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How to enable TLS 1.2 on Windows Server 2008 R2
The Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials runs on top of Windows Server 2008 R2, which was an extremely popular server. It is still an extremely stable platform for handling DNS, serving up websites, and handling email servers. Despite being long past...
Sorting Outlook Hosted Exchange based Email using Webmail
Whether you are running a household or a business, it's easy for your emails to ultimately get out of control. Having plenty of space to store them along with fast access to them can save a lot of time and headaches. A number of years ago, we at CharlesWorks switched...
Continued Email Phishing Attempts
What is Phishing? Phishing is defined as the fraudulent practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers. Phishing attempts continue at an...
How to find your IP Address on Desktops, Laptops, Smartphones, Tablets
There are many times when we might need to know what IP address we are using. We at CharlesWorks use this information mostly for some Under Construction plugins. For example, to allow one to view a website that is using an Under Construction plugin without having to...
Using the Insert Pages plugin
We often want to be able to "include" some text from pages or posts into other pages on a website. An advantage of this is the ability to change it in one place and have those changes appear in other places without one having to go in and make those changes...
Adding text into a Divi Builder page on your WordPress website.
If you need to edit text in a page in your Divi Builder WordPress site for your restaurant's menu, or your store's hours, etc., you might find that sometimes it doesn't look the same as other text on the page. You might be trying to copy from a word document or a...
Your Website’s Inaccessibility Issues Might Get You Sued
I started CharlesWorks in June of 1998. One of the reasons is because it was very expensive to get on the web back then. I hoped to change that and make it easier for small businesses and organizations to get on the web. On the Internet user side, I believe everyone...
WordPress Forms
Many people like the idea of adding forms to their sites as a means of collecting information from site visitors. Anything requiring more time from the web developer will drive the website cost up. The same goes for the additional back and forth between the developer...
Divi boxed layout – full width on mobile
add following to css /*** Full Width On Mobile ***/ @media (max-width: 481px) { .et_boxed_layout #page-container { max-width: 100%!important; width: 100%!important; } #main-header, #top-header { max-width: 100%!important; width: 100%!important; } }
Correcting WordPress folder to subdomain URL changes using redirection
Sometimes we might go from a site located in a folder off the root of a site to a subdomain or site of its own in a standalone environment. Why would we want to do this? There are some advantages for separating out your sub-sites into separate sites: Security: With...