Morris Project Blog http://www.morrisproject.co.uk/blog Website Design, Website Development and Website Hosting News and Tutorials Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:37:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Setting up your Emails to your Iphone http://www.morrisproject.co.uk/blog/2011/07/setting-up-your-emails-to-your-iphone/ http://www.morrisproject.co.uk/blog/2011/07/setting-up-your-emails-to-your-iphone/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:35:45 +0000 Stuart Morris http://www.morrisproject.co.uk/blog/?p=104 Hi everyone!

We have a lot of requests on how to setup your emails to your iphone, so thought we would write a walkthrough blog post about it.

Once you have your hosting setup with Morris Project, you can use your emailing straight away.

Firstly login to your Control Panel - Morris Project Hosting Control Panel

Go to ‘Mailboxes’

To add a new mailbox, click in the email address field, type what you would like and click Create.

Make note of the Email Address and the Password you setup. Return to the Home of the Control Panel.

 

On your Iphone, go to Settings.

Select Mail, Contacts, Calendars

Click Add Account…

Select Other

Add Account

Select from Mail, Add Account

Fill in the form with the information regarding the account, click Next.

New Account

Once complete you will see a new screen for New Account, change the top section to POP.

On this page you will need to enter the information for both Incoming Mail Server and Outgoing Mail Server.

Mail Server

Host Name: This should be ‘mail.yourdomainname.com’. For example, ours would be mail.morrisproject.co.uk.

User Name: This will be the email address for example, test@morrisproject.co.uk

Password: This will be the password for the email account you setup in the Hosting Control Panel

Ensure you repeat the above information in the Outgoing Mail Server fields. Once complete click Save and you are finished.

Thanks

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Google recently announced that Page Speed will come into their algorithms for search results ranking, which brings worried looks all round.

Besides decent markup for code, well thought web page layouts, linking, alt tags and everything else which goes into creating a great performing website. We now have to think about page load speed as well, thanks Google.

But fear not, Google have released a powerful extension to the Firebug Add on for Firefox to monitor the Page Speed for web pages. If your looking for either click on these links… Firebug | Page Speed


Ok, now your setup we have some work to do on analyzing the page load and problems. Firstly open the page in question, and run the page speed analysis. This will present you with a score for your page and shows problems. Personally I am happy with 90+ (out of 100) for load speeds per page.


Here are a list of some common issues I run into, and how to resolve.

Resolution: This problem often occurs when multiple calls are made to the same domain for information. For example, your code looks for the CSS file and multiple image files from the same domain.
The easiest way to resolve this in my view, is to create some sub-domains which point to your image directories. Such as images.domainname.com, then use your CSS file to put to these links instead. This then means the calls for information is cut down and spread out dramatically.


Resolution: Google is very helpful here. If you have multiple images which can be optimized, the Page Speed Extension will show you the optimized version and option to save. Review the image, save it in place, upload again and Google becomes happier.


Resolution: This is a popular issue for older websites. The problem is that most web pages use resources that change frequently, such as CSS, images and JavaScript. These files take time to download across the network, which will increase the page load time. To fix this and proxy caching I would advise to add the following the HTML head.
<meta http-equiv=”cache-control” content=”public” />
To resolve the image, css and JS cache this can be completed via your htaccess file.
<FilesMatch “\.(ico|flv|jpe?g|png|gif|js|css|swf)$”>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault “access plus 1 month”
</FilesMatch>
Which in turn should change your score to 100/100 unless there is any other files which may need including.


Resolution: Compression is used to make the files that are being accessed smaller when the browser downloads them. This means they can be downloaded quicker, and in turn page load speed faster. Adding the following to your htaccess file, enables gzip on specific browser and compresses the text based files for download by browser.
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ \
no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \
\.(?:exe|t?gz|zip|bz2|sit|rar)$ \
no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.pdf$ no-gzip dont-vary
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/x-js
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/ecmascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/ecmascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/vbscript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/fluffscript

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.formula-template


Resolution: Another great fix by Google, they supply the minified CSS files for download. This removes whitespace from the CSS file causing faster download for the files. Again download, review and upload the new files. In future, its best practice to do this on design :-)


Resolution: This is caused by looking up external content from elsewhere, such as links to JS files or JQuery. This can easily be fixed by copying the files to the local DNS (your domain name) and reading the files from here.


