Before starting:

1. Make sure your domain name loads. If it doesn’t load your your email account won’t work.
2. Make sure you have setup your email accounts at yourdomain.com/cpanel .
3. Make sure that you already have an account setup

You are now ready to begin setting up advanced email account settings.

1. Open Outlook Express
2. Go to “Tools” and click on “Accounts“
3. A “Internet Accounts” window will pop up. High-lite you account and click on “Properties“
4. This will open a window with 4 or 5 tabs. Click on the “Servers“tab.
5. Verify your mail server in each box.
   In the Incoming mail (POP3) field type mail.yourdomain.com
   In the Outgoing mail (SMTP) field type mail.yourdomain.com
   (so if your domain name is elitepolls.com, then you would put “mail.elitepolls.com” there). Click Next.
6. Now type in your username that you have setup from cpanel using the following format:”yourusername+yourdomain.com” rather than “yourusername@yourdomain.com”
7. Verify that “Outgoing Mail Server” has a check mark next to “My server requires authentication“
8. Next click on the “Advanced” tab. Set the “Outgoing mail (SMTP):” value to 26.
9. Just click “OK” and “Close” – send a test message. — Your done.

I built this for a presentation last week, but I’ve had lots of requests to see it again. This is a demonstration of how a web site is built using WordPress.

WordPress has been updated again. This time with some interesting new features.

Really there are two keys that will make managing you site easier.

1. Vastly easier linking within a site

2. A handy administrator bar to speed navigation while updating a site

There are also hundreds of minor improvements under the hood, but item 1 and 2 above are the ones that will help you out every day.

New intra site link example

I found a nice explanation of how to use the new linking feature here. Basically when you are editing a page or a post, you can easily highlight a word or picture, click on link and then search your own site for a post or a page to link to. Click! and you’re done.

The other helpful addition is an administrator bar that stays at the top of the screen while working on your site. This is really handy when you are reviewing the pages of your site and you want to jump in and edit a page, or just straight to the dashboard, or even review comments left on your site.

I might note that the Admin bar seems to have redraw issues with Google chrome. It draws the bar on the screen multiple times.

If you wish for introductory help with WordPress help, here are some helpful videos and online help documents. Note: we just added help with adding images. Not everyone wants to look for help on this feature

If you would like to see help on other topics, please notify info@focusww.com

1. Managing posts
2. Managing pages
3. Managing categories
4. Managing themes
5. Managing plugins
6. Managing comments
7. Managing users
8. Add images New!

Related educational articles: New!
Note: we want to streamline this help to make it more accessible. We welcome your comments and observations

1. WordPress documentation – First Steps
2. WordPress documentation – Jargon
3. WordPress documentation – Plan Your Site
4. WordPress documentation – Using Pages
5. WordPress documentation – Writing Posts
6. WordPress documentation – Using Images
7. WordPress documentation – Using Themes
8. WordPress documentation – Business Blogging and Shopping