Broken Link Checker is a great little plugin that keeps track of all the links on your site and ensures that the pages they link to are all up and running and responding as they should be. It’s one of those little essentials that we often forget about, at least until we login and it [...]
Apple provides a very handy video on exactly how to do this! Just click here to watch. When configuring your publishing location as FTP, fill in the host as ftp.yourdomain.com and use the FTP username and password as provided in the email we sent you when you first signed up with us. If you need [...]
Do you have an application that you manually installed on your website? Don’t you just hate updating it due to the hassle of backing up all the files and database every single time? Worry about updates no longer by importing your WordPress, Joomla or just about any web application into our web applications installer utility. [...]
With all of our web hosting packages you have the ability to enable spam protection using the Spamassassin scoring system. If you have already enabled your spam filter, skip on down to the “Training to the Rescue” section. If you haven’t yet enabled it, follow the directions below to do so: 1. Login to the [...]
Yesterday, Mark Maunder at markmaunder.com happened to run across and identify a very dangerous and clever hack on his site. The hacker had gained access through the very popular TimThumb image library. If you are interested in the specifics of the hack, more detailed information can be found at his website: Zero Day Vulnerability in [...]
Here’s how to set up your email on any iOS based device, such as the iPad and iPhone. Before you begin, make absolutely sure that you are connected to the internet. Having the wireless symbol in the corner does not necessarily mean you have a working connection; to confirm that your internet connection is functioning [...]
Apple’s Mail application is a simple and powerful method of managing your mail, whether it be custom hosted, Gmail, Yahoo, or just about any other mail provider. However, if you’re getting a bit sick of the same old two or three pane mail application, you must check out Sparrow. Sparrow is available on the Mac [...]
Choosing an FTP or SFTP application shouldn’t be a difficult process. This overview will suggest a great application that works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X called FileZilla. It will show you how to configure it to connect to your server, how to set up the appearance for the simplest usage, and then talk [...]
While you’re waiting for your domain name registrar to update the name servers, you may still want to view and test your website, even though visiting yourdomain.com in a browser isn’t working. There’s a trick for this! And we’ve got it all here for you to play with. This is great for when you first [...]
We spend a lot of time in the back end of a WordPress system. Whether we are helping clients with changes or technical support, or making changes or additions to our own sites there are several wordpress plugins we use to make our lives easier. A lot of these plugins are quite popular and you [...]