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Yesterday I wrote a post on how to add a custom 404 error page to Concrete5.  It has since been pointed out to me that I should show how it is done outside of a CMS. Why should we create a custom 404 error page anyway? Well, it’s just nicer to your site visitors – [...]

In parts 1 and 2 we created a googlemail account for our domain’s emails and then set our domain to use Googlemail. Now we’re going to configure MS Outlook to send and receive emails to we aren’t just limited to the web interface (and adverts) that Googlemail provides us with. Open up Outlook – click [...]

So – the next part of our task in moving email traffic away from our own server and leveraging Google’s vast infrastructure to concentrate on delivering better webhosting to our website design clients is to point our domain to Google’s mailservers. The instructions and screenshots below are for the WHM control panel but any domain control panel should [...]

I recently took a decision to test out Google apps googlemail service: as a web design company we not only host client websites but also their email. From time to time we have found email to be problematic, it takes up space and uses lots of bandwidth so we decided to test out Googlemail on a few [...]

A while ago we had someone get in touch as their OS Commerce implementation had been hacked into and their shop had been compromised by a malware distributor. The shop owner had been alerted by Google Adwords who suspended their account until they got it sorted. What this particular hack does is creates an invisible [...]

Sometimes you may find that your business outgrows your website or there may be another reason to move like a change of business name or just a rebranding. If you are moving your website to a new domain then there are some important steps that you should follow to ensure the switchover is as painless [...]

We promised yesterday that we’d post how to perform a 301 redirect if you do not have mod-rewrite enabled or the ability to add a .htaccess file or if you are using a windows server. To perform a correct 301 permanent redirect the User Agent visiting the webpage (maybe a web browser or search engine [...]

Yesterday we wrote a blog entry on the best way to move to a new site and explained that the best way was using a 301 redirect. We’ve since been asked how you do that so here goes. If you are using apache for your webserver then the best way is using a .htaccess file [...]