Cannot Connect to Workgroup Computer on Network

June 5, 2009

Network problems can be caused by all sorts of things, including aggressive firewalls, a faulty network installation, and even a defective or disconnected cable. Recently, however, I stumbled across a problem that didn’t respond to the usual solutions. Everything was installed properly and even without any firewall running, I couldn’t connect to other computers on [...]

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Changing WordPress Blog Title, Tagline, Permalinks, and Admin Nickname

June 3, 2009

After installing WordPress, one of the first things you should do is make sure the blog title and tagline are correct and that the author name for your posts is exactly how you want it to appear. In this post, I show you how to access and change crucial WordPress settings:

In your Web browser, type [...]

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Make a Website: Creating a Static Home Page in WordPress

May 29, 2009

In this series, I’ve been teaching the basics of making a combination website/blog using Bluehost, WordPress, and Thesis. Here’s what I’ve covered so far:

In Part I: Starting with Bluehost, I showed you how to open a Bluehost account, register your own domain name, and install WordPress.
In Part II: Changing the Look and Layout with a [...]

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Make a Website: Essential WordPress Plugins

May 27, 2009

In this series, I’ve been teaching the basics of making a combination website/blog using Bluehost, WordPress, and Thesis. In Part I, I showed you how to get started with Bluehost, register your own domain name, and install WordPress. In Part II, I discussed WordPress themes and showed you how to transform the look and layout [...]

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Slow Internet? Try Changing Your Domain Name Server (DNS) Addresses

May 22, 2009

Many problems can cause a slow or unreliable Internet connection, including the following:

Lousy Internet service
Firewall or too many firewalls
Defective Ethernet adapter
Router problem
Ethernet adapter speed setting
Corrupted communications
Overloaded DNS (Domain Name Server)

If you’re running a PC with Windows XP, I encourage you to check out a troubleshooting piece that somebody by the name of Belgarath posted on [...]

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Make a Website, Changing the Look and Layout with a WordPress Theme

May 21, 2009

In my previous post, “Make a Website, Starting with Bluehost,” I showed you how to sign up with Bluehost, register your own unique domain name, set up an email account on that domain, and install the WordPress blogging platform. With WordPress, you can instantly begin posting content on the Web and establishing your own Internet [...]

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Make a Website, Starting with Bluehost

May 17, 2009

You can take several approaches to creating and managing your own site on the Internet, starting with low-end stuff like creating a free blog on WordPress.com to high-end stuff like hiring a professional designer to set up everything for you. In this series, I lead you down the middle of the road. This series assumes [...]

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Making and Managing a Website as a Blog

May 14, 2009

Blogging software has become so sophisticated that most people no longer need complicated and expensive website creation and management tools to build and maintain a Web presence. In less than 30 minutes, you can register your own domain name, install the blogging software (also called a blogging platform), make a few tweaks to the design, [...]

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YouTube Video Stops or Freezes

May 9, 2009

Starting a few weeks ago, whenever I would try to play a YouTube video, it would play maybe a quarter to a third of the video, and then stop. Clicking my browser’s Refresh button didn’t help, so I tried clearing the cache – the temporary files Web browsers store that often cause problems. That didn’t [...]

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Address Mailing Labels or Envelopes with Mail Merge

May 8, 2009

In my previous post, “Converting Text to a Table for a Mail Merge,” I showed you how to transform a list of names and addresses into a Word table in preparation for a mail merge. In this post, I show you how to complete a mail merge to place the names and addresses from that [...]

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