Geeky Bits – CompuScribe Communication Design

A good website is like an iceberg Or sometimes clients have the better words...

September 6, 2016November 4, 2014 by Marianne

I had been thinking on how to write concisely (and politely) about how small business owners might separate truth from hype, skill from pretense, know-how from jargon, when they are searching for a qualified person to do their web work. Unexpectedly to the rescue come my esteemed clients, Pascal and Lison of Pascal’s Patisseries who found the words that I didn’t.

How to reset your password in WordPress This may also work for other systems...

September 6, 2016August 23, 2014 by Marianne

The Kye Bay Community website was developed with WordPress. The site has information and posts that are available to the public at large, and also has a membership component that is protected with a login dialog. Members can access a private message board and protected blog posts, i.e. information that is of particular interest to the Kye Bay community (residents and owners).

Please note, the following steps only work if you are a registered user at a WordPress site. You cannot reset a password for a username or email address that doesn’t exist.

Infrastructure of a website Mom, where do websites come from?

January 9, 2017August 2, 2014 by Marianne

Before you can publish a website on the Internet, you need to set up some things. The following illustrates the structure of a website that uses a registered domain name.

DOMAIN NAMES
Domain names are unique
and cannot be duplicated.
They are a business asset
and can be bought and sold.
You cannot register a name
that belongs to a registered trademark.
Examples:
compuscribe.com
kyebay.ca
bahaidates.org

How do you manage your passwords? Improve your password hygiene...

October 24, 2017July 15, 2014 by Marianne

The biggest argument I hear from friends and clients when we talk about creating secure passwords is that they can’t remember them. So they stick to one or two stand-by words for all of their logins. That argument makes me cringe.

By now you know about computer viruses and malware and that they are relentlessly out there trying to get into our computer, device, website. Nobody is spared. In a previous post I explained about roving programs (often called bots) that are constantly (365/24/7) trying to get past the security setup of any online installation (or server), be it small or large, banks, blogs, email services, intranets, membership sites, absolutely anything that requires a login.

So how is your “password hygiene”? Yes, it’s a new term that puts a measure to your password or security awareness.

Who actually owns your domain? In other words, WHOIS your domain?

September 6, 2016June 27, 2014 by MH

There is an increased demand for fixing small business websites. The sites may need updating, are unfinished, or broken because of plugin overload or other incompatibilities. Someone else worked on the site, has left, and now the business owner is stuck and needs help.

Before I take the job I check the ownership of the domain. Why? I need to know how the business is structured online, and how difficult it will be to deal with registrar and hosting service providers to get access to accounts if needed. If the domain ownership is in question, things get complicated.