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Website Security [Video]
This is a presentation that I did for the Houston WordPress Meetup and the topic was security and keeping your WordPress website secure.
Read MoreWordPress Automation – A Big Picture View
Automate WordPress Video WordPress Houston Meetup presentation about automating WordPress internally and externally. Internal processes as well as automating marketing and business process. WordPress Automation Types of WordPress Automation Internal Vs. External Internal = Block spam, Backups, Schedule blogs, Compress Images External = Marketing, Business Processes, Data Collection Internal WordPress Automation Comment Management = Akismet Backups…
Read MoreHow to Delete A Google Review
It happens, sometimes you might review the wrong business. But, all is not lost! It is possible to delete a review so you can start over. Google doesn’t make it easy to find so I thought I’d give everyone a short tutorial. 1. Go to Google.com and login with the account you used to login.…
Read More6 Reasons Why Your Email Should Not Be Hosted With Your Website
As a web designer, I’ve been hosting websites for my clients for about 10 years now. I like being able to provide a service to my customer where I have a bit of control over the server configuration and I am not reliant on someone’s poor customer service or lack of features and specifications. It…
Read MoreTop Mobile/Web Apps
What is an app? Well, in In January 2011, the American Dialect Society named “app” the word of the year for 2010. That action alone says a lot. An app is just a shortened by specific piece of software or application. It usually is fine-tuned for a specific purpose like note taking, photo editing, or…
Read MoreWordPress Tutorial – Adding and Linking to a PDF
This WordPress tutorial will who you how to add a PDF document and link to it. It will also show you how you can either upload a new PDF or link to a PDF you already uploaded.
Read MoreCommon email issues and their solutions
This post goes over some common (and not so common) email issues, as well as their solutions. Email can be tricky sometimes, so hopefully these general solutions help a bit! Q: Why is my email not working? A: The first important thing to check is whether it’s the email client (Outlook, Thunderbird, Mac Mail) that’s…
Read MoreSpeeding up Websites, Part 1
As many are learning, Google has announced that one of the factors that will improve your SEO performance and, naturally, your user’s experience, is by speeding up your website. At GlobalSpex, we’ve always been cognizant of this but more for our customer’s and their target market rather than search engines. By using CSS, alt tags,…
Read MoreStuck Print Jobs on Windows
Sometimes your various print jobs might get stuck in the printer’s queue. If you’ve tried deleting the job in the printer’s job list (right-click and select delete). Below are the steps I follow: If you are on Vista, Windows XP or Windows 7, go through the following steps to restart the printer spooled files. Go…
Read MoreCan’t send SMTP Email?
If you are having problems sending email using your own mailserver, make sure that your ISP has not blocked your domain’s IP or SMTP port 25. Recently, Comcast has done just that. I’ve had a flurry of issues and have had to make changes to my client’s outgoing settings in their Outlook. There are various…
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