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Set up Gmail to access email from your hosting account

Select settings from inside your Gmail account Go to the Accounts and Import tab Click Add a POP3 mail account you own Enter your domain’s email address and click Next Step. Enter your POP3 information for your domains email address in the form. Click Add Account. The server does not accept PLAIN text passwords to […]

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Improve your success on the Web

With trillions of websites it becomes more and more important to stand out in the vast crowd of blogs and websites on the internet. What will give you the edge? Unless you know a lot of people willing to visit your site and interact on a daily basis you will need new sources to broadcast […]

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WordPress: How to link to any file in the Media Library

Sometimes it’s not too obvious how to use a certain file residing in your WordPress Media Library. It’s pretty easy to do from the (posts- or pages-)editor but what if you want to link to a file, image or PDF for example, in a custom text widget or a custom menu item? #1 Go to […]

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Master the WordPress Menu

This is one of those things that confuzzles more people than we anticipated. So let’s shine some light on creating and managing a website’s navigation, or simply: a menu. Create your own navigation, no GPS needed. Many themes support WordPress’ built in menu manager, some offering multiple menus to be displayed at the top(header), bottom(footer) […]

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eMail account setup demystified

Most of the following information is generally applicable, not just for our clients First Steps You have just bought a hosting account with your own domain name (yourdomain.com). In order to setup all the services that come with your account (mail, ftp, database, logs etc), your providers will give you administrator access to a management […]

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Create a custom text widget in WordPress

One of the most commonly used widgets is the ‘text widget’. We’ve found many authors using this nifty widget to create a ‘buy now’, ‘recently read book’ or any other nice piece of information. This widget supports html as well as plain text and what we see a lot is usually some copy/paste from a […]

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Passwords, The Safe Way

I remember a documentary about ancient villagers who never locked their houses. They were simply not afraid anyone would do anything of a criminal nature. Are you locking your house when you leave? Stupid question? Which lock resembles yours the most? Is it little better than a sticky piece of gum or do you have […]

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Protect Your WordPress

Following up on the humongous attack on all WordPress sites worldwide, early April this year… Honey, we’re ba-hack! We are very keen on having a safe environment for all our customers and last but certainly not least, we love having clean servers that do not execute programs written by hackers. Early this year we added […]

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How to use FTP

Following up on a client’s question, we decided to post an article on the best way to use FTP. When, Why, and How to use FTP? Your website resides on a server’s hard-disk, but unlike your computer’s hard-disk, most users never touch or see the files directly. All CMS’s provide necessary functions to upload images, […]

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Optimizing Images for your Website

Size Matters Images are great for spicing up your blog-post or setting an overall mood by using tasty background art. However you don’t want to slow down the loading time too much as this will eventually decrease you website’s visitors. Keep in mind that you probably have dozens of images already that are used in […]

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