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Automatically update the copyright year with .NET/ASP/JS/PHP

If your website is still showing “© 2011″ and it should be “© 2012″ then take the opportunity to update once and have it correct forever using one of the code snippets below: Show current year in .NET <%=”&copy;” & … Continue reading

WordPress 3.3 Hosting Support

It’s only a few hours/days since WordPress 3.3 ‘sonny’ was released and after many customer and staff blog upgrades via the internal automatic/FTP updater we have seen no upgrade related problems at all. Stay tuned to our WordPress feed for … Continue reading

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Top 10 Joomla Components

1. sh404SEF sh404SEF rewrites Joomla URLs to a user and search engine friendly format (SEF URL or URL rewriting): mysite.com/index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=69&id=34… becomes mysite.com/en/sh404SEF-and-url-rewriting/list-of-available-plugins.html). It is also has a security component, meta tags manager for every page, Joomfish compatible, caching system for … Continue reading

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Top 10 Magento Plugins / Modules

1. MagentoConnect Manager A indispensable tool for managing your Magento modules and extensions. One click installs available for all Magento modules and plugins at MagentoCommerce.com. 2. Request For Quote This extension brings your customers and you a better way to … Continue reading

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Top 15 Firefox Addons for Web Designers & Developers

Firefox has a wealth of add-ons to aid web design and development. We’ve picked out our top 15 to share with you! A little word about Firefox add-on security. Always check where your actually installing the add-ons from and where … Continue reading

Installing Dot Net Nuke

Dot Net Nuke is a Content Management System using the .NET framework and is therefore only available only available on Windows hosting plans and servers. 1. Turn on your MSSQL database if it already is not “on”. To check the … Continue reading

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How to install Magento

Magento is an open source based ecommerce web application. The Magento Community Edition is the only free version of Magento available. All other versions of Magento are not free. Here is further information between the Enterprise and Community versions. Magento … Continue reading

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How to install WordPress

WordPress is a very popular free publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL for creating your website or blog. There are thousands of WordPress themes and plugins available to very easily allow you to customise it to suit your exact … Continue reading

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PHP allow_url_fopen now allowed

For the past few years we have as policy prevented the use of PHP allow_url_fopen on our shared and reseller web servers in order to mitigate against the most common code exploits and attack vectors seen within customers PHP code. … Continue reading

WordPress 3.2 Hosting Support

It’s only a few days since WordPress 3.2 was released and after hundreds of customer and staff upgrades via the internal automatic/ftp updater we have seen no upgrade related problems at all. The following shared and reseller servers have been … Continue reading

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Software security updates

Aside from having a secure initial installation with robust passwords, correct file permissions and running under FastCGI the single best method for ensuring long term security of your site, whatever the software, would be keeping up to date with the … Continue reading

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Top 10 WordPress Plugins

One of the best things about WordPress is the wealth of plugins available to really let your WordPress website get the most from your Pipe Ten hosting. We have highlighted some of the best ones below to give you the … Continue reading

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FTP publishing in Visual Studio 2010

A quick FAQ on how to publish your website or web application using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 development software.

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Tutorial: Webshell Password Protect Wizard

A quick FAQ on how to password protect a directory in your web space using the control panels password protect wizard built into WebShell/FileManager.

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WordPress 3.0 now available

The worlds favourite blogging software WordPress has released its latest and greatest version 3.0. The Pipe Ten team has been testing the upgrade process for the past couple of week(s) which includes this blog (www.pipeten.info). We can confirm all WordPress … Continue reading

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Tutorial: FTP to your hosting account using Adobe Dreamweaver

A quick FAQ on how to connect to your Pipe Ten shared hosting account and upload files using the web development application Dreamweaver.

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Tutorial: Umbraco Installation

Umbraco is one of the most popular free / open source content management systems for Windows hosting. Written in .NET Umbraco is simple, extensible, powerful and runs beautifully on Pipe Ten shared, reseller and server hosting packages. Umbraco hosting. In … Continue reading

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