS servers and check the box there. After this, complete changing records.
Solution #2: go to the site’s administrative panel, section “Domains ―> Domain Linking” and start linking the domain.
The domain will not be linked, but an SOA record will be created. Your domain will be verified, all you have to do is go to “Manage Domains” and fill out the lines as shown in the screenshot.
Today there is absolutely no problem making a website: you can use the services of freelancers, you can order a website from a studio, you can finally master some kind of content management system (CMS) and make a website yourself for free! However, creating a website is not so bad...
For example, you paid about 100 thousand rubles for the work (far from the highest price that is asked in a decent web studio in St. Petersburg or Moscow), and decided that this was the end of your spending. However, maintaining the resource and keeping it up to date also requires considerable costs. Change logo - pay, change contacts - pay, update news feed– pay, etc. If the site is updated regularly, but you do not have your own full-time webmaster, then such costs add up to a pretty penny)).
As I mentioned, you can make a website yourself and take on all the work on its content. Almost all bloggers, for example, do this. Only a few of them know the basics of HTML and PHP, but this does not prevent them from maintaining their website on their own. However, is it possible to create an online store in this way, for example? No problem!
UMI.CMS has a very nice administrative panel, where there are tooltips next to each element. Managing the structure of a website and its content, in principle, is no more difficult than editing documents in Word - you get the hang of it really very quickly.
Don't believe me? Watch this short video:
The developers are also proud of their system for bringing a site to their hosting in one click. When you completely save the content and positions in search engines. This is possible due to the fact that UMI.CMS is a cross-platform development, that is, it works on almost any hosting equipment, including virtual servers.
To date, more than 150 thousand sites are already successfully operating on UMI.ru. Every day there are more and more clients for this service. There is no secret here: making a website yourself is really easy here, and free plan is undoubtedly a significant advantage!
Manual installation of UMI CMS
All actions must be performed in the hosting control panel.
- 1.
Before you start, download the latest UMI CMS distribution from the official website.
Create a database according to the instructions: . Remember or write down the database name, username, and password.
At CMS installation you can also use the already created database "u1234567_default"(where “u1234567” is your hosting login), it is automatically created in the control panel when ordering hosting. Access details are given in the section;
- 2.
upload UMI CMS files to the site directory. To do this, select your control panel and follow the following instructions:
By default, the site directory contains parking page files. They must be removed before posting the site. Select everything except the directory webstat and click Delete:
Click Upload in the upper right corner:
Select the downloaded archive and click Extract:
Go to step 3;
In chapter Domains click on Additional domains:
Go to your site directory:
Click Send and upload the previously downloaded UMI CMS archive to the control panel:
After downloading, return to root directory:
Extract:
Will be extracted from the archive installation file install.php to the current directory:
Go to step 3;
In the tab Websites and domains go to your site folder:
By default, the site directory contains parking page files. They must be removed before posting the site. Select everything and click Delete:
Click download files, select and download the previously downloaded UMI CMS archive:
Select the UMI CMS archive and click Extract files:
The installation file install.php will be extracted from the archive into the current directory:
Go to step 3;
- 3.
go to the address in your browser http://your-site-name/install.php. Your domain must be linked to hosting:
You will see home page installation of UMI CMS. Enter license key and continue with the installation:
If you see a browser message saying that the page or server was not found, use Help.
Enter your access details to log into the administrative part of the site and click Further:
In order to analyze the most full version functionality of the engine, we used the UMI online store for testing. It includes all the features available on other plans. And the system is clearly aimed, first of all, at their creation.
In UMI for editing site pages a visual editor is used . Once in it, by pressing F2 you can make changes to the selected text or graphic element. Unfortunately, you cannot change the block structure (move, add or delete). Here you are a hostage to the template markup. Only editing inscriptions and replacing pictures. Not much. And the design of the WYSIWYG editor is outdated. Everything is clear, more or less convenient, but ugly and non-functional. You cannot achieve any noticeable page customization in it. Is it convenient to replace inscriptions and pictures with others? And thanks for that.
