Becoming Familiar with Plesk's Interface

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

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The right part of the Home page, your working area, shows the following sections:

The navigation pane on the left provides access to the following sets of functions:

Below the Help shortcut, there is a context help tip area. It provides a brief description of the current screen or available operations. When you place the mouse pointer over a system element or status icon, it displays additional information.

If your hosting plan includes the Web site creation and management service using Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder, the following shortcuts are also shown in your control panel's navigation pane under the Sitebuilder Administration group:

Also, on every domain management screen of your Plesk control panel, the Sitebuilder Wizard button is shown (Home > domain name > Sitebuilder Wizard). You should use it for accessing the Sitebuilder Web site creation and management wizard. For more information, refer to the section Creating and Publishing Web Sites Using Sitebuilder.

To navigate through Plesk, you can also use a path bar: a chain of links that appears in the right part of the screen, below the banner area. To return to a previous screen, use the Up Level icon in the upper-right corner of the screen.

To find items in lengthy lists, use search boxes located above every list of items: type a search criterion into the input box, and click Search. A list will show the items matching the search criteria. To return back to viewing all items, click Show All.

To sort a list by a certain parameter in ascending or descending order, click on the parameter's title in the column heading. The order of sorting will be indicated by a small triangle displayed next to the parameter's title.