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Do you like to “sign” your blog posts and emails by typing your name at the bottom of the text block?
If so, you can give your writings a more personal appearance by inserting an image depicting your handwritten signature below the last paragraph of text.
There are several ways to created a signature image, but here are two of the easiest methods that I have found: [Read more…]
WordPress is by far the most used blogging platform available today thanks to its ease of use and amazing configurability. Millions of blogs and websites are currently running on WordPress, including some of the world’s largest and most visited websites.
A wonderful new Kindle ebook called Unlocking WordPress – Easy Steps For Getting a Hosted Blog Up and Running Fast will help you start blogging right away by walking you through the process of creating your own self-hosted WordPress blog, step-by-step.
With the help of this easy to follow illustrated guide, you’ll have your very own self-hosted WordPress blog up and running on your own domain in minutes. You’ll then learn how to properly configure your new blog and customize it to suit your needs and preferences. [Read more…]
Security firm Dr. Web has discovered a new strain of ransomeware that’s attacking Linux-based web servers, encrypting their contents and demanding a ransome from the site owners in exchange for the decryption keys.
That means your website/blog could be at serious risk if your web hosting company isn’t very diligent about protecting their servers from the latest security threats. [Read more…]
If you’re a blogger, there are probably times when you find yourself in a situation where you need to take a peek at a website’s HTML source code? I do this fairly often, and chances are you do as well.
Virtually every web browser in use today allows you to display the HTML source code of the current web page with just a few mouse clicks, but the clicks required to do so vary from browser to browser.
But as luck would have it, there’s one very simple and super-fast way to display a page’s source code in any major browser, and it works the same way in all of them… [Read more…]
000webhost is one of the largest free web hosting companies on the web, because…well, they don’t charge anything for hosting their customers’ websites.
Approximately 13 million businesses and individuals have websites hosted with them, and now every one of those customers are at great risk of having their websites and other online accounts hacked.
I won’t post the link to 000webhost’s website because it is currently in maintenance mode as they try to mitigate the damage from the hack (you can Google it if you’re curious), but if you are one of their customers you need to take immediate action to protect your website’s information and sensitive customer data. [Read more…]