A primary email address tied to your email provider could set you up for a great deal of inconvenience if they shut down. Registering your own domain helps control your email regardless of which company you’re currently using. On Thursday, 8th August 2013, a secure email service provider called Lavabit suddenly suspended operations. Its founder, […]
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I’m releasing my in-house tool for Drupal to WordPress migration. You can go directly to the download page for the latest version of the utility. If you’d rather let someone else do the work, you can find more information at my dedicated migration service page. When I started Another Cup of Coffee, we specialized in
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We use a web-based project management system called Basecamp which you can used to communicate with us. It allows you to send messages which are logged chronologically for your records. It also lets you assign tasks to us in the form of To-Do lists. This helps us keep track of outstanding tasks more efficiently. This
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The EU Cookie Law In May 2011, EU countries adopted the ‘EU Cookie Law’ (officially, the EU e-Privacy Directive). Essentially, it put in place legislation to force website owners to be transparent about their use of cookies and to ask visitors for consent. The legislation applies to all sites in European Union Member States, as
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Many Drupal-based sites create summaries when you upload a post. These are often shown in listing pages that show the first paragraph or so of the post. These post summaries called ‘teasers’ in Drupal and are extracted automatically from the main text. The software makes its best guess about how much of the text to
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Most computer users know about the importance of backups as it’s all too common to have years worth of information and memories wiped out by a computer crash. Generally though, the average backup strategy involves copying files into some sort of device in your home or office. This may be of little use if the
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Your Settings If you are hosting your email with our preferred hosting company, Rackspace Cloud, the settings for your email server are as follows. Incoming server: secure.emailsrvr.com Outgoing server: secure.emailsrvr.com Username: Your full email address Password: This will be sent to you separately Setting up a new account in Apple Mail Open Apple Mail and
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A client’s Yahoo email account was hijacked recently. She found out after an email was sent out in her name, to her entire contact list, asking to borrow several thousand pounds. This was such an obvious scam that no-one fell for it. Fortunately, other than some embarrassment and inconvenience, there were no serious consequences. It
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Login to your CMS at http://YOURSITE/user (replace YOURSITE with your own domain name). Create a new page or edit an existing page where you’d like to add the link. In the ‘Body’ editor box, type some text and highlight the words that you’d like to convert into a link. You may also highlight existing text.
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Introduction These instructions relate to your public website. It will show you how to upload a file to your server. Your site is controlled by a content management system (CMS) and there are several ways to achieve the same result. Here I will show you one method, but if you find it to be unwieldy,
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A common misconception amongst small-business owners is that you need your own email server. For most companies I’ve encountered, this is just not necessary. Before continuing, it may help if I explain some basics. There are essentially two ways to have email: Hosted email. This is when someone else manages the email server. If you
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