As for the structure of capabilities of the administrative panel itself, it is as follows:
Apart from the very decent store functionality, 1C-UMI couldn’t please us with anything special. Yes, the admin panel is convenient, understandable, the standard functionality for such systems is in place (well, almost: where can I change the background?), but this is all ordinary.
Average templates and the lack of options for customizing them, a weak visual editor and the lack of specific functionality for one-page sites (timers, icon sets, etc.) make 1C-UMI a poorly adapted platform for developing bright business cards and effective landing pages. We are not talking about blogs at all (only commerce), although you can create one if you wish.
Everything says one thing: you need to make a store in UMI , otherwise the system simply will not justify itself. If you decide, you will get platform-exclusive features: synchronization with 1C And "MySklad" , as well as some semblance of CRM. Import/export of goods also in place, as well as unloading items from Yandex.Market . Okay, but... For some reason, the options for setting up live chat and order buttons are common in this niche. call back UMI does not. It's a pity. For commercial sites this is a very important functionality. An obvious shortcoming in the must-have functionality segment.
Now about domains. Immediately after registration, your site will be given a technical subdomain like site-7778899.umi.ru. It will serve faithfully throughout the free 15-day trial. trial period. After that, if you do not change it to your domain, it will take the form yoursite.umi.ru.
Domain registration available directly from the admin panel and will cost from 600 rubles/year. You can also attach a domain from a third-party registrar by playing a little with the NS server settings. But all this is available only on paid UMI plans. Free accounts in the system live on subdomains.
With a one-time payment of any tariff for a period of 3 months, you will be given a domain in the zone.рф or.ru to choose from. You can register it directly from the control panel.
What do we have as a result? UMI functionality is designed to create store, but for some reason some important features for this type of site are missing. Laziness of developers? Who knows. Competitors have a rosier picture. Yumi is clearly not suitable as a universal tool for creating all types of commercial websites. Gaps in working with templates, there is no order for a call back and no consultant. There is no timer either. Still, the store can turn out to be quite good: it will be convenient to manage, sell well, keep statistics, and so on. The shortcomings with design customization are not particularly visible here, as long as the shelves are not empty. In general, it is he who pulls out 1C-UMI, but clearly not in the TOP. A B minus for everything.
Designs and working with templates
Built-in designs for websites in UMI are made using average level . There are a lot of them (about 600 options), most of them look neat, some even look great, but many are of the same type and rustic. All templates divided into 4 categories: website of a specialist, company, landing page, online store. The specimens from the last 2 categories look the most decent. They are more modern and interesting. It is noticeable that most of them were added later than the business card designs. The very fact that there are updates is encouraging. Landing pages look the most technologically advanced , but still they do not reach the level of visual quality of the solutions presented on competitive platforms. Although you can find an excellent template in any category by going through several options. So no problem.
Choosing a template type , you also decide on the type of future site. So take this factor into account. All templates in categories are divided into many topics: adaptive, sports, business, education, etc. There are many topics. It's a little disappointing that in this era mobile devices the number of adaptive instances is significantly less than those with a fixed size.
Before choosing a design, you can use the preview mode. True, it is not particularly informative: a half-screen screenshot is clearly not enough to get a complete picture of the quality of the template and choose without regretting it later. Although later you you can change the design to any other from the same category. But, you must admit, sorting through a dozen options in this way for the sake of being able to view them in full form is not very practical. The presence of a full-fledged demo mode for previewing UMI would not spoil it.
Note that all templates are filled with something unique for each of them. demo content , which makes me happy. By editing it a little, you can get some part of the project ready. Comfortable. If you decide to change the template during your work, the system will not prevent you from doing so.
A huge fly in the ointment of the design part of the system is the almost complete lack of opportunities to customize templates. You can't even change the background without editing the CSS. We believe that there is no point in continuing the list of shortcomings in this direction after such a statement.
In general, the situation with UMI templates cannot be called poor, but the site builder clearly has room to grow in this regard. Developers will have to try to make the system look at least as good as its closest competitors in this respect.
