Make Your WordPress Website/Blog More Secure
Is your WordPress blog or website still using the “admin” username? CHANGE IT! By continuing to use the “admin” log-in, you’re allowing 50% of the work to be done if and when someone tries to hack into your website. To get a new administration user without the user name of “admin”, take the following steps: Log in to your WordPress website. In the left column on the administration page, select Users>Your Profile. Because you will be deleting this “admin” account and creating a new one, replace the email address with a different one...
Read MoreTwitter Animated gif Files are Accepted for Profile Uploads.
I just found out today, 2/19/11, that Twitter will allow you to upload an animated file for your avatar. Of course, I had to test it out. Sure enough! It works! …but only on Twitter.com and not on Tweet Deck, Seesmic or other desktop clients. To view an example, check out my Twitter profile page. I started with two images at 200px X 200px. I cracked open PhotoShop and used the animation tool and worked the magic. Don’t get too crazy! You don’t want to annoy folks and make them block or unfollow you. Upload the image to your Twitter account. I think it would be best used...
Read MoreFree vs. Premium WordPress Theme
So, you’re setting up a WordPress website and discover all the free themes available out their. Many of them look really good and the “Price is right”. Then you discover a few websites that sell some premium themes. These look even better than the free themes! So, why are some themes free and some you have to pay for? Free Themes: Free themes are great, if you get them from a legitimate website. Most of those sites, I find, are pitching both free and paid themes. The free ones are usually sponsored by outside companies and links can be placed into the footers of the...
Read MoreCan They Spam Your E-mail Easily?
Do you use “info@yourdomain.***”, “contact@yourdomain.***” or sales@yourdomain.***”? These are a few of the typical e-mail accounts that people set up in their hosting company e-mail accounts. A few others would contain common employee names such as “john@”, “billsmith@”, “cathy@”, etc. Spammers pretty much know this and once they have your domain name, they will send out bulk spam messages to every typical name and combination in their database. If you haven’t created a certain e-mail account such as...
Read MoreAbout Me
I am Ross Hagen, a web designer and developer and also a commercial photographer. I help small to medium sized businesses create or maintain there online 24/7 presence while keeping inline with their budget.BFG web designon
