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Quick Tip: How to Flush Cache at DNS Hosts for Faster DNS Record Changes

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Imagine you’ve moved your website to a new web host, a faster host with better customer support.

Which means you need to update your domain records to point to your new host.

You log into your domain registrar and update the records for the new host.

And wait.

You know it can take a while for the changes to propagate (the time it takes for your changes to take effect).

Read on to learn about DNS and steps you can take to help propagation to go faster. Continue reading Quick Tip: How to Flush Cache at DNS Hosts for Faster DNS Record Changes

Recovering and Restoring a Website: Planning Makes a Difference

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You know that awful thing you hope never happens when you’re making changes on your website?

It happened to me this morning.

I was working on my site, updating plugins, making changes in multiple places, checking the configuration for some obscure setting that took me down a rabbit hole.

When suddenly, when I review my site, it’s not displaying the way it should.

Some update I made caused a problem with search disappearing.

The blog page was empty, there were no posts.

Uh oh. Continue reading Recovering and Restoring a Website: Planning Makes a Difference

Solving Puzzles for Clients

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As a web designer, I work on a lot of existing websites for clients.

Websites originally created by another developer or designer who hasn’t worked on the site for six months up to three years ago.

Where my new client has

  • Little background on how the site was created
  • Limited information on how design/technical decisions were made
  • No credentials to access the site and/or log in to the web host

I ask a lot of questions to learn about the site and my new client’s business. Continue reading Solving Puzzles for Clients

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