Let's summarize. Minuses: a relatively small percentage of adaptive copies, an uninformative preview mode, the simplicity and uniformity of a good half of the design solutions, the lack of options to customize stock designs for yourself. Pros: a large number of templates and themes, the presence of demo content, a breakdown of designs into the types of sites for which they are designed, the ability to edit CSS. Overall rating follows from comparison with competitors - three. Not bad, there is plenty to choose from, but what was taken away did not produce a wow effect, and, in fact, nothing can be configured.
Pricing policy 1C-UMI (prices for tariffs)
In this regard, UMI is not doing well. Fares are shown in “from” format and not as actual prices. For example, a specialist’s website (business card) will cost you from 136 rub/month . It seems inexpensive, hurray! But there is a nuance: this price tag works when paying for engine services 3 years ahead! And so with all tariffs. It is unlikely that most users, having barely touched the designer, will rush to pay for it immediately in three years. After registration, you get 15 days to test the selected type of site with the full range of features of the paid plan. After this period ends, the settings will drop to the minimum, and the restrictions of the corresponding free tariff will appear.
The service provides the opportunity to buy the site forever, but you will have to purchase a license for UMI.CMS, which costs from 22,900 to 79,900 depending on the type of build and, accordingly, the level of capabilities. By purchasing a site, you get the opportunity to move to your own hosting. Although there is one “but” here: not all modules of the designer’s store are compatible with those in the CMS. That is, migration will require additional financial/time costs for completing the templates/modules of the designer for the CMS environment. You will also need hosting, for which you will have to start paying. Not very profitable. Instead of convenience, you get knots and hitches. It’s better then to start working on a CMS right away than to find yourself in it as a “reward” for buying out the site and having to work on/pay for the developers’ gaps.
You can pay for the engine per month , every 3 months either for year straightaway. The shorter the payment period, the higher the cost (the difference between the monthly and annual payment in annual terms is about 50%). It may be more convenient for some to pay in small portions, but in the end it will be more expensive. As always, we will show the annual price tags for each tariff:
- Specialist website - 330 rubles/month or 2640 rubles/year, give 4 GB of space;
- Landing - 550 rub/month or 3840 rub/year and the same 4 GB of space;
- The site of the company (business card with a small catalog of products with reduced settings) - 550 rubles/month or 4800 rubles/year and 4 GB of space;
- Online store - 1100 RUR/month or 9900 RUR/year, get 10 GB of disk space. Paying for the tariff gives access to the full functionality of UMI.
The developers, with their pricing policy, seem to be pushing users towards a 3-year payment or redemption, without advertising the real annual tariff prices. It's somehow opaque and intrusive. Be careful when paying.
We especially note the possibility tariff changes any time. You don't even have to pay the full price of the more expensive offer. Your account will be recalculated and you will receive new functionality for as long as there are enough funds in the account. You can pay extra later, of course. It is simply not necessary to prepare the entire cost of the new tariff for the selected period - this is the essence of the convenience of the approach.
Prices are generally average, but this particular store is expensive. Still, it is far from ideal. There are cheaper ones, but there are also more expensive options. In addition to paid tariffs, UMI also provides 4 free tariffs of the same name tariff plan. All of them involve receiving 100 MB of disk space and the complete impossibility of attaching your own domain. In other words, they are superfluous and are only suitable for familiarizing yourself with the capabilities of the system. Although for the latter, a 15-day trial, in which full functionality is available, is quite enough. In general, the situation with prices in Yumi is very confusing; we recommend that you read the price list carefully.
Optimization (SEO) and promotion
In this regard, 1C-UMI looks like a pretty strong player . It’s not enough to create a website, you also need to promote it. And we have every reason to believe that even inexperienced users of this system will be able to achieve what they want.
It is clear that sites created in the system are promoted according to the same laws as any others: filling out meta tags, titles, creating unique content, perhaps contextual advertising, integration with social networks, etc. Nothing new here. You can stand out in another way - by creating convenient conditions for promotion. Especially for beginners who do not really understand the meaning of indicators of analytical systems, the nuances of assembling the semantic core and so on.
