Townsville computer repairs nerds have been developing and building websites behind the scenes for businesses, organisations, personal and professional for customers in Townsville and all over the world since the mid 1990’s. We have seen all the fads come and go, all the jargon and all the latest, lost and forgotten crazes. Even now customers come up to us all… Read more →
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Get Notified When Your Web Site is Down
Its happened to us all, specially in business. Your sitting behind your desk waiting for the phone to ring and nothing happens. I guess this ain’t totally abnormal, but after a few days you start to suspect maybe something is wrong. Maybe the economy is running slow again, or a national event? So, you start doing some Googling and see… Read more →
Should I Use a Web Hosting Company
Yes, you probably should. I am all for DYI projects and it is very easy to setup your own web hosting server. In fact, if you are only hosting a simple website for one business, the computer you are using right now probably has the specifications to run a basic web server. However, as your audience grows and more people… Read more →
Adding New Fonts to Wordpress
What is Wordpress Wordpress is an Open Source free Website and content managing system to build websites on. Wordpress is the most used website developer platform in the world ranging from small websites all the was up to the big stuff. The ability to quickly adapt and customise Wordpress quickly has made it the number one platform for most developers.… Read more →
Four of the Best Free Wordpress Plugins
What is Wordpress Simply put, Wordpress is an online website creation platform or tool to make websites. Strictly speaking websites are made from computer code and did involve basic knowledge or programming language like HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor). Some really smart people got together and created a tools called Wordpress which basically allowed you to make… Read more →
Lets talk about Wordpress
What is Wordpress Wordpress is easily the most used, most accessible, web site development tool used by more websites than any other platform on the internet. Wordpress provides the platform for anyone to make their own websites, CMS (Content Management System, Online Store, Gallery or pretty much any other online presence you can think of. The great thing about Wordpress… Read more →
Don’t Reuse Passwords on Multiple Sites
Just about every website and every APP we use these days require a password. There is much debate as to what in an effective password. Some say it should have complexity (a range of uppercase, lowercase, characters and numbers) and a lot of professionals now recommend it is actually good to put a bunch of words together with complexity. But… Read more →
Why Your Website Needs HTTPS
Looking around the internet and coming across a lot of websites here in Townsville, its quite easy to notice that a lot of websites are still using the unprotected http over https. HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol and is the way in which data is sent over the internet and between your web browser and website. This… Read more →
Make Secure Computer and Website Passwords
Having a good password these days to protect your computer and internet accounts might sound pretty obvious these day, you would still find it surprising however how many people are still using their name, or birth date etc. Gone are the days where we could just use something basic or even something up to 8 characters long with symbols. With… Read more →
Can I get a Virus from Youtube
Every now and again I get a customer who believes Youtube put a Virus on their computer. Although it is not out of the realm of possibility, it is highly unlikely. Youtube is owned by Google, a very big and profitable internet company. Google makes a lot of its money through advertisements, they probably do not need to put a viruses on your… Read more →