Category Archives: Web hosting

Experiences, reflections, suggestions

cPanel for beginners 3: finding out about your visitors

Maybe it’s the dull words ‘statistics’ and ‘analytics’ that put Web site owners off. But which of us doesn’t want to know about our visitors? In my third tutorial on cPanel for beginners, I show you how to access this … Continue reading

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cPanel for beginners 2: setting up e-mail accounts

I have written a second cPanel tutorial, on setting up e-mail accounts. (I’m trying to write the tutorials in the order that cPanel beginners are most likely to find useful.) You can find my second cPanel tutorial in the Articles … Continue reading

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Use your cPanel to the full: a cPanel guide for beginners

Many of my Web hosting clients neglect cPanel. And I haven’t been able to find a guide or a set of tutorials on cPanel which I thought would be suitable for beginners. So I’ve taken on the job myself. You … Continue reading

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Alt text (revisited)

An end-of-year apology to my readers. I don’t post as often as I mean to. One reason is that my posts are becoming too measured—and too all-inclusive. So here is a quick tip for all my readers who are designing … Continue reading

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The 24-hour promise

I keep coming across these companies that promise you a top position on Google within 24 hours. Naturally, they don’t spell out how they are going to do this. They are simply feeding off the myth that there is some … Continue reading

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Domain name hyphenation (2)

On the 19th of June this year, I posted a short piece about whether or not you should use domain names with hyphens in them. My main aim was to suggest that this was an open issue—to counter “authoritative” statements … Continue reading

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Beyond Compare

My last post was about moving sites from one Web hosting provider to another. There’s something I didn’t mention which is very important. When you copy all the files from the old site, you need to preserve the directory structure, … Continue reading

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Moving a Web site (a tip)

I have just moved a client’s Web site from another hosting provider to Web Costa Blanca. This is a standard hosting service which we are happy to provide for anyone who wants the job done professionally, or hasn’t the time … Continue reading

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Is your domain name working for you?

A few years ago, domain names were considered so valuable in their own right that people paid large sums of money to speculators who had snapped up likely-sounding names on the off-chance. This doesn’t happen much any more. However, there … Continue reading

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How to catch spiders

As a site owner, you want visitors. To get visitors, you need people who are searching for sites like yours to find your site first. That means getting properly indexed on search machines (“ranking high for your keywords”). Which in … Continue reading

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