Tag: website
Running a static website from Amazon S3 (or not)!
How to serve a static website using an Amazon S3 bucket, and upload to it using the Amazon Transfer Family, via Transmit software on a Mac.
Super cheap hosting deal
I host macintoshhowto.com with Bluehost. Here’s a post I wrote 10 years ago raving about how good they are. Here’s a post from a year back complaining about their billing. In conclusion they offer rock solid reliable hosting, but they are so big it’s not easy to get support or billing help from them. They…
Setting up WPRIG on a Macintosh Computer – some comments.
Today I had a go at setting up wprig. It is a development environment for making WordPress themes. I’m using it to try and update our church website. Here are some tips on how to set it up. This is very advanced – for WordPress Theme Coders.
A warning about notifications from websites
If you get a warning like this be very careful about clicking ‘Allow.’ I’ve noticed that lots of websites have been asking to send me notifications. What you may not realise is that these notifications do not come through your web browser. They come through the OSX built-in notifications that appear on the right of…
How to secure your WordPress website with https with SSL
10 steps to converting a WordPress http:// site to a secure http:// site. There’s a bit more involved than you might think!
How to test your website for different browsers
There are web applications that will allow you to preview what your website will look like on different browsers. You type in your website (e.g. macintoshhowto.com) and the site shows you what your website will look like in almost any browser you can think of. One such website is http://browsershots.org It’s free to use, but there is…
New Logo for Macintoshhowto
For the past 2 months I’ve been running a design contest at hatch wise.com for a new logo for this website. We had 170 entires! Here’s the winner.
How to get your website to appear in a google search
Web pages generally  do not automatically appear on search engine results pages. To make your site appear in google and other search engines you need to manually add your site. This is called submitting your site to a search engine. You don’t have to pay to do this – it’s free. Read on to find…
How to download flash video in OSX from any website
how to download a flash video with safari
How to back up your web server via the terminal
This will backup your entire remote server to your local Macintosh computer using rsync. It uses the command line so it’s not for beginners.