Sometimes life happens. Where once there was a website, all you have now is an error page. Your hosting has expired, there are no backups, and you are panicking. So how can you recover your old website? The Wayback Machine! For those of you who don’t know: the Wayback Machine (also know as the Internet Archive) is a digital archive … Read More
New Website Design for The Anderson Center in Red Wing, MN
We are excited to announce the launch of our new website design for The Anderson Center. We’ve been working with The Anderson Center for a while now and are very pleased to be able to show off their brand new website with the world. We think the new website suits them quite well, and also is a massive upgrade from … Read More
Autodiscover.xml Error Office 365 Solution – cPanel
I ran into a very strange error the other day with one of my clients. You see, they had an external provider for their Microsoft Office 365 email hosting, and they were trying to take advantage of the “Autodiscover” functionality to automatically get their Outlook 2016 configured. Now, I’m not expert in email configuration or Office 365. I’ve helped clients … Read More
Best & Easiest ROI During the Pandemic?
So you’re stuck at home wondering how you can increase sales and grow your small business. Your options are limited and there are only so many things you can do with your limited budget. That begs the question: what investment would give you the best and easiest ROI right from your home? I believe the answer is, without a doubt: … Read More
Where to Sell a Website Hosting Business – We’re Buying!
So you’re looking to sell your website hosting business, and you want to make sure your clients are taken care of. You want the transition to be quick and painless, and you want to make sure you trust who you’re selling to. I’ve got good news: you found us! We’re interested in speaking to small business owners that provide website … Read More
Checklist of Ways WordPress Redirects to HTTPS + How to Force HTTP
This post might seem a little backwards but there is way less information for this topic than the other way around! I am regularly faced with the need to force http rather than the other way around. Disabling SSL and its inherent encryption is generally not something you want to do in ideal circumstances, but I suspect nobody is here under ideal … Read More
Redirect One File Extension to Another with .htaccess
For something seemingly so simple, it’s amazingly hard to find a good solution that redirects all files with a given extension on your site to another. I spent a long time Googling and testing and still kept running into issues. But my wasted time is your gain! Because I’ve figured it out. As it turns out, there is more way … Read More
Converting SSI / SHTM Sites to PHP in Minutes – Guide
I was recently lucky enough to purchase a local website hosting company, and I quickly discovered that about 30% of the websites used .shtm files. These SSI files used “HTML Include” directives to load additional content to each page, such as the header and footer. And they didn’t function – at all – on my servers. As it turns out, … Read More
Which Registrars Offer Free Domain Forwarding? A Roundup
Domain forwarding is a human right! …Okay, maybe that’s a bit strong. But in my opinion, such a trivial service should be included in the price of domain registration. You would think that all registrars would allow you to redirect your domains elsewhere to encourage you to purchase domains you don’t need. But sadly, some of the older, more antiquated … Read More
How to De-index Individual Pages in WordPress
For a variety of reasons, you may have some pages on your WordPress website which you need to prevent Google from indexing. There is a right way to do it and a wrong way. Maybe you’ve just received the nasty notice from Google regarding your robots.txt file and how you need to remove the “noindex” directives from within and have … Read More