Are you planning to design or redesign your website soon? If so, then here are a few tips that will hopefully guide you to some better decisions in that process. Don’t use music You may be tempted to add music to your website. Resist this urge! When you create a website, you want to encourage ...
Sitemaps are simple XML files that Google and other search engines use to find the content in your website. If you have a Waypoint site, you can generate this file easily. Check out this short video that shows you how to generate this file and set it to update itself automatically.
HTML is the backbone of everything online. Everyone should know how to read it and write it! OK, well maybe not everyone needs to go crazy learning how to work with it, but for those who post content online it would certainly benefit to have a rudimentary understanding of it. Here are a few reasons ...
Posting to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other social media sites is a great way to interact with your customers. You’ll wind up spending a lot of time working on content to write up and add to these sites. But which should you be posting to? The ideal thing to do is post to several so ...
It’s possible. CSS only. No javascript. No funny-business. Most of the time I do this for a footer on a website. (See www.weissauctions.com, or our own site even, www.twinharbor.com). The footer should stick to the bottom of the page (or the parent element). If you resize the window and the content doesn’t fill the screen, ...
Today I copied a parallels image (Windows Server 2008) from my imac to my macbook. For some reason, I got the following error message when I tried to start it up: The virtual machine cannot be used because its files are corrupted. A bad file copy on the network? It turns out no. This message ...
Mac OSX caches DNS data to enhance performance, which is nice, however sometimes when you’re moving a website or server, you want to see the new DNS data. Here’s a quick little fix to clear the DNS cache in OSX. Open terminal and enter: (Max OSX 10.5 Leopord and up) dscacheutil -flushcache
I’ve been grappling with this one for a while now, and I finally came up with a solution, so I figured I better post this someplace because when it comes time for me to do it again, I need to remember how! Sometimes you want to get a list of records, and join them with ...
* Featured, * News, TSQL ProgrammingGoogle maps has made it incredibly easy to add an interactive map to your website. The video below shows how easy it can be. If you have a Waypoint site, we show how you can add it there, but it can be easily added to any HTML page.
* Featured, * Featured Lower Section, * News, Tech Tips, Twin Harbor News, Website Management TipsWe’re very excited today to announce a really cool new feature now available in all Waypoint sites! The Code Block widget has been upgraded to include support for <form> tags, and other types of content. As explained in the video, the code block widget allows you to post nearly any html content right onto your ...
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Are you planning to design or redesign your website soon? If so, then here are a few tips that...
Sitemaps are simple XML files that Google and other search engines use to find the content in your website....
HTML is the backbone of everything online. Everyone should know how to read it and write it! OK, well...
Posting to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other social media sites is a great way to interact with your customers....
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