Resolution: Having multiple CSS files means the browser has to download each in use to find the information for the page. Including all the CSS files into one file can often help on speed. If you have CSS information which is only used on limited pages, I like to leave this not included and link to the CSS file as normal for the pages which it is required. On all other CSS files try to combine this as much as possible and a good score will follow.




Other Aspects: Most other aspects of good Page Speed come with good markup. Keeping the CSS referrals in the head, specification image dimensions, serve scaled images, serve resources from a consistent URL, specify a character set early, combine external JavaScript files, and so much more all comes with great code markup. Having problems? Let us know, or let us do the hard work for you. Website Design | Website Design Quote Form


Let us know your thoughts. Hope this helps.
]]> http://www.morrisproject.co.uk/blog/2010/04/seo-page-speed-analysis/feed/ 2 Website Hosting and Features from Morris Project http://www.morrisproject.co.uk/blog/2010/03/website-hosting-and-features-from-morris-project/ http://www.morrisproject.co.uk/blog/2010/03/website-hosting-and-features-from-morris-project/#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:33:25 +0000 Stuart Morris http://www.morrisproject.co.uk/blog/?p=64 Morris Project now offer cheaper, more powerful, feature packed website hosting packages. As well as loads of features for your website and hosting control panel, Morris Project also have a powerful Client Area. Our Client Area now has lots of features for our clients. Find out about your account, subscriptions, renew services, order domains hosting and add-ons plus so much more.

Morris Project offers a range of Hosting Packages for all your website needs. Check out our packages below:

We also have a great Domain Name search function. If you already have a domain name and would like to transfer to Morris Project, you can complete this here, or purchase low cost domain names.

Domain Name Search Function

Morris Project specialise in low cost domain names and website hosting. If you are looking to find out more information, get in touch or view our information on our new Website.

Following recent suggestions from our existing clients. Morris Project has released our Hosting Control Panel now for the iPhone. Simple access your hosting control panel from your IPhone to view the site.

Not sure, who to chose for your hosting. Here is a list of features to help you decide:

  • Lots of MB space to store your website
  • Lots of Bandwidth for your large amount of users to your website
  • Mail Boxes for POP3/IMAP email accounts
  • Internet based Web-mail, accessed across the World
  • Additional sub domains
  • Additional FTP accounts
  • Free & Fast Support
  • Powerful control panel
  • Secure Server access
  • A wide range of CGI/Perl scripts to run for your website. Including WordPress, Drupal, ECommerce and much more…

Morris Project also provide a Powerful Client Area. Here you can order domains, order web hosting, order add-ons, access the support database, manage your account, contact support and Renew services.

Viewing your account you can see outstanding invoices, services, subscriptions, change your password, update your contact details for domain names and much more.

Morris Project also show our clients a System Status page should you have any worries. Get in touch now to find out more on our Cheap Hosting and Domain Names.

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With our current workload it has been hard to fit our new site into the schedule but we have finally managed it. With the new Morris Project website we have some great added extras:

  • Free Website Design QuoteMorris Project Blog
  • The new Morris Project Blog
  • Free Application Design Quote
  • Website Design Portfolio
  • New Cheaper more powerful Website Design Packages
  • Website Security and SEO serivces now available
  • Great New Website Hosting Packages
  • All new website hosting features
  • Domain Name registration, suggestions and search form
  • More information about Morris Project

We have listened, most of the features requested by our clients have now been implemented into our new website. We hope you like it, and most of all it provides a useful and clean enviroment.

If you would like to suggest any item to Morris Project, please use our suggestions and feedack form. All suggestions and feedback is welcome and reviewed by our management team and as you will know we often add new features.

To find out more information on our new Website Hosting packages, control panel, webmail and further information view our new “Website Hosting and Features from Morris Project” Blog Post.

If you would like any information on Morris Project search the site within the top Search box. If you would like to get in touch, you can use any of the methods on the top right of the page or use our Contact Page.

We hope you enjoy the new site, let us know your thoughts.

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