September 2008
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Email account vs email forwarder
It can be quite confusing deciding what will be the best way to create a new email address for your domain. Essentially there are two ways to achieve this: The first is to create a completely new email account that stores its emails separately on the server. In this case the emails are also downloaded [...]
Setting up a PC email account
The links below will open Flash Tutorials showing how to setup a new email account in your email client (program). Note that two things are required to set up email services on your PC: a server account (set up via cPanel on your hosting account) and a client account (set up on your PC). These [...]
Browser Based Editor Guidelines
Browser based editors such as those supplied with eCommerce or CMS applications are a wonderful innovation that enable non-technical site owners to easily create and edit content for their web site. Having said that however, there are still some issues that can lead to confusion. Most of these relate to the underlying format of information that is [...]
Image Filename Conventions
Filenames in Windows are not case sensitive. In Linux they are … and therein lies the cause of many images failing to display when they are first uploaded to a web server. There are several other traps as well so to help you get it right first time here are some suggestions: always use lowercase [...]
CMS Made Simple – adding YouTube video clips
Adding a topical video clip from YouTube is a great way to add interest to your website and is very easy to do. Just follow these steps: 1. Locate the video you want in YouTube (www. youtube.com.au), click inside the ‘Embed’ frame and copy the code (Ctrl+C) (see below) 2. Go back to the page [...]