Free Video Editing Tools
With the ongoing popularity of online video sharing it is no surprise that there are many free video editing programmes available online to hone your movie making skills and create interesting videos that people will watch – Let’s face it , there’s usually only a small percentage of interesting footage in an average video. Creating […]
What does Digital Footprint mean?
Your digital footprint means whereby you have accounts on various websites and upload information about yourself and then maybe as time goes by forget about those sites but the information is still there. An example is that many people started a Bebo webpage and uploaded images and video of their lives and left it there, […]
Google Reindexing?
If you are wondering where your website is at the moment, or that when you run a search on Google that you are number 2 and then run the search again a hour later and you are on page 2 then you might get a shock alright. It may be caused by the search engine […]
Uploading to YouTube.com
We have had a few enquiries about the upload limits and time out on YouTube.com , If you are uploading to youtube.com note that the files you are uploading will be converted to yourtube format as they are uploading. This can take anywhere from 5 minutes to 30 minutes depending on the file size and […]
Which SMTP Server to use? (2)
We recommend using the out going mail server from your Internet Service Provider ISP, That is the company supplying your access to the net, the company that you get the broadband from: Imagine Briadband = mail.imagine.ie Perlico Broadband = mail.iolfree.ie Eircom = mail.eircom.net
Emailing Large Files
Email system were not designed for sending large files, a system known as “ftp” File Transfer Protocol was set up for the moving of files across the interweb. Nowadays that of course has gone out the windows as people are using emails for attachments, but if you have large files to send we might suggesting […]
Internet Register Ireland – SCAM
Internet Register Ireland This is a copy of an email and letter that is currently being sent to owners of domain names in Ireland. This German company is asking owners of domains to send them €958 euro to get listed on their internet directory. It is a SCAM and delete or shred it. The notice […]
Google Dropped my site?
Google will and can drop your website if the domain names expires. This is often the case when you forget to pay for the domain renewal. If your hosting or web development company sends you an invoice for “Renewal” pay attention to it. Today we had a company call in asking why their website had […]
Good web copy / Sitemaps / Landing page?
Create search engine friendly content, gone are the days of inserting paragraphs of keywords to fool search engines into thinking the content o fhtat page was abut that topic. Now they know the difference and will in fact penalise you for doing so (told ye!) Write for people, knowing that search engines will be reading […]
This Account Has Been Suspended – Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.
This Account Has Been Suspended Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible. We got a call today from a business asking what this means, When we looked up their domain we were able to tell them that the hosting company they were using in the USA had suspended their account for non payment. […]
Phishing Alert
What is Phishing? This is when a website is set up similar to a famous site and invites you to log in and update your details. Many Banks in ireland have had problems whereby someone has set up a website with a similar or mis-spelt domain that looks like the real address. Real businesses do […]
Can I sell a dot ie domain name?
Yes and No. If you are registering a domain name in order to sell it on then we would not suggest doing this as it is seen as cyber squatting and is generally frowned upon. However saying that if you have a dot .ie registered to a company or business, then you can sell the […]
Which SMTP Server to use?
We suggest that our clients use their own Internet Service Providers out going mail server. Using your own ISP’s outbound mail will cut down on the errors that can occurs with email sending. Our servers require Authentisification to be switch On, but others outbound mail server may have this swithed off. Clients on our server […]
Annual Support Packs V’s Annual Renewal Fees
There are annual support packages that you can get from your web company and there are annual renewal fees, so what’s the difference? Annual Support Packages These can be support contract agreements between two companies whereby one company agrees to manage and update a website for a business. These ammendments can be small text and […]
Choosing a Domain Name?
There are a number of issues you should think about when registering the right domain name for your business or company. Here’s our quick guide to getting the right domain name:asy to Rememeber Short Domain Name The best domain Entention Can people spell it ? Does it explain your business? Stick to the main stream, […]