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E-mail Box Setup |
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Once we are hosting your
domain and have e-mail addresses set up for you, you may need instructions on
how to set up your e-mail program. "Setting up e-mail using Outlook '98" Word Document PDF "Setting up e-mail using Outlook Express 5" Word Document PDF |
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EZ News and EZ Events from Web Transitions |
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info on your site updated is easier than ever with this great tool!
All you have to do is go to Web Transitions' web
site using one of the logo/links below, sign up for the service (1st month free!) and get a login and
password for an administration section. Once there, you can add,
edit or delete news/calendar items as often as you would like, without
having to call your web designer to do it for you. You can customize
the look to match your site, including background colors, header and
footer graphics. We'll be glad to do that part for you. Then a
link is generated for each feature (news and events), so you can link to
your info either in a frame or as a pop-up window from your site.
It's that simple!
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Transitions site to learn more. |
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Links to Handy Free Plugins - please read all instructions carefully |
| Adobe Acrobat - for viewing PDF files | |
| WinZip - for compressing and decompressing big files | |
| Macromedia Flash Player - for viewing Flash animations | |
| Real Player - for playing Real sound and video clips | |
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Windows
Media Player - for playing several sound or video clip formats |
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Getting Into Search Engines |
| Back when the public Internet was young, there were thousands instead of
billions of sites, and Yahoo and AltaVista were just about the only search
engines, getting into the engines' databases and coming up near the top of
search results was not such a problem. Things have changed. Today, you pay
some of the top search engines to include your site and pay even more to get
top placement. As of this date, the following directories or engines have free listings. Simply go to the site and look for "add your site" or "add your URL". Sometimes you have to look hard. According to one source, when you get into their databases you are also included, at some time in the unpredictable future, in the databases of the search engines listed after two of the main three: www.altavista.com www.google.com: America Online, Netscape, Yahoo, Kanoodle Open Directory (www.dmoz.org): AOL, Fast/All the Web, HotBot, Google, Lycos, Netscape However, just because you ask one of these three search engines to include you in their directory does not mean it will happen quickly, or even at all. This is an actual notice on Google in their site submission section: We do not add all submitted URLs to our index, and we cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if they will appear. All you can do is try…and try again. Getting to the top of results takes money. The latest thing in search engine placement is pay-per-click. This is a service offered by some search engines that allows you to pick keywords or phrases that you think people will use to find your site and pay to have your site come to the top in a search for that word or phrase. You pay a fee to the search engine every time someone clicks on your site's listing in that search engine. Google offers this service, but the most popular one now is www.overture.com. Not only do you get to the top in overture.com's search, but also msn.com, yahoo.com, altavista.com, lycos.com and others if you are one of the top three listings in overture. Visit the www.overture.com site to get the full story. |
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