Websites

What is an htaccess file?

Published March 24, 2012

An .htaccess file is an Apache Web Server file that is looked at by the server before it serves up your website. It can be very useful for things like blocking users with specific ip’s from visiting your site. It’s a text file usually in the root directory of your website.

WordPress creates it’s own entries to the .htaccess file so if you decide to play around make sure you backup your original and don’t delete the WordPress entries.

Here’s some examples…

If you are tired of getting the same spam comments from a specific user over and over again you can ban the ip address like this by adding the following code to your .htaccess file:

Create an IP Banlist

allow from all
deny from 145.186.14.122
deny from 124.15

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Website Design Tips

Published January 2, 2012

Give them what they are looking for right on your front page. Some visitor that come to your website will stop at the Home Page unless you give them the reason to click farther. If you have a Blog Home page make sure your list of “Posts” are on your sidebar and the list should show more than the number of articles displayed on your front page. If you display 5 articles on your front page then list 10 or more. Also Categories and Tags are good to display in the sudebar so visitors can sort articles by Category and Tags or Keywords. If your site is setup with a fixed front page rather than a blog page then make sure you have easy to see links to the other pages that you want people to view. Make sure its right in front of their eyes and make sure your most important things are towards the top.

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Have Your Own Online Magazine

Published October 27, 2011

How would you like to have your own Online Magazine or news site. You can have one for your community, your family, your club or even your business. You can have different contributors or authors and post news, information and other articles to attract and entertain visitors. You can have different sections with similar topics, photos, videos, polls, slideshows and more. With WordPress we can make this happen for you and its not that difficult to maintain and keep updated. Contact us today and we’ll get you online in no time at all.

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WordPress for Rental Properties

Published August 15, 2011

Another great application for a WordPress Website is a site for your Rental Property. With a WordPress Website you can be found through search engines and with your own domain name you can easily pass a link out so people can go and get all the information they need on your rental property. Shore house, mountain cabin or a condo on the beach, you can display photos, give descriptions, and provide details on close by attractions. With WordPress you can do all this easily and very cheaply. You can have your information available 24/7 to potential renters all year long. Here’s an example…
www.rental-lbi.com

Contact us today and we can set you up by tomorrow. Domain name, hosting and website.

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Bernie Parent Uses WordPress Too!

Published October 30, 2010

Bernie Parent, the famous Philadelphia Flyers Goalie, uses WordPress for his website and blog to keep everyone up to date with what’s going on in his life these days. We are very proud to be working with Bernie and his website and WordPress has proven itself the Best website engine you can find. Bernie’s site is a combination of Photo Galleries, Videos, pages of info on Bernie and the BLOG. With WordPress Bernie can login and post announcements and articles he wants people to hear about. He even has a little store with Bernie Parent Memorabilia you can purchase. Check him out at www.bernieparent.net

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Membership Websites using WordPress

Published October 3, 2010

If you want a website that allows for members to be able to view exclusive content and yet still have some content available for unregistered visitors then WordPress is the way to go. Using a plugin called WP-Members you can do just that. It even provides a registration form that includes additional personal information. You can block posts and pages so that they are available only to members and if a non member goes to one of the blocked pages they will get told it is exclusive content and they will be presented the registration form. We’ve tested the WP-Members plugin and in fact used it on a few business sites and it works very well. So here’s the answer to a membership website for your club, business, or association. We would be glad to help you develop your own membership website, just Contact Us.