In 1C-UMI these conditions have been created. There is a separate section here "Advertising/SEO" . Its core is integration with the popular SEOPult promotion service. You can directly from the admin panel pick up keywords for your site, download them from a file or add them manually. You can also view detailed reports on positions (if this is not enough, nothing will prevent you from integrating Google/Yandex statistical tools), view financial statistics on current advertising campaigns and important messages on this topic. If you do not understand any of the above, then the well-written instructions, which you will find here, will help you. Everything will be sorted out, one way or another. And it pleases. The system looks friendly in this regard.
Among other things, you will be able to confirm ownership of the site, edit robots.txt, set up redirects if necessary, and install any counters. Of course, you can connect commenting via VKontakte and Facebook.
In our opinion, 1C-UMI contains sufficient set of tools For effective promotion shops. Work with the system and you will succeed. The conditions have been created.
Advantages and disadvantages
The system, for all its tangible advantages, feels frankly crude. You can use it and achieve results, but it lacks optimization, visual advancement and some obvious features.
pros
- Store functionality with nice bonuses in the form of synchronization with 1C: Trade Management. Yes, it’s paid, but it’s available, which is rare;
- Big choice templates in which you can edit styles via CSS;
- Nice tools for advancement;
- Simplicity of the control panel and overall decent level of functionality;
- Cheapness of creating a business card;
- Good technical support and the presence of a high-quality “FAQ?” section;
Examples of sites created in UMI
We have selected several samples of ready-made websites created in UMI by the users themselves. The goal was not to discredit or advertise the platform. We took decent copies by the standards of the engine, available for viewing on the official website of the platform. All of them are hosted on subdomains, probably created by the developers themselves and are, rather, for informational purposes only. But they should be enough to get an idea of the capabilities of the system.
Alternatives and competitors
When evaluating UMI based on the efficiency of creating stores, competitors are very easy to find. This is definitely not the most powerful and convenient constructor. In terms of business cards and landing pages, things are even worse: the carriage and the small cart of services cope with this task much better. They are more convenient, in some places cheaper, contain more useful profile features, etc. UMI is not a platform that is difficult to find an alternative to. There is only one trump card - friendship with 1C out of the box. And even then it’s paid.
Main competing services:
– a much more powerful store builder. There is even the possibility of synchronization with 1C out of the box, not to mention friendship with Yandex.Market, AliExpress and other trading platforms. The SEO module is noticeably more advanced, more settings security, payment, delivery and everything else. Real-time sales monitoring. The quality of premium templates is noticeably higher. Better suited for team store administration. There are many benefits.
– competes with Yumi in terms of creating business cards and landing pages. A much more convenient visual editor, the templates are all adaptive without exception. A more cost effective option for the price. The speed of launching the site is the same. More responsive interface high speed page loading, good optimization and promotion opportunities. The picture is completed by responsive technical support and regularly held promotions with discounts.
– a more flexible CMS-based designer. It has a modular structure, allows you to add scripts and plugins, expanding functionality. Out of the box it is much more powerful than UMI. Allows you to more flexibly customize your storefront and work with a large volume of goods. Withstands large influxes of traffic without subsidence, sites work quickly, as does the control panel. The page editor is more convenient, the templates are better.
UMI has nothing to compete with its competitors. Even synchronization with 1C does not pull it out of the hole: it is paid and is not only available here. For any possible use case (business card, landing page, store), it is easy to find a competing service that is cheaper and better in every sense. Yumi feels like a good, but morally outdated product. This can be seen both in the templates and in the set of capabilities. In its current form there is nothing to choose for it.
1C-YUMI calls double sensations . On the one hand, the efforts of the developers are visible and well implemented. But only partially. On the other hand, the designer feels raw and the interface is outdated. Although the design of the admin panel is nice, simple, and we don’t choose a working tool for the sake of special effects. On the other hand, there are problems with functionality. Lack of obvious opportunities. We cannot forgive such omissions.
Strange pricing policy, weak visual editor, average templates with virtually no customization options, lack of some important functions for the store and versatility as such. There are many shortcomings. But the possibilities promotion pleased. For many, this can be a decisive factor in their choice.
