The tech world is a fast-paced force to be reckoned with. It constantly evolves and sprouts new phrases, terms, and many other things to learn about. Sometimes navigating the online world can be intimidating. It’s often overwhelming to try and understand which websites are safe and secure, which ones you should avoid, and how to […]
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Recently, the Google Chrome browser has started notifying users of the browser when they land on a site as to whether that site is secure or not. That message shows up in the top left of the browser address bar. If you want your website to show Google Chrome users that your site is secure,
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I was having a problem with my own website. Some of the blog posts had the wrong comments showing up under them. In other words, under blog post 1, the comments for blog post 2 were showing up – completely off topic. I first changed the theme back to the twentyseventeen theme. The problem went
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Use this plugin instead: WP Better Emails There’s not much setup involved. Just install and activate the plugin. You can modify the emails, but they work pretty good out of the box, so unless you really need to make changes, and you know what you are doing, I wouldn’t suggest changing anything. I changed the
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A domain name is a pointer to the address of your website. The real address to your website is an IP (internet protocol) address, which is a number in this format xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where the x’s are numbers such as 127.0.0.1 or 205.96.453.999 Since numbers are hard for most of us to remember, we have domain
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Building a website is like building a building. Before you begin, you need to have a plan in place or who knows what you will end up building! You need to see the website in your mind, or help your web designer see the website in her mind, before either of you ever start building
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I love WordPress! It’s a fantastic way to build a website without knowing how to write code. It truly makes web development easier. But, what a lot of WordPress website owners don’t realize is how easy it is for someone to break into their website. WordPress is Open Source software, which is a great thing.
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Even if you are using WordPress, you will often need HTML for posts, pages, widgets, etc. ALL websites, regardless of how they are coded or what tools are used, are eventually translated to an HTML page. Regardless of which framework or programming language you use to build your website, it will eventually have to create
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Adding Content to Your Site – Pages and Posts There are two main ways to add content to your WordPress website: Pages and Posts. There are many other ways, but these are the most used. It’s important to understand the difference between Posts and Pages: Pages can be hierarchical and posts are not. Pages can
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Creating Your Own Themes You can create your own themes if you’d like, but this takes some coding knowledge. You will need to be familiar with languages such as HTML, CSS, and PHP to create a new theme. This is beyond the scope of this class but we wanted to mention it here so that
