Search engine optimization (SEO) is crucial for small business owners looking to increase their online visibility and attract more customers. In the yarn, thread, and fabric industries, a strong online presence can significantly boost sales and help businesses grow....
Charles Oropallo
Unlock the Secrets: Effortlessly Prevent Caching on Specific WordPress Pages for Lightning-Fast Performance!
Caching can greatly speed up the browsing experience for your site visitors. Besides improving the browsing experience, this can increase the site's search engine standing. However, caching can sometimes cause issues with forms. In those cases, you might want to...
Solving Database Hard-Coded Addressing Issues When Moving Websites
When moving a database-driven content management system (CMS) to a new server environment, hard-coded addressing can cause issues with broken links and missing images. To avoid these issues, one solution is to export the CMS’s database to a text file and use a search and replace tool to modify any hard-coded addressing. This approach allows you to easily modify the hard-coded addressing without specialized database software or knowledge. However, it’s important to be careful when making modifications to the database and to thoroughly test the CMS after making any changes.
DNS 101: What DNS Is and Why DNS is Essential for the Internet
In this article, I delve into the intricacies of the Domain Name System (DNS), drawing from my extensive experience in online computer information sharing since 1977. DNS is a pivotal system that translates human-readable domain names into numerical IP addresses, facilitating computer-to-computer communication on the internet. Before DNS’s inception, accessing websites or servers was cumbersome, requiring individuals to remember IP addresses or rely on static tables. I reflect on the early days of online communication, highlighting my creation, Access-80, one of the pioneering Bulletin Board Systems. During that era, the DNS concept was in its infancy, and communication was primarily through IP addresses. With the introduction of DNS in the 1980s, accessing websites became more streamlined, eliminating the need to recall IP addresses. Today, DNS stands as a cornerstone of the internet, ensuring swift and easy access to websites and servers. This article underscores the evolution of technology, emphasizing the significance of DNS in our current digital age.
Another Lying Spammer’s BS
Forgive me if I appear annoyed. Unfortunately, messages like these are quite common. As website developers, we see them far too often. They waste our time. They are based on outright lies. What bothers me the most is that these messages frighten our web clients into...
My thoughts on Elegant Theme’s Divi Theme and the Elementor Plugin
When it comes to managing website content on WordPress, there are many tools available to help make the process easier and more efficient. Two of the most popular and powerful tools are Elegant Theme's Divi theme and the Elementor plugin. In this article, we'll take a...
Speed Up Your Website’s Page Loading using Redis
I intend to focus this article on yet another way of speeding up your website's page loading time. My focus here will be hooking up Redis to speed page loading in complex websites. Over the years I've noticed that website pages have become more complex to meet the...
DirectAdmin Server Let’s Encrypt Auto Setup
We have been using DirectAdmin a CharlesWorks since July of 2013. It has been extremely dependable. Support for it is great as well. This short article applies to web hosting servers using DirectAdmin's control panel. This function is especially helpful when restoring...
How to Reset or Recover the Joomla Super Administrator Password
It can be very frustrating to have gotten locked out of administrative control of your Joomla! website. The information here requires that you have access to your Joomla! website's database. That information can be gained via FTP if you have FTP access, or via your...
DirectAdmin Upgrade from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0 breaks Installatron
Installatron is a great server product. We have been using it since May of 2016 on a number of our website servers. Installatron is very cost effective and interfaces directly with DirectAdmin. It allows CharlesWorks staff to quickly set up websites on our servers for...