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August 18, 2016 Michael Kennon No comments exist

WordPress has released an update to their core programming for this platform. All sites in the Website Hosting Cooperative have been updated to this new version. Watch the video for the key features of this new version of WordPress. Also see WordPress 4.6 “Pepper” for more details. http://www.video.parnassuscreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WordPress-4-6-About.mp4 Source: Michael’s WP Blog

August 7, 2016 Michael Kennon No comments exist

As of Sunday, August 7, 2016, I have been notified of a price increase for many popular Domain Name Registrations. This is a fee charged by our hosting service (DreamHost.com). We do not ‘mark-up’ these prices charged to you and money collected is paid to DreamHost.com. For a current list of prices you can visit Parnassus…

July 2, 2016 Michael Kennon

While there are various Joomla Templates included in your Joomla! CMS platform when installed on your site you may what to explore alternative templates. You can do a Google search with the term ‘joomla templates’ to see what else is out there. Most are not free unless included with a purchased hosting package from a…

June 25, 2016 Michael Kennon No comments exist

I have been working with computers since the late 1970’s and one of the first lessons I was taught is that you always make a backup copy of your work! Frequently! In those early days all we had to use were the old 5-¼ inch floppy disks and I was told to use two separate…

April 24, 2016 Michael Kennon

Why backup your website? How can you do this? How often should you create a new backup copy? These are questions we get from many of our clients and this article will hopefully answer those questions. Why backup your website? Because you never know when something might happen to cause a failure of the site’s…

March 12, 2016 Michael Kennon

Not everyone has access to the internet in the same capacity. For example, I live in a rural area that does have DSL broadband internet service however the bandwidth is severely limited due to the phone company’s infrastructure in my area and they have no plans to upgrade their equipment any time soon. The one…

January 20, 2016 Michael Kennon

for Immediate Release: Expanded Library for WordPress Tutorial Videos For all of our Parnassus Creative Clients we have expanded the library of WordPress Tutorial Videos available for you to view on our Client Help site. The original sources of these videos have made them available on-line at their various websites (some for only a limited…

December 1, 2015 Michael Kennon

Sliders on a website are very common these days. A Slider is a series of images in a ‘Slide Show’ format usually with clickable links in the images. Can also include animations and videos in the slides. In the past to have a features like these you had to use some expensive software to create…

September 27, 2015 Michael Kennon

If you are a candidate seeking an elected office or an organization supporting / opposing an issue on the ballot then now is the time to get your website setup and on-line. Having your own website is a great way to get your message out for all to see. It is a cost effective method…

September 23, 2015 Michael Kennon

Since getting back from my trip at the end of August, I’ve been developing several new WordPress platform websites. One of these is for the Wichita Professional Communicators. This one was more of a site migration job with the organization wanting a new hosting service along with a few backend updates and upgrades. This task is now…