On mobile web browsers, iOS specifically, web pages are parsed and rendered very differently than they are on desktop based browsers. iOS first renders the page to a “canvas”, then fits that canvas onto the screen. This makes accurate measurements somewhat irrelevant because the zoom level is always changing. I’ve found the best way to fit a website onto a mobile browser such as iOS based mobile Safari is to use the “viewport” meta value as shown below.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=1000" />
Just be sure to set the width of the viewport value to the width of your page plus the padding you want around it.
Once you have an email account active you are obviously going to want to check it to see if you’ve received emails or send one yourself. We make use of an Open Source, web based mail client called Horde. If you’ve used any web based email client such as Gmail, Horde will feel very familiar.
To login to your email visit webmail.yourdomain.com replacing “yourdomain” with the domain of the email account you wish to check. You will be taken to the login page shown below. Simply enter the entire email address as the username, the password and click login.
Once logged in, you may run into a screen asking to perform maintenance on the account. We all know email accounts can get out of hand so this maintenance aims to keep your box clean and running fast. We suggest performing the maintenance to delete old attachments but you may skip it if you wish.
Once you land in the actual account, all you have to do is click the main link on the left.
That’s it! The rest of the interface should be fairly straight forward. Click New Message to compose a new email or click on the subjects of any of the emails in your mailbox to read them.
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Plesk makes it very easy to create site-wide backups. This backup will include your website and all it’s files, any databases that you’ve created and all your email.
To login to Plesk, visit yourdomain.com:8443, replacing “yourdomain.com” with your own domain. You should reach a screen similar to the one shown below.
Once logged in, click on the domain you wish to backup as shown below. You will most likely only see one domain, unless you host several domains with us.
Once you reach the Domain page, click on the backup icon as shown below.
Once in the Backup Manager, click the Backup Now button.
This final page allows you to customize the name and settings of the backup you’re about to run but the defaults will work just fine. Go ahead and click the Backup Now button and the backup will begin shown by the screen below. This may take some time depending on the size of your website.
Once this has completed you’ll be taken to a screen displaying a summary of your backup. Once you see this screen, you’ve backed up your website successfully, you may click ok and log out.
To add a Joddit mail account to Microsoft Outlook, simply Open Outlook and on the upper left main menu, pull down Tools and click Account Settings as shown below.
In the account settings dialog, click the New button on the top left as shown below.
In the Choose E-Mail Service window, click on the Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP or HTTP radio button as shown below and click Next.
In the Auto Account Setup dialog, click the Manually configure server settings or additional server types check box at the bottom left as shown below.
In the Choose E-Mail Service dialog, click the Internet E-Mail check box at the top left as shown below and click next.
In the Internet E-Mail Settings dialog, fill out the text boxes using the following information which corresponds to the image shown below, then click More Settings.
- Your name written normally
- Your full email address
- Choose POP3
- Enter mail.mydomain.com replacing “mydomain.com” with the domain in which you created the email address.
- Your full email address
- The email address password
In the Internet E-Mail Settings dialog, click on the Outgoing Server tab, then click the My Outgoing Server (SMTP) Requires Authentication check box and click OK.
I’m an avid reader of Bob Parsons blog and bits of news about his company. I’m sure you’ve heard of his company, GoDaddy, which is on track to close in on $1 billion in sales this year. In an article written by Ryan Nakashima for Associated Press, Parsons remarked that “less than half of small businesses in the United States have websites”. This was something that I just HAD to examine further.
Not that I doubted that the owner of the largest registrar in the world would have his facts straight, I just don’t buy into hearsay at face value. After some digging it turns out that Mr. Parsons was right!
American business owners, what are you thinking?
- Websites bring more value to your company than most other investments.
- Websites can do far more than you think they can.
- My generation (I’m in my mid twenties) and younger won’t even think about working with your company if you don’t have a website.
Websites are less expensive than ever these days. Get on the bandwagon and start building your online empire today!
Search engine optimization, or SEO, is a very misunderstood practice. I’ve put together 5 quick tips to get you closer to the top of Google, Yahoo, Bing and the other big search engines.
1. Get Indexed!
Submit a properly formatted XML sitemap to all the big search engines. Here’s how: Google, Yahoo and Bing
2. If it’s text, make it text!
Search engine spiders can’t read the text you wrote on an image. It can read it’s ALT tag but that’s it. If all of your important text are images, you can kiss your search engine ranking goodbye.
3. Good, Clean Markup!
Does your website pass the W3C Validator? If it doesn’t, tell your web developer that you want your site to meet HTML Standards Compliance!
4. Title Tags
Does each page of your website have accurate and unique title information? If it doesn’t, search engines could be ignoring some of your pages!
5. Meta Descriptions and Keywords
Does each page of your website have concise, accurate and unique meta keyword and description information?
Think I’m making this stuff up? Check out Google’s own search engine optimization tips.
What is SSL? Do I need it? Where should I use it? What kind of SSL certificate do I need?
These are all good questions. Hopefully with this quick blog post I can clear up some of the confusion surrounding the topic.
What is SSL?
SSL stands for “Secure Sockets Layer” and is used to ensure that only trusted computers have access to sensitive information. You can determine if you’re in a secure tunnel by looking at the beginning of a URL. If it’s http, it’s insecure. If it’s https, it’s secure.
Do I need an SSL certificate?
Situations where SSL is HIGHLY recommended include…
- Accepting credit cards or other payment information directly through your server. This does not include third party payment methods such as PayPal express.
- Pages that transmit sensitive data such as medical records or other private “eyes only” information.
- Pages that you simply want to project as “secure” to your user base.
Where should I use SSL?
Many people make the mistake of redirecting their entire website to make use of https and their shiny new SSL certificate. In short, this is a waste of processing power and bandwidth. Encrypting a web page with an SSL key, transmitting it over the internet, then decrypting it adds overhead to your page load times. Only direct traffic to https where you need the added security.
What kind of SSL certificate do I need?
There are many different levels of SSL certificate. Some make use of stronger encryption techniques and some even go as far as verifying your companies identity as well. Basically, if you just need to secure some information, an entry-level 128-bit or 256-bit certificate will do just fine. Spending that bit more to validate your companies identity is up to you, that’s more just for your user’s peace of mind than real security.
Hopefully this quick summary helped to clear up some of the confusion behind SSL certificates and https.
Lotus, the British automobile manufacturer, follows a very simply, yet strict motto of “Simplify and add lightness”. While some would argue that this process seems counter intuitive to today’s complex world, it’s proved itself significant in the racing world with win after win.
The 37 Signals war cry bears a striking resemblance. They’ve taken paradigms that other companies have made cumbersome, clunky and overly complex and simplified and lightened them. We couldn’t agree more with 37 Signal’s choice to simplify their software and that’s the very reason we use it.
Look into Jquery for easing the burden of complex JavaScript interactions. http://www.jquery.com. We use jquery extensively in our markup. It has improved the quality, compatibility and overall speed of our JavaScript interactions.
We’re seeking one talented, fast-paced, creative and unique developer to add to the team. The phrase “fast-paced” cannot be stated strongly enough regarding this position. We focus on EXTREMELY fast turn around times from the point when the customer signs the contract to deploying the site on one of our servers.
We do have some regulations and standards on the code that we produce.
- Fully table-less layouts (CSS based)
- Has to pass the W3C HTML and CSS validator based on the given doctype.
- Javascript and CSS practices must work flawlessly on all modern browsers. (IE7+, Firefox 2.5+, Safari 3+, Chrome 3+)
Contact us at info@joddit.com if interested.
Thanks,
The Joddit Team
