f you want to buy a domain name, you need to do it through a domain name registrar. These vary considerably in cost and the services they offer, so it pays to shop around. Be aware there are often different prices for the different top level domains (the .com, .org, .co.uk, .me and .uk parts) so if you want to …
ith billions of computers connected to the internet, how do you find the one you want? Likely, you haven’t given this much thought. You know that Google search is at google.co.uk, you can find your favourite website easily enough, so what does it matter? If you are wanting to set up your own website (or some other service on the …
hen you move house, you can get the Post Office to redirect your mail from your old address to your new one. In a similar way, we can get the computers to forward mail from one email address to another. There is also a related choice called an email alias, where people can use more than one mailbox name to …
o how do I send email out? In addition to the settings for collecting email that we’ve discussed in our previous article, there are some for sending email. Computers have different procedures for receiving and sending email, the sending one is called SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, which is a lie because it is anything but simple). The settings are …
o how do I access and read my email? The two main ways of getting at your email are running a program specially written to handle your email called an email client, and using your web browser to visit a website which is often given the name webmail. It is often easier to work with the email client, but webmail …
o how do I set up an email account? That depends on where you are going for your email. A number of companies, like Google (gmail.com) and Microsoft (live.com), offer free mailboxes on their domains. You choose a mailbox name which doesn’t already exist, and create the account with the company. Your mailbox name has to be unique at that …
mail is a way of sending a message to someone electronically. As you might expect from the name, it works very similar to the regular mail system. You write a message, put an address on it, then pop it in a postbox to make its way through a number of sorting offices until it is finally delivered to a mailbox, …
mages are great! They’re an important feature of every web page if you want to get your visitors attention and hold it long enough to leave a good impression. They can also play an important part in your search engine optimisation to keep you ahead of the competition. If you’re not careful though, images can make your website painfully slow …
ow do you create the perfect web page? Does such a thing even exist? Since Mary Poppins was “Practically perfect in every way”, that’s the goal we should set for every web page we write. Luckily for us, from a search engine perspective, there are many simple things we can do in order to make our web pages “Practically perfect”. …
earch Engine Optimisation (SEO) can be complicated, just as maintaining a performance car can be. There are some jobs best left to the experts, but there are others that can easily be carried out by website owners. Here are 5 easy steps that you as a website owner can take in order to optimise your web pages and improve the …