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How To Change The DNS Servers Of A Domain Name

By Violeta | Published: November 27, 2011

Buying a domain name is not enough to have a website up and running. You need to host your site on a server. In order for this to work, you have to point the DNS servers of your domain name to the values indicated by your webhosting company. I’m giving you this example: I bought [...]

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How to Make a Website in 30 Lessons for Beginners

By Violeta | Published: November 1, 2011

Since I’ve started to do web design for a living, many of my friends asked me to teach them how to make a website. They thought it must have been very complicated, so they were a bit skeptical about their abilities to do it, considering their lack of coding skills. I’m happy to say that [...]

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How to Insert Images in eMail Messages

By Violeta | Published: March 17, 2011

I’m usually happy to attach image files I want to send by email. However, there are situations in which I prefer embedding the images in the message body. To give you only one example, here’s a message I got the other day in my inbox: That was the visible part of the message. For the [...]

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How to Host Your Own Domain Name on Blogger

By Violeta | Published: February 12, 2011

When it comes to starting a blog, many people think either Blogger or WordPress.com. If you go for Blogger, your blog will be like this example: http://mobiliercopii.blogspot.com/ – something dot blogspot dot com. Similarly, WordPress blogs have names like http://bestofcats.wordpress.com/ Both blogging platforms are free, so one can try the excitement of blogging without having [...]

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MS Excel LEFT, MID, RIGHT Functions: How To Slice Up Cell Contents

By Violeta | Published: December 8, 2010

Why would anybody want to automate slicing up cell contents in a spreadsheet? If you ever tried to copy a list from a web page or from a .txt file and paste it into Excel with the purpose of creating a database, then you know how frustrating it is to go through cells and edit [...]

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