We’ve got a lot of friends using WordPress (WP) these days, and many have a question or two.
I’ve spoken with folks who wish they could sit down with their peers and see how they use WP, I’ve also talked with people who wish they could just run their site more smoothly.
Well I think it would be helpful to get a group together, have a website with links to all the best plugins and have answers to common questions and help a group out.
If this idea appeals to you, please fill out the survey below so I can work out a plan.
We’ve been pretty quiet at Focus Web Works lately.
This is partly because of projects and partly because our awesome clients have asked for some research and development.
If you missed it, we wrapped up the Ed Slott project in November: edslottintucson.com
We built a support site for a big client, Event Driven Media Partners: eventdrivenmedia.org
We’ve also added a new slide show for Tucson’s Golden Corral’s specials and community service: tucsongoldencorral.com
We’ve been busy updating press releases and updating staffing pages for DeConcini McDonald Yetwin & Lacy, P.C.: deconcinimcdonald.com
On The development side, we’ve been collaborating with software developers to create one of the best survey and quiz tools/plugins for WordPress. WP Survey And Quiz Tool: It’s become a very robust tool to add value to WP sites.
We have also been leaning some sophisticated new features for WordPress 3.0+, so it’s been pretty exciting.
Make sure your domain name loads. If it doesn’t load your your email account won’t work.
Make sure you have setup your email accounts at yourdomain.com/cpanel .
Make sure that you already have an account setup
You are now ready to begin setting up advanced email account settings.
Open Outlook Express
Go to “Tools” and click on “Accounts“
A “Internet Accounts” window will pop up. High-lite you account and click on “Properties“
This will open a window with 4 or 5 tabs. Click on the “Servers“tab.
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.
Now type in your username that you have setup from cpanel using the following format:”yourusername+yourdomain.com” rather than “yourusername@yourdomain.com”
Verify that “Outgoing Mail Server” has a check mark next to “My server requires authentication“
Next click on the “Advanced” tab. Set the “Outgoing mail (SMTP):” value to 26.
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.
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
Sometimes you can’t be there to explain something in person. Sometimes it’s just plain easier to show people then to tell people. Sometimes you need to show something to many people, but they can’t all be there at once.
A great solution is a screen cast. That’s where you record a session on your computer and then share it on your website for others to see. You can share a PowerPoint presentation or even steps to setup email. Higher end solutions let you add custom artwork, audio and your branding.
Contact Nohl at Focus Web Works to learn how you can do this too. The software is free. We like Jing
Focus Web Works is committed to empowering customers. With that in mind, I am very excited to share our latest service innovation: A whole site full of dedicated training videos to help you be more productive on your own schedule and at your own pace.
As if that isn’t enough, I am also working on a series of other tutorials to help with specific tasks in the cpanel file manager and using WordPress. So don’t forget to check back often
We’ve got a lot of friends using WordPress (WP) these days, and many have a question or two.
