I host my website and blog on a Virtual Private Server (VPS). Recently I moved my hosting location from the U.S.A. to Singapore. After a few clients have asked why I moved to Singapore and not Australian based hosting I thought I may as well blog about it. Australian Hosting costs are way too high […]
Archives for September 2014
How to add an image gallery to WordPress
Back in the old days it was difficult to add an image gallery to a WordPress website. Furthermore it was even more complicated to make the gallery look good or change the photos or drawings in the gallery once the gallery was created. Fortunately it is now really simple to add galleries with varying great […]
How to use lettering.js in WordPress
I had a need on a WordPress website to style the fifth letter of a specific word. In CSS there is no pseudo selector or otherwise that allows us to do this. We have, in CSS, pseudo-classes such as :nth-child but this doesn’t allow for targeting a specific letter in a word. There are also […]
Mailchimp Sending Domains
Due to the way that Microsoft Outlook processes email and email addresses, it’s often necessary for recipients to add sending domains (i.e. whitelist) as Safe Senders to the Safe Recipients List. For various reasons most of the transactional email services and email marketing services use multiple sending domains and IP addresses which causes a headache […]
Fix WordPress HTTPs Admin Permissions
I recently activated HTTPs on a WordPress website and immediately received the error You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page when trying to access the WordPress dashboard. I could view the website posts and pages but just couldn’t access anything within the Dashboard. Also every time I tried to access the Dashboard […]
What are the list limits in Mailchimp?
Mailchimp is mighty powerful. It’s quite astonishing how specific audiences may be targeted in a campaign using Groups and/or Segments. Of course, the more relevant the email newsletter is to the recipient, the more likely that person is to take action such as buy or click. As a very brief introduction here is the definition […]
How spam affects your email newsletter
If you’re not taking advantage of the amazing marketing opportunities that email newsletter services provide then it’s high time to get started. Whilst many thought that spam would kill off email newsletters, the advancement of anti-spam laws has furthered the effectiveness of this marketing medium. The major providers such as Mailchimp and Aweber have proactively discouraged spamming […]
