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Is your website really a Deal?
Packages that 'Have it All' or 'Get Something Free' What does it really get you? We've all heard it before. "You get what you pay for." My personal experience is that this is more often than not, the truth in many ways. There seems to be a resurgence of offers in...
Email | Local & Server
What to do with your Email - Locally and from/on the Server Delete and purge your mail using your mail client (Note: Different versions of Outlook may have slightly different steps to follow to get to your settings.) By default, most mail clients are set up to only...
Privacy Policies…
There Are Changes - Are You Aware/Ready? Yup - you need a website Privacy/Terms of Use Policy on your site and you need it now. In May of this year, Europe introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (G.D.P.R.) which establishes some tighter privacy laws for...
No Site Maintenance? Ok, but please understand….
Responsive Sites and Updates... By now you've likely heard about and, hopefully, moved your website to be a responsive website... IF it wasn't created that way already that is. A responsive site is one whose elements adjust and re-arrange depending on the...
Woocommerce / Status Meanings
Woocommerce Status' and What They Mean New to using WooCommerce e-commerce on your Wordpress website? Then this is for you... When taking payments via WooCommerce (e.g. via PayPal), your “Orders” page will show the following status labels: Pending payment – Order...
Important – Updates Required
**PHP 7** Please be aware that most hosting companies (including ours) are beginning to update their hosting servers to PHP 7. This upgrade has been known to cause Wordpress websites that have not been fully updated to crash and not be accessible. We are offering...
Setting up a Gmail Email Account
With Your OWN Domain...When clients purchase their domain and hosting with The Image Stop ltd. / PenguinHosting.ca, each has the option of creating free email addresses through their hosting panel, which uses their domain name (for example,...
SSL – July 2018!
It's All About Security and Yes, it Will Cost a Bit. Cost ... time and/or $ When Google launches Chrome 68 in July it will warn users about HTTP sites - you should seriously think about SSL. If we've met you have likely heard us mention HTTPS and SSL certificates...
Looking at Improving your Website?
10 13 Tips to Help You be Seen as More Professional. As a website design company with a focus on marketing and brand perception, we often get asked to take a look at websites and see what can be done to help make them ‘more professional’. Over the years we have...
Responsive Sites?
Responsive Sites and Updates... By now you've likely heard about and, hopefully, moved your website to being a responsive website. A responsive site is one who's elements adjust and re-arrange depending on the size of the screen it is viewed on. Way back in the...
