Adding new email accounts and email aliases to your domain


If you are hosting your e-mail with us you can easily setup new email accounts or aliases.

Generally speaking you should set up one email account per real person, and then use aliases for generic terms for example sales@mydomain.com.  An alias is an email address that receives emails and redirects it to a full email account.

When your domain was set up on llocally you should have received an email containing your master account name and password.

Follow the instructions..

Using the Canvas Slider


The main llocally theme (canvas) has an in built slider that can be turned on or off for the front page only.

The switch for enabling the slider can be found in the easy edit customisation options for the theme.

The radio button ‘slider’ enables the slider, ‘static’ creates a single item slider useful to create a large image banner when sliding images are not appropriate, and ‘remove slider’ of course removes it.

Tick box options also displays the slider..

How to get a MapQuest API AppKey for Get Directions


The llocally map plugin Get Directions require a MapQuest API AppKey.

There is no cost relating to getting the API AppKey, process is just a matter of signing in to MapQuest and requesting a key.

To show you how to do this we have created a short video demonstrating how simple it is the get a MapQuest API AppKey, click on the image below to watch the video.

The responsive map plugin is available here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/get-directions/

This WordPress MapQuest Get..

Selling Your Web Design Company or Website Portfolio


Are you a freelance website designer or a small web design agency that wants to move in another direction?  Perhaps  you now have demanding job or your business has changed direction? Maybe you found that being a web designer just wasn’t right for you now, financially or personally? Maybe you are retiring?

Rather than leave your clients in the lurch, we would be very interested in taking them on and providing them ongoing support and hosting.  Rather than letting your..

Adding content & text to your website – getting started


Deciding what text should go on your new website can be a frustrating & time consuming task.

If you find sometimes you can’t quite put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard, & deciding what text needs to be on your website gives you cold sweats & sleepless nights, read on!

We’ve put together some pointers which help kick-start the process of creating good quality relevant content for your website.

Firstly, so you get the tone of your website correct,..

Added features for the Simple Gallery


The Simple Gallery, implemented in llocally, allows an easy way to add a group of pictures to your website, including ability to re-order and delete unwanted images.

We have just released three improvements to this feature

Ability to set the size of the gallery thumbnail pictures the size for your site.  This is really useful if your pictures are mainly portrait or mainly landscape. Giving you the choice of placing the galley at the top of your page or at the bottom..

Web page design – creating columns in WordPress


Using the standard WordPress visual editor can be a little tricky to design a web page that requires columns. It can be achieved using HTML, but that isn’t that helpful if you don’t have a reasonable understanding of HTML and just want to get your layout sorted. So we have created a set of shortcodes to help with this layout issue.

Shortcodes are special instructions enclosed in square brackets e.g. [shortcode]  and normally, when a shortcode effects an area..