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New Control Panel Launched

Well, it’s finally here!

The new look, feel, and AJAX powered control panel for my content management system. Built using jQuery UI and a custom theme. Here are a few screen shots from www.yoursitecontrolpanel.com

Login Screen

Control Panel Login

Main Menu

Control Panel Welcome Screen

Navigation

Control Panel Interior

Page Options > Page Content

Control Panel Page Content

Create a Ticket

Create a Ticket

Facebook “Like” Updated on Product Details pages

For those e-commerce customers the Facebook “Like” button located on your product details page has been updated, but before it’ll work properly for your website you need to update your website’s Facebook App ID by going to Marketing > Facebook App ID. We’ve provided some simple, semi-detailed instructions for you to do this. It’s simple, but if you need help do not hesitate to contact me.

What is the update exactly? Well, before the Like button would post a link, text and an image to Facebook, but we’ve updated it so that we control what is posted to Facebook. The “main” product image will be used, the title of your product page, the URL to your product, and the short description from your product data. For more info please contact me.

Configuring Your Xmail Email Account With Your iPhone

Configuring Your Xmail Email Account With Your iPhone

  • Click Settings
  • Click Mail, Contacts, Calendars
  • Click Add Account
  • Click Other
  • Click Add Mail Account

For Name, enter your name. This is what people will see when they receive an email from you.

For Address enter your full email address, for example joe@domain.com

For Password enter your password

For Description, enter anything you want to designate this account, for example My Email or Company Name.

Click Next in the top right corner.

When the screen loads click the POP button so that it turns blue.

Incoming Mail Server (Required)

  • For Host Name, enter mail.yoursitecontrolpanel.com
  • For User Name, enter your full email address, for example joe@domain.com
  • For Password, enter your password.

Outgoing Mail Server (Required)

  • For Host Name, enter mail.yoursitecontrolpanel.com
  • For User Name, enter your full email address, for example joe@domain.com
  • For Password, enter your password.

Click Save in the top right corner.

Your phone will now go through the verification process.

When prompted “Cannot Connect Using SSL – Do you want to try setting up the account without SSL?” select Yes.

If you continue to receive the above prompt message, continue to select Yes and check for spelling errors in either the Host Name, User Name or Password fields for both Incoming and Outgoing settings.

This process may take a few minutes.

When the verification process has completed you should see a screen with your account. You should be set, but let’s verify everything took as intended to insure mail will flow properly.

Click your account.

Scroll down and click the SMTP button under Outgoing Mail Server

Click the button under Primary Server

Verify the following:

  • Server is ON
  • Host Name is mail.yoursitecontrolpanel.com
  • User Name is your full email address
  • Password is filled in
  • Use SSL is OFF
  • Authentication is Password
  • Server Port is 25 or 2525

Everything should be fine, but you may need to change the Server Port from 587 to 25 or 2525. Our mail server accepts requests through port 25 (industry standard) and port 2525 in the event your internet provider (whether over WIFI or 3G/4G) blocks port 25. Many ISP (Internet Service Providers) block sending mail over port 2525 for security and SPAM related reasons. Check with your ISP if you have any problems sending mail.

Lastly, since you are on a mobile device you may or may not want to delete the messages off the server when you delete them from your phone. To adjust this go to your account, scroll down to Advanced. From here you can adjust the Delete from server option.

  • Never - Use this option if you want to delete messages from your phone, but leave them on the server so you can pull them down from your computer’s email client (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc)
  • Seven days – Use this option if you want to let messages deleted from your phone to live on the server for 7 days. After 7 days, deleted messages on your phone will be deleted from the server.
  • When removed from Inbox – Use this if you want the message to be immediately deleted from the server when you delete it from your phone.

You should be all setup. Now, send yourself a test message and make sure it comes in!

Beautyfix.com

For Beautyfix.com I cut up the PSD files and handled all of the front end development including HTML/CSS/JS/jQuery

Disk Space Management

We have updated the control panel to show you how much disk space you are using, and how much you’re allotted. If you happen to go over your allotted disk space usage you will be sent an automated email, and you will see a message in red on your home page of the control panel.

You will not be able to upload images or documents through the Page Options > Upload Images or Page Options > Upload Documents sections of your control panel until your disk space has been increased, or you delete files to decrease the amount of disk space you are using.

Contact your server administrator for additional information.

Square.com Implementation

I am no longer processing credit cards using PayPal. I will process your credit card through my iPhone application provided by Square.com

I am hoping they will continue to develop their application to process credit cards in real time via web site, and also allow recurring payments which will make all of our lives much easier.

If you are looking to process credit cards without a true merchant account, this is a plausible solution for you. It’s extremely easy to use, and you can even include an image with the email receipt.

I highly recommend Square to anyone needing to process credit cards, and wants to save a few bucks. They take a competitive percentage, but there’s no merchant account fee, or gateway fee, or reporting fee, etc.

Generate XML Sitemap

We launched our XML based sitemap that is dynamically created each time you run the process. Once the XML Sitemap is created you can copy and paste the URL to the search engines. We’ve provided links to the Big 3: Yahoo, Google and Bing. Once you submit your sitemap to the search engines you never need to again, but you will want update your XML Sitemap whenever you add or remove a page or product.

Update to Webmail

Webmail now sends messages using your name not just your email address, such as Joe Velez <user@domain.com> You will need to update your name for each email account under Company Info > Email Accounts

Product Details Meta Tags

You can now specify the meta tags Keywords and Description for the product details view. This way, the actual product details page view can be indexed more efficiently. The page title also reflects the Product Name for greater SEO.

Web Hosting

I provide top of the line web hosting.

My servers reside in a carrier class data center facility to prevent outages from weather and power outages; complete with battery and generator backups. I also have automated nightly backups, as well as manual backups you can download directly to your computer. I have 24/7 remote and hands on access to the servers for critical and routine maintenance.

Server Software Includes:

  • Windows 2003 Server
  • Windows 2000 Server
  • Cold Fusion 8 Server
  • PHP 5 Server
  • MySQL 5 Server
  • BIND 9 DNS Server
  • Xmail Server
  • SmarterMail Server

You can host your HTML based web site on my server for $100 per year, or upgrade your site to utilize my custom site builder CMS application.

With my site builder CMS application software you will be in full control of your web site from any web browser. You can change your page content when it’s convenient for you, sell products online and process credit cards in real time over the internet. Quickly and easily setup contact forms, upload images and create eye pleasing galleries, and more.

FREE DEMO

For a free demo please go to www.yoursitecontrolpanel.com and login with the email address DEMO and the password DEMODEMO

HOW MUCH?

At just $99 Setup and $29 a month the cost is very affordable for any small business.

READY TO GET STARTED?

If you are ready to get started please call 714.814.0109 or proceed to www.ibuildyoursite.com and build your own web site. I will be able to register your domain and set it live within 24 hours.

I look forward to being your Internet partner.