Websites created in UMI look good , but there are not enough stars from the sky. Middle peasants. Fortunately, for a store, the quality of design is not the most important component of success. But the convenience of the shopping cart/display window/catalog plus navigation are factors that directly affect sales. And Yumi can provide all this. But the same cannot be said about landing pages and business cards. This also requires design. Preferably beautiful and unique. One that in UMI can only be achieved by editing CSS. But not everyone can do this. Most will use the standard templates as is.
The engine has potential , but only if the developers focus on smart updates. There should be enough resources. It would also not hurt to rethink Yumi’s positioning and refresh the interface. Competitors are not asleep, and against their background the hero of the review lags behind in some parameters, and with a devastating score. Although in some ways it is ahead. The price is competitive only in the business card creation niche.
In terms of convenience, it is comparable to its closest competitors. Simple? Yes. Functional? In some places. Modern? Not yet. Perhaps Umisoft’s partnership with 1C will inject fresh blood into the project. Still, the main product of the company was and remains a CMS, and the designer was created for those who are not ready to delve into a relatively complex system, but need a decent website that will be convenient to promote. It’s noticeable that the developers took a rest on it, skipping a lot.
Does it make sense to use UMI? We believe not, given the quality and cost of competitors' offerings. You can get acquainted, 15 days of trial allow you to do this. If you want to stay, it's your business, your money. In our opinion, for any type of site proposed for creation in Yumi, there is a much stronger analogue. This is what confuses me. An ordinary average guy with untapped potential. Let's get acquainted and move to where it's better.
The UMI CMS licensing policy is not transparent to me. Perhaps this is because I simply did not make enough effort to understand how and what the license from the control system applies to? Who knows…
But the fact remains a fact. And one fine day I had to face problems with transferring a finished website from a test domain to the main one.
Some lyrics:
- Usually, the development of a new website is not carried out on the main domain for a number of reasons, the main one of which is that the domain is working. And then constructions like: http://new.site.ru/ come into play
- The standard development time for a new website rarely takes less than one month, which is exactly what is given for using UMI CMS in the trial version. After the trial period ends, it becomes impossible to even get into the administrative part without entering the key. Therefore, using the trial version in its pure form until the transfer is not always possible.
So, what awaits an unprepared developer at the time of migration?
And, in fact, it expects nothing less than a violation of the licensing policy and, in theory, the impossibility of the site’s operation. I’ve never put it into practice, although I’ll try it in the near future.
How to do everything right?
Required:
- license key from UMI CMS (the one that has already been activated on the test domain)
- working email
- about a day's head start (correspondence is not a quick thing)
- obedient hands
What are we doing?
- go to the website http://www.umi-cms.ru/ in the support section (at the time of writing this article - http://www.umi-cms.ru/support/)
- In the “License key” field, enter the required license key and click “Check”. We receive a form for contacting the care service
- We present our situation in the form presented (blah blah blah, we are moving the site from the test domain to the main one, help). It is advisable to indicate the name of both domains at once so as not to raise unnecessary questions
- If you’re lucky, in the response letter they will immediately write that they have removed the key’s binding to the site and you can safely reactivate it. (or they will ask for something there and then there will be a small swing)
- After this, you can safely transfer the site
What then?
As soon as the site is transferred, you need to relink the site to the old key. But there's a catch.
Activation must occur on a domain name without (!!!) WWW. If it happens with WWW, problems may arise. So be sure to pay attention to this. The final mirror from WWW can be specified in the future and this will not be a problem.
How to activate?
I quote: “ In the administration panel, in the “Configuration” module, you need to delete the line containing the domain key and click “Save”, after which your site will display a form in which you will need to indicate your license key and click “OK”.»
Everything seems clear and simple.
NOTE: After deletion, the site will be completely inaccessible, with the exception of the key entry form itself. Therefore, try not to delay this operation, especially since this is already the main domain.
Legitimate question: what if you don't activate?
The very first problem I encountered was the impossibility of changing the password on the administrator (well, apparently not only on him).
This is most likely due to the fact that the domain specified in the settings differs from the existing one. And, judging by the seriousness of this moment (few people put a cool password on a system in development), surprises can be expected in the future if the necessary actions are not taken.
So I think it's worth activating. Moreover, the license has already been purchased.
That's all. Enjoy it for your health. Hope I saved you some time.
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