Sep 8, 2020 | Email, Technical Help
On occasion, Microsoft Hosted Exchange or Microsoft Office 365 email users may have an input box pop up requesting that you enter your username or email address and your password. At times this can persist and become most annoying. This creates even more difficulty if...
Aug 19, 2020 | SEO, Technical Help, WordPress
The WordPress version 5.5 was rolled out sometime around the beginning of August. It’s developers boast there are 157 enhancements and feature requests and 307 bug fixes. Those may seem like high numbers – especially the bug fixes. However, WordPress is...
Aug 6, 2020 | Hosting, Technical Help, WordPress
It’s important to keep your website secure! CharlesWorks uses DirectAdmin on most of its Linux based servers. The latest PHP versions offer the best security. The later versions also offer better speed as well. The CharlesWorks web servers are optimized to keep...
Jun 2, 2020 | Technical Help
It’s very convenient to place an icon on your desktop so you can click and go directly to a Zoom meeting. This will save you the time and hassle of looking up your regular Zoom meeting addresses. This set of directions was created on a Windows 10 workstation....
May 2, 2020 | Email, Technical Help
Say you’re going on vacation and won’t be able to reply to your emails for a couple weeks – setting up an autoresponder is a good idea – you can write a message that will automatically reply to anyone who sends you an email, for example:...
May 2, 2020 | Email, Technical Help
To begin, you must first have the incoming and outgoing server information from your Web-Based Email account. This information will be used in steps 7 and 8. Usually, this information consists of the following: 1. Email server (incoming and outgoing) is usually...
May 1, 2020 | SEO, Technical Help, WordPress
In a WordPress site, one can upload the various photos to the website for use along with content to be displayed. The photos are placed into what’s called the Media Library in your site. From the Media Library, you can use them as needed in various places...
Mar 27, 2020 | Q & A, Technical Help
COVID-19 is dictating much of how we live our lives at this point. Most of us understand we are on the virus’s schedule – not ours. COVID-19 has dramatically changed lives in most communities. Working from Home Many who can do it are attempting to work...
Jan 20, 2020 | Technical Help
Replacing the batteries in most APC Back-UPS systems is usually a relatively simple task. A UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) system is an extremely important part of one’s computer system. It provides power should the power grid supplying your home or office...
Jan 1, 2020 | Domains, Hosting, Technical Help, WordPress
CharlesWorks uses Let’s Encrypt to provide SSL (Secure Socket Layers) for your web presence! Note: On websites hosted after January 1, 2020, CharlesWorks automatically offers the FREE Let’s Encrypt encryption service to offer SSL certificates for sites...
Dec 19, 2019 | Spam, Technical Help, WordPress
Google provides a free reCAPTCHA system that anyone with a Google account can use. It is much more effective because it is harder for form bots to figure out workarounds for. You must first acquire API codes from your Google account in order to use Google’s...
Dec 13, 2019 | Technical Help
Trying to fix “Browser not Supported” errors or “Browser no Longer Supported” errors Occasionally, you may get an error indicating your browser is not supported when visiting a web page. This error is referring to the browser that’s on...
Jul 27, 2016 | Email, Technical Help
You can access your SmarterMail accounts with a desktop client like Mozilla Thunderbird 10 by using either IMAP or POP3. Please note that currently Thunderbird 10 can only synchronize SmarterMail messages. IMAP allows all messages and folders to be stored on the...
Jul 2, 2016 | Technical Help
Your DNS cache stores the locations (domain names and their IP addresses) of web servers that contain pages which you have viewed. If the location of the web server changes before the entry in your DNS cache updates, you will be unable to access the site (or older...
