Newer Versions of iPhone

In the directions below, wherever it says “yourdomain.com” substitute with your domain name.

1. Tap “Settings” app
2. Tap “Mail, Contacts, Calendars“
3. Tap “Add Account…“
4. Tap “Other” (bottom option)
5. Tap “Add Mail Account“
6. Enter Name, address (full email user@yourdomain.com), and password.
   (iPhone will attempt to guess your settings. Allow ~1 minute for it to fail.)
7. Select IMAP.
   (It’s the default. The option you’ve selected will be highlighted blue.)
   (This option synchronizes data with your server. This is helpful if you retrieve email from your computer also)
8. Under “Incoming mail server”
   1. Set “hostname” to mail.yourdomain.com
      (or your server host name or server’s IP address)
   2. Set “username” to email@yourdomain.com
   3. Set “password” to your password
9. Under “Outgoing mail server”
   1. Set “Host name” to mail.yourdomain.com
      (or your server host name or server’s IP address)
   2. Set “User name” to email@yourdomain.com
   3. Set password to your password

You are now ready to send and receive emails via your iPhone.

If you are unable to get this to work, please let us know so that we can help.

How Can I Migrate My Google Data from One Account to Another? 

Dear Lifehacker, I have multiple Gmail accounts and a Google Apps account. I have to sign in to one for Google Voice, into another for docs and Gmail, and use the third for Google+.

The latest milestone for WordPress (codenamed Green) is being pushed to WordPress site owners everywhere.

I’d like to discourage immediate updating. There have been many changes under the hood and some of your favorite plugins may be affected.

I will post updates as I learn of compatibility updates or major crashes.

############### UPDATE ###############

3.4.1 is out with a number of security updates. Now would be a better time to upgrade.

Be advised that you can visit the wordpress codex website to see if an plugin author states that his or her plugin is compatible with 3.4.1

Lifehacker.com posted a fantastic info graphic that you should read at least once in your life.

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.

WordPress 3.2 is out – Handle with Care

If you spend any time in your WordPress site, you may have noticed that version 3.2 is available for an update.

If your website uses a slideshow/slider, this update will probably break it. Right after testing the new version on our Focus Web Works site, I upgraded one of our clients. The first thing we noticed (after the cool new look for the dashboard) was that her slideshow stopped working.

I’ve since done quite a bit of research and discovered that most slideshow/slider plugins are not working.

One more thing… It turns out that the WordPress developers group has decided to sunset Internet Explorer 6.0. This means that you should avoid upgrading if a large portion of your clients use IE 6.

If either of these situations are a concern for you, we recommend that you wait on that upgrade or at least contact us about your options.

Sincerly,

Nohl Lyons