This video will explain how to configure Gmail to remove the “sent on behalf of” when being read in Microsoft Outlook. When configuring Gmail to send as a different E-mail address you have to use the SMTP option if you want to hide the fact that you are sending from a Gmail account. The SMTP configuration is unique to where your E-mail address is being hosted. Below are a couple of places to find that configuration.

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How do I upgrade my version of WordPress?

Since WordPress version 2.7 there is a built-in automatic upgrade feature that can be found a couple of ways.  First and most obvious is on the dashboard.  On the home admin page of WordPress it displays the version of WordPress that you are currently using and an option to upgrade if there is a newer version.  Second, click on the tools option on the left-hand side and then choose upgrade.  If you are running an older version than 2.7, which does not have the automatic upgrade feature, then read this.  Please don’t wait, upgrade immediately.

How can I tell if I’ve been hacked?

If the permalinks to your posts look like:

you’ve been hacked!

What do I do if my WordPress site has been hacked?

First, upgrade WordPress to the latest version.  Then, find if there are any “hidden” administrators.  If you don’t have lots of registered users the easiest way to find users is in the table “wp_users” (assuming you used the default “wp_” during WordPress install) in your WordPress database.  To validate that the user you found has admin rights take the number from the “id” column in your “wp_users” and then look for this id in the “wp_usermeta” and match it to the “meta_key” column.  If the “meta_value” contains administrator, then this user has administrator rights to your WordPress blog.

I found another great article from Journey etc explaining a different way to find a hidden user.

Then, update your permalinks back to the way they were.  This should get your site functional again.  However, since you’ve been hacked and administrative rights have been compromised, I suggest you keep looking for other pieces of code that may have been inserted.

I also read a great article about this at Lorelle on WordPress.

1. How to display a login button on WordPress that doesn’t send users to the backside of WordPress
2. How to display the logged in users first and last name

Step1

The default login page for WordPress is http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin.  When you login to WordPress using this URL it immediately takes you to the backside of WordPress (not very user friendly).  The URL to allow a user to login and be sent back to the home page of your website is

 and the URL to allow users to logout and be sent back to the home page is

Step2

Now that the user can login/logout,  all that’s left is getting their First and Last name.  The code to get their name is

Conclusion

Now, to put all that together is

Of course, you can use any div name that you want instead of “menutop”.  Below is the CSS that I used for my div

BTW…I placed all of this in my header.php file.

Creating a brand name for your company is very important.  You probably spent a bit of time picking out the name for your company so that it was relevant to what you do, and possibly had a catchy sound to it.  People are used to sending E-mail to addresses that match the business that they are dealing with.  If they don’t match people become suspicious that they might be getting scammed.  It also looks more professional too.

HaggardHosting will direct your your E-mail to a hosted Google service that is free.  If you’re already familiar with Gmail, this is no different.  HaggardHosting is not allowed to sell Google hosted E-mail, however, the setup cost is part of the hosting fees charged.

Included is:

• 100 E-mail addresses with 7GB of storage per E-mail
• Each E-mail comes with a calendar with reminders via E-mail or SMS (cell phone)
• Google Docs – Create/Edit/Colaborate on Word, Excel, and Powerpoint documents online without the need for MS Office

The ability to update your website your self, without the need of contacting your website designer.  With the easy-to-use editor you don’t have to understand HTML or any other website language.  It’s similar to writing a document in MS Word.

• Add/Edit pages
• Upload pictures
• Update schedules/promotions
• Blog
• Change the URL of your pages

The power of marketing is amazing.  Humans get accustomed to seeing certain things (like logos) and immediately recognize and have a sense of comfort with that household product.  The favicon is an excellent branding tool.  Not only does it show up next to the address bar in your browser, but it also is displayed on each tab (assuming you are using a browser that supports tabs), and also in your favorites.  The human eye will focus on the icon as soon as it’s recognized and disregard the text.

To create a favicon you must first have an image that will be your logo.  The image has to be in either 16x16px or 32x32px size and either 8-bit or 24-bit color.  Once your image is selected to easiest way to get it to the proper size/format is to use a website the creates it for you.  Google for the word "favicon" and you will get many hits that will allow you to just upload your image and then you can download the finished result.  Here are a couple of examples:

http://www.favicon.cc/
http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/

Once you have your image upload it to your webserver.  Then, modify the your code between the <head> and </head> of your website with the following text:

If you are using WordPress this will be in the header.php file within your theme.

I found a free tool that will save you so much time. 

http://www.crossbrowsertesting.com/

This website offers several different browser/operating system combinations.  I used this to find out that Internet Explorer 6 doesn’t support transparent background in PNG files.

Well, if you want your users to be able to click that image as a link to open another website or document it might put a blue hyperlink border around the image.  Most website images are designed that most people understand that it’s a link without the link border.  In fact, most people would consider it a bit old fashioned to see a link border around an image.  You might be using a theme for a CMS like WordPress or Jumla that has already taken this into consideration.  If not, there are a couple of ways to remove it.

First, you can modify the HTML code directly.  Using the previous example it would look like this:

 Second, you can modify the CSS (Content Style Sheet) which is a much more efficient way.  Using an external CSS allows for all pages to be updated at once.  To use an external CSS you must call it out in the <HEAD> of your HTML.  If you’re using wordpress this is most likely located in the header.php file of your theme.  An example would be: