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How to Prevent Your Home Network from Being Hacked

How to Prevent Your Home Network from Being Hacked

A friend of mine just had her home network hacked into by one of her neighbours this week. She thought the router had been set up properly but it obviously hadn’t been! Many of the default settings on a router may not help to block out someone from getting in. If you can see other […]

October 29, 2014 By Jacqueline Hill Filed Under: How To Tagged With: blocking out hackers, network, router, security

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Using a Hard Refresh to Clear your Cache

Using a Hard Refresh to Clear your Cache

When F5 just isn’t enough to refresh the page you are looking at, you can try a “hard refresh”. While F5 reloads a page to refresh it (explained before in Refreshing the Page in a Browser), Ctrl-F5 goes one step further. It forces a refresh on the page to make sure you will be looking at the […]

October 27, 2014 By Jacqueline Hill Filed Under: All About Web Design Tagged With: browsers, cache, refresh

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Refreshing the Page in a Browser

Refreshing the Page in a Browser

When you are doing a lot of editing in a website, the first thing you need to know about is refreshing the page in the browser, when you are looking at your changes in the live site. All browsers store a lot of the information on a page locally on the user’s machine, in high […]

October 24, 2014 By Jacqueline Hill Filed Under: How To Tagged With: browsers, cache, clearing the cache, editing posts & pages, reload/refresh page

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What is TinyMCE?

What is TinyMCE?

One of the most commonly used plugins for WordPress sites is the BlackStudio TinyMCE plugin. This plugin allows you to create customised widgets thatyou can place in the sidebar for example. The widget can have any sort of content inside it, jsut like you can put into pages and posts. It ca have text, images, […]

October 23, 2014 By Jacqueline Hill Filed Under: All About Web Design Tagged With: BlackStudio TinyMCE, content, editing, glossary, MCE, plugins, TinyMCE, widgets

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What is a Responsive Website?

What is a Responsive Website?

A website with responsive design is one that adjusts itself to suit the screen width of the device it is being viewed on. In other words, it responds to the device screen it is being viewed on. If your site is being viewed on a wide screen on a desktop computer, the text and column […]

October 22, 2014 By Jacqueline Hill Filed Under: All About Web Design Tagged With: design, responsive design, viewing on different devices

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What is a Fluid Website?

What is a Fluid Website?

A Fluid website is one that does not have fixed widths set for the columns down the page. The content (the information on the page) flows across the full width of the screen of whatever device is being used to look at it. The best way to understand the difference is to look at a […]

October 22, 2014 By Jacqueline Hill Filed Under: All About Web Design Tagged With: design, fixed design, fluid design, viewing on different devices

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How to Make Pages Private (For your eyes only) Rather than Public

How to Make Pages Private (For your eyes only) Rather than Public

See the full explanation in the WordPress codex which explains Content Visibility clearly.

October 16, 2014 By Jacqueline Hill Filed Under: How To Tagged With: editing posts & pages, private, protecting content, public

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How to Add a Link to View a PDF Online in a Page or Post

How to Add a Link to View a PDF Online in a Page or Post

This uses a free online Google Docs tool to create a link to add to the page. You do not need to PDF file to reside in a Google Docs account – it should be a PDF that is in your Media Library.

October 16, 2014 By Jacqueline Hill Filed Under: How To Tagged With: editing posts & pages, embedding files, Google tools, PDF files, PDF reader

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Different User Roles in WordPress – Who can write content?

Different User Roles in WordPress – Who can write content?

In the User area of the WordPress Admin menu you can assign different rights to each User. Here is the standard set of user levels in WordPress: Administrator – somebody who has access to all the administration features within a single site. Editor – somebody who can publish and manage posts including the posts of […]

October 10, 2014 By Jacqueline Hill Filed Under: WordPress Tips Tagged With: user access rights, WordPress Users

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