Turning off smiley faces in wordpress posts
by DWHS Web Hosting Admin on 16/05/12 at 2:48 pm
This is just a very quick tip for your WordPress blog. One of the most annoying things about WordPress’s default settings is the fact that smileys are turned on by default. What’s a smiley, you say?When you put characters together like a colon and an closing parenthesis, WordPress replaces the text with a little yellow [...]
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Hello, We will be doing Routine Maintenance on Monday 05-02-2011 at 11pm Pacific Time. There should be no or little downtime during the updates and server check ups. If you have any questions please let us know. This is just a check up process to make sure all servers are running correctly, the upgrade of [...]
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Western Digital said on Monday that it was buying Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for the equivalent of $4.3 billion. The move includes a combination of $3.5 billion in cash as well as shares worth about $750 million. The deal will see the WD name remain but see Hitachi GST’s CEO Steve Milligan join WD as [...]
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Google made one of the biggest changes ever to its search results this week, which immediately had a noticeable effect on many Web properties that rely on the world’s biggest search engine to drive traffic to their sites. The major tweak aims to move better quality content to the top of Google’s search rankings. The [...]
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Google made a substantial revision to its search algorithm today, the company says. And while no one in particular is being called out, it’s clear that the big losers are content farms and related spammy-content producers who have been having an absolute field day on Google over the last couple of years. 11.8% of search [...]
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As you know WordPress has gone from a simple blogging script to a fully functional website builder. More and more people and businesses are using wordpress for all of their website needs. Today I wanted to find the best shopping cart options for WordPress. These are plugins that turn your wordpress website into a fully [...]
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As browser wars continue to heat up, Google Chrome finds itself trailing IE9 in one of its most compelling attributes – viewable web and application space. It’s a “less is more” world as speed and ease are replacing components and functionality for many (thus, the reduced market share for Firefox). To combat this, Google is [...]
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I love the new Aero look, very modern and clean with a cool web 2.0 feel. But it still does not address a growing issue. With more and more net books and phone computers we need more viewing space. I personanly use a 15.5 wide screen when I travel and need all the top view [...]
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On Thursday, the internet as we know it ran out of space. The nonprofit group that assigns addresses to service providers announced that, on Thursday morning, it allocated the last free internet addresses available from the current pool used for most of the internet’s history. “This is an historic day in the history of the [...]
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New customer service phone number
DWHS has combined all of our numbers into one, the new number now is 213 984 HOST (4678). The old toll free numbers and direct numbers will phase out over the next couple weeks. If you have any questions please let us know.
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HTML 5 will change the web
Many folks who are just tuning into the HTML5 saga because of the battle between Adobe and Apple are surprised to learn that the push to create a fifth official version of the HTML specification began six years ago. And that’s just the first half of the story because the latest implementations, while nice, are [...]
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10 things to be careful with when making a website
We all know that design is the first thing to attract the users to a site. Depending on the success of the design, the other parts can work for sure. Whether it is your ecommerce site to showcase and sell the products or a site through which you provide various services, the design has to [...]
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