We will be closed for election day (and Veterans Day). Although this is common for us we noticed that companies can now add their name to the list of growing companies that offer it off to their employees. http://takeoffelectionday.com/ See if your company is on the list. If not show your support and ask your…
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Transfer Domain Names
To transfer a .com, .net, .org, .biz, .tv, .us, .info, or .name to another registrar, the registry requires that you confirm an authorization code. The authorization code is unique to each domain name and is assigned by the registrar at the time of registration. Current registries assigning auth codes are: Verisign (the .COM and .NET…
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Mobile Websites: Separate or Responsive?
Which one is for me? There are two main ways to create a mobile website. One is creating a responsive website design. The second and often deemed less expensive route is the separate mobile website often with m.domainname.com or domainname.mobi for the domain. Each style has pros and cons and the type you go with…
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Dropbox Hack or Hoax
Today you may have heard about a Dropbox hack of 68 Million people's data but this isn't a new hack. This is a hack that happened in 2012. The thing that is putting this in the news today is that the files have been found on the internet and are being confirmed as the real…
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Email Marketing Best Practices
Check out a fun infographic for best practices for email marketing Email Marketing: All That Sizzles Is Not Spam infographic by obizmedia.
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How To Create An E-Mail
Our complete knowledge base for Email marketing can be found at: http://kb.blackrocknetworks.com Creating an e-mail message using our service is a simple process. Familiarize yourself with our sending guidelines. If you send a message that does not conform to our terms of service it will be rejected. The guidelines can be found here: Why was…
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Uploading your List of Subscribers
Our complete knowledge base for Email marketing can be found at: http://kb.blackrocknetworks.com File Requirements: The file can be in .txt (text) or .csv (comma separated values) format (i.e. mylist.txt, mylist.csv) and either tab, comma, semicolon, or colon delimited. We find that a tab-delimited, text (.txt) file works best. If you have the data in a…
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Ways to use Houzz.com
For more information about using Houzz as a professional, check out the following links: For architects: http://info.houzz.com/aug7webinar.html For designers: http://info.houzz.com/july31web.html For builders/remodelers: http://info.houzz.com/txwebinar.html also a relevant article for remodelers: http://bit.ly/Mow08M For vendors/showrooms: http://info.houzz.com/july31web.html
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Windows 10 finally surpasses XP
Looks like giving away the software for free worked. Of course so many people downloaded it because of that without testing to see how it would impact their software compatibility. I would be curious about the numbers of how many people uninstalled it. http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/02/technology/windows-10/index.html?iid=ob_homepage_tech_pool&iid=obnetwork
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Show Unread emails in Favorites Folder in Outlook 2010
So this has perplexed me for some time but not enough for me to dig deep into finding a solution, until now. Today I added a 5th email account to Outlook and decided it was time to solve this problem. Up until now I have all my "inboxes" under my favorites so that I don't…
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Turn off Suggested Videos on YouTube and embed in WordPress
Many people want to share their videos on their own website that have been uploaded to YouTube. A great idea considering that YouTube doesn't charge for hosting videos. (At least not yet) But often when you embed a video you get a whole list of suggested videos at the end once your video is finished…
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How to change your Webmail Signature Locations
Use the Signatures feature to make changes to your email signatures when sending through webmail. Click the Settings icon on the top right by your email account. Settings >> Composing Mail >> Signatures To add a new signature, click the Add New Signature button, and enter a signature name and a signature in the spaces…
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What does net neutrality mean for you?
It still amazes me that people would rather take sides based on political positions rather than determining what it in the best interest of the people. Take the Net Neutrality for example, most people seem to take their position based on talking points on TV and the internet. Of course the reason we can see…
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Using Contact Form 7
In many of the websites we develop in WordPress one of the more popular plugins we use is the Contact Form 7 plugin. It is fairly simple to use. A little short code added to a post or page and you have a contact form. Need a more customized contact form you cna add and…
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ICANN Goes International. Is it a good thing?
US Agreement With ICANN Leaves Much Undone "The oversight of the Internet's infrastructure will become more international under a new government agreement with ICANN. But many concerns remain unresolved." Not that I disagree in the idea that all people be involved in a free and open internet; I believe that opening ICANN up in a…
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