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Archive for October, 2019

Wordfence: WordPress security two-factor login

Tuesday, October 29th, 2019 by Helge
wordfence-medallionYou have probably already heard of the term two-factor authentication, maybe you already use it today even with other services? However, what you may not know is that two-factor authentication has more uses than the web, for example, it can be applied to secure the login for your WordPress page. According to estimations, more then 75.000.000 websites are running Wordpress. Unfortunately, its popularity has made the tool a target for people who want to use your website to send spam or spread malicious code. Therefore, any means of securing your website that does not affect its usability may be worth reviewing and may also be used.In this post, we particularly want ...

Easy as 1, 2, 3 … Servage application installer

Thursday, October 24th, 2019 by Helge
Screenshot_2019-10-25 Servage - Application Installer 1009145 Install applications with view clicks! The Servage application installer helps you to install and use complex apps with few clicks only. Our system will set up the files and the associated database. It is very easy to install tools like e.g. Wordpress, Joomla, Coppermine, openCart and many more. Here, you find a step by step instruction how to use the Servage application installer: https://servage.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000057163-Application-Installer If you should decide to install a new application on the host on which you already installed a tool, you can simply uninstall the existing tool tool and then ...

Responsive or adaptive design? What’s the best choice?

Friday, October 18th, 2019 by Helge
responsive-adaptible-designWhen building a website today there is almost no question about if it should be made responsive or not. It makes sense to adapt websites to the device they are being used on, and thereby improve the user’s experience significantly. However, as soon as you begin discussing how you want to adapt the site to different devices and how that responsiveness should actually be implemented, then you run into some general decisions you need to make. Now, responsive and adaptable are different things. It is important to understand the difference because it makes you able to consciously choose the method that is best for your given scenario. Note that responsive and adaptable are ...

Is your website standard compliant?

Saturday, October 12th, 2019 by Servage
wc3Everyone who ever tried creating a website probably knows that annoying experience of HTML pages not being displayed the same way in every browser. Especially  older versions of browsers are having a hard time showing your site the way you intended it to look. The reason for this is browsers interpreting HTML code and CSS styles differently. In many cases this has lead developers to create workarounds, including the use of invalid HTML or CSS, to trick the browsers into displaying the content in a similar way. These issues are frequently discussed on the Internet, and a common interpretation of HTML and CSS across all browsers is unfortunately not in sight. However, there is ...

How to add links in HTML

Monday, October 7th, 2019 by Servage
If you’re creating a page for the Web, chances are you’ll want it to point to other web pages and resources, whether on your own site or someone else’s. Linking, after all, is what the Web is all about. There is one element that makes linking possible: the anchor (a). <a>...</a> Anchor element (hypertext link) To make a selection of text a link, simply wrap it in opening and closing <a>...</a> tags and use the href attribute to provide the URL of the target page. The content of the anchor element becomes the hypertext link. Here is an example that creates a link to the Google website: <a href="http://www.google.com">Go to Google Home Page</a> Linking to Pages ...

New Servage Hosting account – Sitebuilder part 2

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019 by Helge
designIn the last blog, we gave you a general overview about our websitebuilder. In this blog, we like to explain some features of that tool more detailed. However, in case of questions or remarks, you are of course always welcome to contact our support via ticket or live chat. Start using the sitebuilder with installing it on one of your host. The guideline for that, can be found HERE. As soon as the installation is complete go to "Domains and Websites" -> "Sidebuilder" to find the "Admin" button. Push that button to enter the editor. In the design step you can adjust your template by selecting colors and fonts to ...