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Archive for May 2009

Website Dimensions and Designing for the Web

Ensuring your visitors can see all of of your site without having to scroll horizontally is vital and so it’s important to design your site with this in mind. Over the years there’s been a steady increase towards a higher screen resolution and now 1024×768 is a fairly standard resolution to design to. Read more

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Create an HTML Signature for Apple Mail

Apple Mail is great, such a pleasant email client to use for work and play but there’s one frustrating thing and that’s that there’s no obvious way of creating an html signature. So you’re stuck with just having text. Read more

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Secure your Wordpress Blog

When anything gets big and popular there are always unscrupulous folk out there wanting to hack your site or as they put it showing you the security downfalls of the software. With that in mind you’ll need to secure your Wordpress Site so they can’t get in and ruin your site. There’s a number of steps to follow, as shown here. Read more

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Forward your emails to one address

Earlier we spoke about how to redirect domains to your main site. To add to this it’s worth setting up a forward/redirect for all emails that people may send to those other urls. Using cPanel we’ll show you how. Read more

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Stay secure, use more than one password

We’re all guilty of it – you generally have one, maybe two, passwords that you use for everything you log in to on the web. Now, we all know this isn’t the most secure way of doing things but when you have to have usernames and passwords for hundreds of sites then how are you supposed to remember more than one or two? Read more

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Remove the Wordpress Meta Tag from your Blog

Whenever you create a new Wordpress Blog a Meta tag is automatically added to every page. This can be a hackers paradise as they can hunt around the web for Wordpress Sites and then target them in their next attack on the web! Read more

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Redirect your site the Search Engine Friendly way

If you have more than one domain and you’d like to point them all to the same webspace then the best way to do it is using a 301 redirect. This informs search engines that your domain has permanently moved and so will not affect where your site ranks in search results. Read more

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