Keep your website safe!

In my experience website management is a must. If left unchecked your website could easily become hacked or controlled by another. Why does this happen? Simple, the internet is a place of evolution, it does not stop expanding, or evolving, and if your website does not keep pace it becomes vulnerable very fast.

Your site can become a place where "mailers" are stored by spammers. These nasty robots start pounding our emails unbeknownst to you or anyone else expect the Internet provider who will notice, and then start the downstream alerts, possibly leading to the shutting down of your website.

Regular maintenance is vital and is likened to the service an assistand manager lends to a store front. Some one has to sweep, clean the windows and lock up the store. Your website needs to be version checked constantly and all applications must be monitored from sites like the Joomla security site.

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Just published! A new interactive Project Manager

For registered members, we have launched a project management system that allows you to be more intereactive with the development of your project. All of the people involved in your project can interact with with the pn-line manager according to level of access granted to them.

You can create tasks and assiign them to milestones, Create calendar items, Upload any type of file, Customize and use your own private forum and of course cutomize your own profile.

When you register for an account you are automatically gramted access, but you will need to have or request to have project assigned. Contact us to get things started!.

Look for How to videos to be released soon!

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SPAM! UGH!

We all get it, all day long. Spam now accounts for well over 90% of email sent around the world. That doesn't mean we are not sending much mail, because we are in a very huge way. It's just that spammers are prolific, and it wasn't that hard to be that prevalant. A few scripts and a spammer an proliferate the net with mindless junk. It's not going to go away, at least not completely. In fact the powers that be have even suggested that perhaps we will pay for every mail sent! YIKES!! Let's hope it does not go that way.

Here is how I deal with email, and the 15 unique email accounts I run with:

I collect mail throughout the day and I use Mozilla thunderbird. I have used Outlook 2007 and 2003 (but it got so slowed I could not live with it).

1. Set your junk mail filters to HIGH
2. Collect your email regularily
3. Visit your JUNK folder after every collection and review what has come in. DO NOT OPEN ANY JUNK MAIL, just read the sender and if you do not know the person or company consider it junk
4. After the junk folder review delete the junk mail.
5. Do this after every collection and make it a habit.

I follow this process everytime and I do so to avoid an endless list of junk mail I have to inspect. I look through the junk folder to ensure no good emails have been filed and if I do find some I move it back to the Inbox and ensure that I tell the email program that it is not junk.

Yes it's a process but we have no choice right now, and I don't want to miss any important emails, and I don't want to scroll endless lists of junk...so....

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Keyboard Remapping GooRu how

1.) go to your control panel (start>>control panel)

2.) Locate the Regional and language Options launch it 3.)The Regional and Language Options window opens, Choose KEYBOARDS and LANGUAGE 4.)SELECT CHANGE KEYBOARDS

5.) The TEXT SERVICES AND INPUT LANGUAGES opens, Delete them all EXCEPT-US in the drop down list.

6.) Select OK

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This is how to blog. The component is made by IDO and all operations can happen from the front end. These instructions are for IDO Blog only and may not work for any other blog. Please note the Blog menu item in the Main Menu.

All blogs are written to the BLOGS category and as such we can deal with it just as we do with any other category.

The tags are for the search bots crawling the net, and can really help you increase your search engine friendliness. Watch your rankings grow as you blog.

1. From the front end of you site, login.
   1. This activates a hidden menu below BLOG
2. Under the Blog menu, choose Profile
   1. From the following screen choose EDIT PROFILE
3. Enter the information about yourself that you wish to have public. Choose the AVATAR tab to upload a pic of yourself (if you wish) see http://gooru.ca/index.php?option=com_idoblog&view=idoblog&Itemid=25 to see what it looks like.
   1. Press Save
4. To Write a blog
   1. Under the BLOG menu item, choose WRITE A BLOG
   2. Write whatever you wish and place Pics via the Image button below the content area.
   3. Attach files as you wish with the file area below the content area
   4. TAGS ARE VERY IMPORTANT - enter some keywords (that describe your blog) separated by a comma
   5. Press Save
5. Blogs are auto published and will show up in a scroll when the Blog menu item is selected.

Tags: blogging | How to Blog | IDO Blog | Blog

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Joomla 1.5+ and the BLOG component IDO Blog

Here is how to deal with your blog.

Facts:

·         The Blog component is called IDO Blog

·         The public can select the Blog link in the any menu assigned and view all of your blogs

·         You can assign your existing News Articles to the Blog, so now they show up on a scroll under your blog or you can use the default category "Blog".

·         Adding Blogs is done via the front end after you login.

·         Hidden menu items to control the blog will appear in the menu assigned (created in the back - end).

·         You can add Descriptors (know as TAGS) to each blog you write. These are picked up by BOTS that every search engine sends out to collect these tags.

HOW TO

1.       Login using the LOGIN link in the assigned menu

a.       Enter the title, write your blog (add images if you wish via the IMAGE button at the bottom of the content window)

b.      Enter the tags

c.       Press SAVE

2.       YOUR PROFILE

a.       Here you can change your avatar (image)

b.      Click Edit your profile and add your own words if you wish

3.       Viewing the BLOG

a.       Follow the Blog link from the top menu and see them all on a roll. Latest blog is at the top.

4.       Remember to LOGOUT when you are done.

Tags: IDO Blog | How to Blog | Joomla | blogging

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