Easy Website Builders

EZ Generator

The following two web design software programs are easy website builders. There's no need for graphical skills or HTML knowledge. The benefit to buying a website builder as opposed to using an online website builder is that you own it and you are not limited to the number of web pages or websites you can create. Just add hosting. Software Windows Mac OS X Cost … [Read more...]

WYSIWYG Web Design / Easy Web Authoring Software

The following table compares a number of WYSIWYG HTML editing software programs. WYSIWYG is an acronym for "what you see is what you get". Just add hosting. Software Windows Mac OS X Cost (USD) BlueGriffon BlueGriffon is an intuitive application that provides Web authors (beginners or more advanced) with a simple User Interface allowing to create attractive Web … [Read more...]

How to Leverage Browser Caching

Improve your Performance Grade by leveraging browser cache. Add the following code to your .htaccess file in your web root: <IfModule mod_expires.c> ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 seconds" ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 years" ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 years" ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 years" ExpiresByType image/x-icon … [Read more...]

Defending Against Global WordPress Brute Force Flood

There has been a massive distributed brute force attack being launched the past few days against every WordPress based website at every hosting provider on the Internet. Over 100,000 different IP addresses are currently attempting to guess the admin user's password in every WordPress site. By default, WordPress cannot protect itself against this type of attack, but you can protect against this … [Read more...]

Embedded YouTube Video Not Showing Up on Web Page

Embed Video Example

Embedding video onto a website is great! Saves you on valuable disk space, bandwidth, and CPU resources. I recently encountered an issue where I had embedded some video which appeared fine when using one ISP but not another. All that displayed was a black box. Not sure why it didn't show up for one ISP, but if I had to guess, I'd say data usage. To conserve data usage (particularly mobile … [Read more...]

Backing up your files

Backups

You should always keep and maintain your own up-to-date backups. You can easily backup and restore files from within the cPanel Control Panel. Any time you update your site, it is a good idea to backup files and store them on your local computer. To backup your files, login to cPanel. Please refer to your 'Welcome!' email for the URL to cPanel. Next, click on Backups. On the next … [Read more...]

If your domain is not yet resolving, you can still work on your website – How to edit and replace the ‘hosts’ file in Windows 7

If you have not updated the name servers for your domain name because you are not ready to go live, you can modify the 'hosts' file on your local computer. This will 'trick' your PC into resolving the domain name. Go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc Make a copy of the "hosts" file. Open the copy of "hosts" file with Notepad or WordPad and add a line at the end with the IP number where … [Read more...]

Using Firebug to Troubleshoot and Customize CSS

The Firebug extension for Mozilla's Firefox can make short work of finding and changing css elements in your design. It overlays the rendered code of your site in a split screen so you can see and change the HTML/CSS, while being able to instantly view the change. Learn how to install and use Firebug. … [Read more...]

How to replace the default favicon with your own

What is a favicon? A favicon (short for favorites icon) is the image you see inside your browser's title bar (tab) and bookmark menu when a site is called up. It is a good way to brand your site. How to Change the Favicon First off you'll want to create your favicon if you do not already have one. There are free and very easy tools online that will do that for you. The best size for … [Read more...]