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Aldebaran Web Design now offers phone consultation services for folks who don’t have a website, or have a website designed by another developer.

These consultations can be used for general web design questions, WordPress blogging lessons, ECT (ECommerce Templates Online Store) help, or questions about Search Engine Optimization. And you don’t have to have your website designed by Aldebaran Web Design to use this new service - it’s available to everyone.

Cheers!

I had a client today upgrade her WordPress blog to 3.1.1 and when she clicked on any categories or posts, she got a 404 page not found error. Took a while of searching on the web but solution was found. Solution required regeneration of brand new .htaccess file and deletion of one plugin. Details are below.

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Here is information from GoDaddy on how to set up Outlook to read your GoDaddy based email:

Using Microsoft Outlook 2003 with Your Email

Using Microsoft Outlook 2007 with Your Email

Using Outlook 2010 with Your Email

Using Microsoft Outlook Express with Your Email

GoDaddy Product and Technical Support: (480) 505-8877

If your website hosting company is GoDaddy, you can go here to read your email:

https://login.secureserver.net

If you’re using a Mac, and using DreamWeaver to design websites, sometimes you need a tool to compare two files. I use TextWrangler for this, and wanted to list the instructions here in case someone else finds it useful (and because I’m tired of looking it up myself).

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One of my clients got an email today with this subject: RV: UPDATE YOUR E-MAIL SECURITY IMMEDIATELY (IUEU). It was from “Squirrel Mail Security Team”<[email protected]>. Since my client uses DreamHost as his hosting company (as do I and we both use SquirrelMail) I immediately contacted DreamHost and they said the email was a fake. I’ve pasted the body of the actual email below - but if you get this email, DELETE IT. Do not click on the link inside it, do not open the attachment.

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A good article today at Huffington Post: Google Chrome 10 vs. Firefox 4 vs. Internet Explorer 9: See Which Is Fastest

From the article:

“Though the competition is extremely close…Firefox 4 is strongly favored by HTML5 processing, boot time, and memory usage,” Rosenblatt concluded. “Overall, I’d judge from these results that Firefox 4 is the winner this time around.”

“In terms of safety, Chrome and Firefox seem to be the browsers of choice. The two were both unchallenged at this year’s PWN2OWN hacking competition, according to ComputerWorld.”

Go Firefox!

This is a great article on how to disable WordPress plugins if you are unable to access the dashboard:

Quickly Disable or Enable All WordPress Plugins via the Database

If you have an online store, there are times when for some reason, a transaction for a customer is declined. This article tries to explain the process, and why many banks will hold the funds, making them unavailable to a client, even when a transaction is denied.

Much of this information is from Authorize.net and from a very helpful online store merchant ArtisticGiftBaskets.com who have done a great job explaining what happens and have given me permission to repost it here.

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Often I get emails from clients without subjects. I know it takes a few seconds to type something in the subject field, and we’re all really busy. But here are two reasons that I will hope make it worth your while to type in a Subject:

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