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Category Archives: Hints & Tips

2011
Dec
1

5-step guide to transferring your website

Already have a website hosted elsewhere? Here are some tips on making the transfer to new webspace painless: 1) Know your web hosting requirements First things first – you’ll need to make sure that the hosting account you are going to take out with Daily is at least the same specification as your current one. [...]

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2011
Sep
16

eShop – importing images via .csv

If you have lots of products, uploading all the necessary images and adding data to your online shop can seem like a daunting task. Here’s how the Import/Export feature can help make the task much simpler. The first thing to do is prepare your product images – you’ll need to make sure that they’re no [...]

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2011
Sep
9

What makes a good support ticket?

If you have a problem with your car and take it to a garage, you’d probably say to the mechanic something along the lines of: “Hello Mr. Mechanic! That car over there is mine. It started making a knocking noise a couple of days ago, usually happens when I brake. Can I book it in? [...]

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2011
Jun
13

Bulk Domain Management Spotlight

We know how time consuming it can be to make the same change, such as a contact details amend or simple web forwarding set-up, to multiple domain names at once. Step forward our Bulk Domain Management tool, which makes managing your domain portfolio much simpler for those of you with multiple domain names. We’ve made [...]

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2011
May
31

Safety and Security

There are a few grey areas when people hear about security vulnerabilities on websites. So, to help explain, here’s an example scenario: Picture a row of houses on a street (perhaps a cul-de-sac). All the houses were built by the same builders and have the same security features, like good locks and alarms. Occasionally an opportunistic burglar may [...]

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2011
Apr
11

Who goes there?

One thing that really makes us cringe is when we see a weak password on a customer’s website or email. To ensure security for your website and your emails, we strongly encourage all our customers to use strong passwords at all times. A strong password should ideally be: 1) At least 8 characters long 2) [...]

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2011
Mar
8

Windows Live Mail 2011

Another year and another mail client! Windows Live mail is a free mail client that is often downloaded at the same time as Windows Live Messenger and other Microsoft services.  We find that many users prefer using this free client  to something like Outlook Express, so we’ve put together a tutorial to walk you through [...]

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2011
Feb
21

Status Page

We occasionally get called or emailed by customers reporting a fault with our servers. This tends to make our Support guys splutter their tea and and our system administrators look like they’ve been electrocuted, as something very, very major (in fact, several things) would have to have happened if a customer was having to alert us to a [...]

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2011
Jan
19

Introduction to eShop 7 – Order processing

You have set up your shop, taken it live, and begun to organise your marketing to drive potential customers to your shop, so hopefully it won’t be long before the first orders arrive for you to process. For the seventh and final part in our Getting to know eShop series, let’s talk about order processing. [...]

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2011
Jan
13

Track website visitor behaviour with In-Page Analytics

It’s already widely regarded as one of the best website analytics tools there is, but did you know that Google Analytics had launched a beta version of a new In-Page Analytics tool designed to help you really get to grips with how your website visitors navigate around the page. If you’re already up and running [...]

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