KnowledgeBase
The Smith and Wise KnowledgeBase is a key resource for clients, and indeed, all those seeking more information that you normally don't get to know about!
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| FAQ: Email Marketing |
| FAQ: Hosting & Domains |
| FAQ: Email Setup |
| FAQ: SEO |
| FAQ: IT Security |
| FAQ: Web Colors |
| Recommended Software |
KnowledgeBase
The KnowledgeBase
The Smith and Wise KnowledgeBase is a free online resource which aims to help our clients, and the general public alike to make more informed decisions about IT, online activities and reconsider their behavour online to ensure their security and privacy. All information is provided as is, but with utmost good faith of our trained professionals.
FAQ: Emailing Marketing
Email marketing can be a great tool for your business, and we offer some great packages for email marketing here.
Continue reading for more tips and tricks of the trade:
FAQ: Setting Up Email Accounts
Setting up email accounts with Smith and Wise is relatively easy and can save money for your organisation.
First of all you will need to retreive access to Cpanel from Smith and Wise (we generally hold on to this for your own safety). Once you have these details you can login to your control panel.
Recommended Software
We always have people asking us what sort of software they should use on their personal computers - to keep them safe, to increase productivity and reduce the risk of losing data. Below are our suggestions, which we use ourselves - but the advice comes as is and use caution as certain types of software might not suit your usage or operating systems - feel free to consult us on 086 1780 743 or
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Hosting and Domains FAQs
Find out all your need to know about hosting and domain names from Smith and Wise.
Web Hosting: A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible via the World Wide Web.
Web Colours FAQ
Web colors are colors used in designing web pages, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors. Hexadecimal color codes begin with a hash (#).
Authors of web pages have a variety of options available for specifying colors for elements of web documents.
Search Engines - The Frequently Asked Questions
Every so often we get asked complicated questions about search engine submission conditions and how search engines decide what to index, and what to not. We decided to compile a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) article on some of the most common questions and practical answers. Here are the answers you may have been looking for:
Hosting - Avoid The First Timer Pitfalls
This week I was approached by a company that offered me hosting for an all in price of $10 a year. On the surface, their offer appeared to tick all the boxes. It offered the same bandwidth as my current supplier (which happens to be one of our two chosen client suppliers), twice the storage space and dedicated business hours support. Of course, nothing is ever that simple when it comes to a service. To help both our clients see the benefits of using our hosts, and also allow everything to avoid the potential pitfalls of hosting, that many hosting companies don't want you to know about, we have compiled our very own "Quick Start Guide" to the world of picking a hosting supplier.
Get Your IT Security Right
When you turn off the lights at night in your workplace, do you worry about your husiness being robbed? - If so, imagine it happening right before your eyes in broad daylight.
When you don't put proper steps in place to prevent data fraud, that is exactly what happens. What's worse is that it can happen in the middle of the day, without you knowing. Suddenly all your clients financial details, your secure files and even your employees confidential data, stored on your servers and computers could be in the public domain - and if you haven't tried your best to keep everything as secure as possible and things go wrong, you could be facing prosecution.