Ask yourself this: If you need to contact your webmaster right now how long do you have to wait for a response? If it’s 3 days or more you may be in trouble. 9 out of 10 my new clients always say their previous webmaster has ‘moved on’, is ‘too busy’ or has just disappeared …
After installing WordPress you are ready to start posting but there are a few industry accepted best practices you should do to improve security and functionality. Here’s a checklist: Prevent listing of the following directories./wp-content/wp-content/plugins/wp-content/themes//wp-content/uploads Reason: Unless the webserver disallows it the contents of these folders will be viewable to the public potentially allowing the …
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WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS) which was created to do one thing and one thing well: publish content on the internet quickly and efficiently. It’s an application by itself which optionally uses other smaller applications called ‘plugins’ that extend, modify and improve various parts of the website’s functions. A typical WordPress installation will …
Once you set up a VPS on Linode you will also need to set up email by installing a Message Transfer Agent such as Sendmail or Postfix. If you do not set up Reverse DNS however, your webserver will not be able to send out email, and if you send out an email to a gmail address gmail …
The Government Web Hosting Service (GWHS) requires all government agencies to host their websites on their servers and use a standardized Government Web Template. While there is a helpful User’s Manual the instructions to upload are meant for Windows users which is not applicable because the only way to upload is via CPanel. This How – To aims to help …
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I have had people asking to put a chat function on their website. These are the questions I ask them first: Do You Have Staff That Can Monitor This Chat Account The Whole Day? Everyone knows it’s frustrating to call a service hotline no one answers. That would be the same situation here. It is …
You have a website but no one is tasked to update its system. This is true for websites that run Content Management Systems (CMS) such as Drupal, WordPress, Joomla and the like. An update may be as minor as correcting spelling errors on the code to security updates that patch a hole hackers can use …
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From experience with clients who made websites only to leave them untouched, unloved and neglected, here is a short list of reasons why you should NOT have a website made. #1. You Think ‘Taking Care Of A Website’ is A Job For A Techie During a group meeting with a client CEO and various department …
Many business owners just want to establish their place in the web so that when someone Googles them they will be found. Others just want to keep their business from looking like a fly by night operation and show anyone who searches them that they are legitimate. Still others have sites done to ‘show off’ …