Resources
Review of Domain Name Tips
We've published information in the past about domain names. Whether your domain name is for personal use or for your business, we hope you find the following tips to be helpful. Keywords Having words pertinent to your business in your domain are increasingly...
WordPress updated to 5.5
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 enormously...
How to Choose or Update which PHP version my Website uses
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 your...
Common Bitcoin Phishing Message from online Scammers
The lost revenue to individuals and companies responding to and falling prey to these phishing messages is enormous. We in the web field lose considerable amounts of time that we could be working on websites answering queries about such matters. It is obviously part...
Adding a Zoom Link to your Desktop
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. There...
Setting Up an Email Auto-Responder or Autoresponder
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: "We have received your email....
Using Apple Mail with Your Email
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...
Improving Your Website’s Traffic
Discover key strategies to improve your website’s traffic by optimizing images in your Media Library. This guide offers simple yet effective techniques for enhancing SEO through detailed image descriptions. By adding alternative text, titles, captions, and thorough descriptions to your images, you can significantly increase your website’s visibility in search engine results. These steps are easy to follow and can make a notable difference in how your site ranks, helping you stand out from competitors.
Case Study: CharlesWorks Helps a Business Owner Save Thousands of Dollars
Meet Barry, a local restaurant owner. He'd been paying $450 a month for his website for the past 15 years. Barry had been thinking about moving to CharlesWorks, a web development company whose offices he often drove past. For many years he had never taken the leap. We...
Working Remote
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 from home. Some...