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.

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

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

Here’s an example (Just click on it to play):

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.

Visit our new site at tutorials.wowszer.com

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