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Scan PCs Daily With Norton Anti-Virus

Dear Web Guy: I have Norton Anti-virus on my laptop. I still get viruses. Am I doing something wrong? –Sick of It in Chicago Dear Sick: Norton Anti-Virus catches most viruses but not all. PC Viruses are continuously changing and you have to allow regular updates and do constant scans outside of the scheduled. To [...]

E-mail Forms Should Be an Instant Connection

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I can’t get my e-mail form to work. So you have a form, but you aren’t getting your messages? Maybe they are going to you@yourdomain.com or whatever the default was in the script that your Web Guy put on your page to protect your e-mail. Regardless, this isn’t good, missed questions via e-mail are like [...]

Facebook Link Should be Easy

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How do I link my site to my Facebook page and get a Like button? You want one of those “Like us” on Facebook icons on your site probably because it’s one way to update that portion of your website, right? But because you don’t know how and your Web Guy won’t train you, you [...]

Google Maps An Easy Add-on

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I just found out about Google Maps and want it on my site so how do I do that? Google Maps is a great tool for businesses that have brick and mortar street locations and that are also online. Google Maps comes up in local searches, gives directions and is something you can update yourself. [...]

Site Domain May Be Expired

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Your domain has expired You go to your site and it says that your domain is hosted by GoDaddy, network solutions or a multitude of other registers. You don’t know what to do. Your Web Guy set it up for you and your domain is under him. There are ways to get it back, but [...]

Site Domain May Be Expired

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Passwords Can Keep You Out of Your Site

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I can’t find my passwords so how can I get into my site? The web guy set it up, but now you need your passwords in order to make changes, right? Many times you can contact your host unless you don’t know who your host is? There are tools for that too, but things can [...]

Some E-mail Addresses Will Draw SPAM

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Why am I getting lots of SPAM? Every day you are getting 30 messages promising you health, wealth and computer help, but you didn’t sign up for these e-mails. Maybe it’s because you have an info@yourdomain.com e-mail address, or maybe it’s because your e-mail address is plastered all over your website like stickers on a [...]

Improperly Built Sites Can Increase Hosting Costs

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Why did my host sent me a bandwidth notification? You don’t know why you went through 1500 M/B’s this month, but they are saying that every additional meg is going to be XX or they want you to upgrade to a more expensive package. You don’t know why? Maybe it’s because you are hosting a [...]

Website Appearance Varies by Browser

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My site looks fine in Firefox, looks terrible in Internet Explorer. Why? There are many different browsers and sites look different in Firefox than they do in Internet Explorer. Why? Internet Explorer conforms to its own set of standards. Firefox is more in line with the W3C standards, but Explorer reads padding and positioning statements [...]

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