Setting up Google Mail for your domain email (you@yourdomainname.com)

Filed under Nerd Talk

So, if you read our post about New Thoughts on Your Email, and you want to send your domain email to Google, here’s step-by-step instructions on how to do it. They’ll be a video coming along soon.

If you don’t know how to access your domain email, check out this video first.

TO START FROM SCRATCH:

1. go to Google

2. menu at upper left: click on Mail

3. create an account now — this is your Google account, NOT your Gmail account

4. fill in email you’ll be forwarding, password

5. check verification at email, click on link

6. in browser (back at Google), click on My Profile

IF YOU ALREADY HAVE A GOOGLE ACCOUNT, START HERE:

7. click on Gmail

8. sign in with username & password you just created

9. Now you’re at the Welcome to Gmail screen. Create your Gmail account.

10. Next screen: Intro to Gmail. Click on “I’m ready, show me my account.”

11. Now you’re in Gmail. On upper right of screen, click on Settings.

12. Click on 2nd tab over, which is Accounts.

13. Click on Add another mail account.

14. User name is you@yourdomainname.com,
enter your password.

POP Server: mail.yourdomainname.com

VERY IMPORTANT! DON’T CHECK Leave a copy of retrieved message on server!

DO CHECK to have your incoming messages labeled you@yourdomainname.com.

Leave all else blank.

Click Add Account.

15. Click “Yes, I want to be able to send mail as you@yourdomainname.com.” Click Next Step.

16. Click Next Step again.

17. Click “Send verification.”

18. Check email on site for verification, click on link from Gmail.

19. Back to Settings>Accounts: When I receive a message sent to one of my addresses
– click on Reply from the same address message was sent to.

20. Test it out! Send an email from site to you@yourdomainname.com and check to see if it shows up on Gmail account. If it shows up in the Spam box, open it and then click “Not Spam.”

If that works, compose from Gmail account to you@yourdomainname.com (you should see it in the drop-down menu in the From field) and make sure that comes through with the correct return address.

21. You’re done! Now your site will be blissfully free of email storage.

New Thoughts on Your Email

Filed under Nerd Talk

If you’ve set up your email under your domain name (such as yourname@yourdomain.com), then read on…

If you have your email set up this way, then what you may or may not know is that you are storing your email in the same place (aka The Server) that you store your site. So, if you get lots of email, and you like to leave it sitting around for a millennium or so, it’s eating up space you could be using for your website. This is not problem if you a generous hosting plan (like our Mucho plan, or our new Phat plan), but the question you might ask yourself is: why pay to store email when you can get it for free?

If you have a Google email (gmail) account, or don’t mind getting one, we can forward all your email there so it doesn’t live on your website server. You can send mail that says it’s from yourname@yourdomain.com, but it’ll be coming from gmail, and no one will be the wiser.

Google will give you 3 gigabytes of storage, which is basically saying “unlimited,” since you could be storing emails since Arpanet.

Yahoo Plus! has the same capabilities, but you have to pay $20/year for it. Still pretty cheap, plus their email really has unlimited storage.

So, let us know if this is something you’d like, and we can do it for you, or we’ll let you know how to do it.

fGallery+ WordPress plugin | Table does not exist

Filed under Nerd Talk

I installed fGallery+ for a client but was getting an error message that the “Table wp_fim_cat does not exist.” On the forum it said this happens occasionally, it’s a bug.

Fix: copy the SQL code from fgallery-plugin.php for all three tables, change the table names appropriately, i.e.,

as is:
$sql1 = “CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS $table_name_images (
id smallint(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
image varchar(255) default NULL,
download varchar(255) default NULL,
date datetime default NULL,
title varchar(255) default NULL,
description TEXT default NULL,
cat varchar(10) NOT NULL,
status varchar(50) default ‘include’,
PRIMARY KEY (id)
)”;

cut ‘n’ paste into phpMyadmin:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS $wp_fim_images (
id smallint(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
image varchar(255) default NULL,
download varchar(255) default NULL,
date datetime default NULL,
title varchar(255) default NULL,
description TEXT default NULL,
cat varchar(10) NOT NULL,
status varchar(50) default ‘include’,
PRIMARY KEY (id)
)

GoDaddy, you’re so crazy!

Filed under Nerd Talk

Don’t get me wrong, I like GoDaddy just fine. But I’ve noticed that when I send some users to their site to register their domain names, they’re thrown into a panic by the constant attempts to sell, sell, sell! So, let me tell you, like I tell all my clients: ignore everything they try to sell you except the domain name and maybe, just maybe, private registration.

If you want to avoid all that mess, go to Dreamhost, a bunch of nice folks that’ll sell you a domain name without the fuss. They’re employee owned, don’t ya know.

Here’s some technical boondoggles I came across with GoDaddy hosting. Granted, this is based on my undiluted loyalty to cPanel.

-Databases are on a shared server with everybody in the world (the Godaddy world, anyway), so the database name has to be totally unique, like a password.

-the database name and username are the same

-in wp-config.php, you type in the host server given to you rather than “localhost”, i.e., h41mysql15.secureserver.net (the host server is found in the Control Panel > MySql> click on pencil icon on right)

-FTP: You need to put the Server IP address (found under Account Summary) not domain name.

-Server reads the index.php before index.html (non-standard), so cannot have an “Under Construction” page.

-While in File Manager, marketing for GoDaddy annoyingly scrolls on the right. Not the end of the world, but still…

Circus School of Arizona

Filed under PORTFOLIO | Arts, PORTFOLIO

Circus School of Arizona has a Flashfader header.

De Alba Communications

Filed under PORTFOLIO | Non-profits & Small Businesses, PORTFOLIO

For De Alba Communications, we were part of a time with Nancy Hom of The Hom Team, and developed a custom slide-out menu.