How to set up email for Outlook is a common question. First thing you do is navigate to your hosting account control panel, and while these very somewhat, many will use the popular cPanel brand (as I provide for my hosting clients), so this is what I will be illustrating. Login to cPanel by typing…
First I should note that WordPress, and other content management systems, often have their own provisions for 404 pages. For this reason this post is for the HTML websites. One thing that is often overlooked with HTML websites is the need of custom 404 pages. In case you are not familiar with the “404” terminology,…
While most hosting servers will have the necessary provisions to ensure that modern scripts can be executed without issue, every once in a while I come across a client who has a hosting account that doesn’t have the basics needed to process dynamic scripts. In some cases a client will choose hosting that is provided…
When you need to upgrade your WordPress theme you’ll receive a notice that reads “The following themes have new versions available“. In most cases you’ll be able to do a version upgrade from WordPress by selecting “update theme”. Unfortunately this is not always the case, for which you will receive a notice about an error…
Security on the Web is undeniably important, both with one’s personal computers and the websites stored on hosting servers. I have dealt with a variety of hacker intrusion issues over the years, and most have been of the SQL Injection or email malware type. Just recently one of my clients acquired a trojan which resulted…
A question I am often asked is how to get a domain specific email address. There are a few options here, so I wanted to provide you the most common options. My long time favorite for mail is Gmail. It provides a great deal of space (10 GB currently for the standard account), the tools…
I wrote not long back about some recent changes with our hosting account control panel “cPanel”. If you are unfamiliar with cPanel you can view a live demo here: View cPanel Demo User ID: x3demob | Password: x3demob In this post I wanted to feature some additional areas that many clients ask about. Password Protect…
For those of you who use us for hosting, or use cPanel with another provider, you have may have noticed some changes. Not long back cPanel upgraded to version 11.34, and with this came a variety of enhancements. If you are not familiar with cPanel it allows website owners can easily manage their email accounts,…
The problem with GoDaddy is that they recognize that many people are unclear on what is needed for a domain name and web hosting, so when people come to purchase something from them they (similar to what VistaPrint does) throw a variety of add-ons at you during the checkout process hoping that a buyer’s lack…
GoDaddy.com is one of the most popular domain name and hosting companies, and since working within the GoDaddy environment is not always so easy (and they have changed things a bit with their recent update) I thought I would talk a bit about how to navigate the common areas. Firstly, when you log-in you will…