There sure are a lot of moving parts to managing a domain of your own. This camp experience (which is open any time of year) will lead you through activities to become more familiar with cpanel, subdomains, web redirects, installing applications on a Domain of One's Own.
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WordPress offers two powerful ways to organize your site content. We suggest setting up a system / approach for doing this from the start. There is no one “right” way to organize your blog, and you can always modify and change as you use it more. But if you start using categories and tags, you… Read more »
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In a new WordPress site you first want to twiddle a few knobs and enter some settings that will make your blog engine run smoothly. Keep in mind these can be modified at anytime, but for a few of them, it’s better to do this before we start writing anything. In your dashboard find the… Read more »
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LimeSurvey allows you to administer and manage the data for web-bases surveys. I found it easy install but a bit of work to figure out how to create and publish a survey To set it up, I selected LimeSurvey from the selection of All Apps in the CPanel. Before you begin, decide if you want… Read more »
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Sometimes you will end up with a web directory structure that leaves a bunch of files exposed publicly. You may not want that. This happens when you install the Yourls app for example, visit the demo one we set up https://jump.extendlabs.ca/ or earlier when we created a web directory of “stuff” at http://extendlabs.ca/stuff. Not very pretty! This… Read more »
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We all probably follow a variety of blogs either through email subscriptions or RSS feeds. According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS) RSS (Rich Site Summary; originally RDF Site Summary; often called Really Simple Syndication) is a type of web feed[2] which allows users to access updates to online content in a standardized, computer-readable format. These feeds can, for example, allow a user to keep track… Read more »
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With your domain you can run your own service that does the same things as Dropbox, but all the files stay on your own server. With your web hosting account, you can easily install ownCloud: ownCloud is a suite of client–server software for creating and using file hosting services. ownCloud is functionally very similar to… Read more »
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There are plenty of free services for creating short URLs for content you create. They are handy for sharing long links (like the ones google apps create) and even making them more human readable. As an owner of a domain, you don’t need to go somewhere else where your links may one day vanish, or… Read more »
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Whether or not you have concerns about security for content on your domain, there are very good reasons for understanding to make sure your content is served over SSL, and how the http:// in front of web site addresses is different from ones that start with https://. The latter are sites that send content that… Read more »
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There’s more to a Domain of One’s Own than web sites! You have the power now to create email addresses, forwarders, even mailing lists that are named with your domain. In this section, we will show you easily how to set up a custom email address that can forward messages to the system you use… Read more »
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You now have set up at least two WordPress sites, and maybe after the creation of a WordPress based Calling Card site you can sense there is more to using this for a chronologically organized series of posts. Enter the world of SPLOTs, which might mean Smallest Possible Learning Online Tool (or something else), see… Read more »