I just recently moved a WordPress site I've been developing using a different domain name to its final destination as a 'live' site. I've done this several times before but this time I wanted to document the process for future reference. The development site is sdspreview.com. The
Received an email from Constant Contact today: "Last year, your efforts to manage your clients' accounts and engage with their customers were exemplary. Stellar. We certainly noticed. So we are thrilled to name you to our roster of 2015 All Stars based on your performance. This annual
I was working on an existing website one day, and the next day, I get Connection Timed Out errors while trying to view the site. I could view other sites just fine. It seemed to be just this one site. After some research, it appeared that
At first glance I thought this project would be straightforward. Just move the membership data from one database to another. As I dug in deeper, I realized it would be quite challenging. This post will document the process. First, I analyzed the Drupal database to get an understanding
I recently received an email that was 'from' Paypal, thanking me for my generosity. As far as I recalled, I hadn't made a Paypal donation recently, if ever. I wondered if someone had used my login information and made a donation. Then I examined the
Recently a client contacted me about having difficulty logging in to the dashboard of their WordPress website. Sure enough, each time I attempted to log in, a 'Connection was Reset' message was displayed by the browser. The frontend of the site displayed correctly. Upon closer
I recently read on one of the Expression Web groups that I belong to that Comcast is discontinuing their Personal Web Page service (PWP): "Effective October 8, 2015, the Personal Web Page service (PWP) will no longer be available. Comcast will be switching to a new
Even if there are no new WordPress updates to install, I go ahead and log in to each of my WordPress sites on a periodic basis and check for any plugin updates and check to see how backups are doing. This week, I noticed that several
A couple of weeks ago, I clicked Send/Receive in Windows Live Mail to retrieve my hotmail messages and got this error: Unable to send or receive messages for the Hotmail.com (*********) account. Server Error: 0x80072EFE Server: 'https://mail.services.live.com/DeltaSync_v2.0.0/Sync.aspx' Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x80072EFE Luckily I found the answer here, tried
Here's a great tip I use often when adding content to a website for a client. Sometimes the content I'm given is in all CAPS. Rather than re-type it to change the case to lower, I use online tools such as http://convertcase.net/. All you do