• Get In Touch

News & Updates

The latest news, updates and tutorials from HostPresto!

The Importance of Link Popularity

April 6, 2013

The quality and number of incoming links to your Website can make a huge difference to your search engine rankings – and subsequently to the amount of traffic you are likely to get from search engine results. Here are a few suggestions as to how to improve your link popularity. Link Directories – Submitting your […]

Read More

What is a Ping Test?

April 3, 2013

The ping test is essentially a diagnostic tool allowing users to verify the existence of an IP address and/ or establish whether an IP address can accept requests. It also assists in tracing communication between router, computer and/ or other devices that are connected to a network, as well as testing connectivity and measuring response […]

Read More

Sending large Files via Free Services

March 31, 2013

E-mail services allow users to send single/ multiple files of comparatively small sizes only. This can make it extremely difficult to send large files, or a collection of many files. Users essentially need to break down large individual files into several smaller ones, and send these – or other collections of multiple files – via […]

Read More

Logo Design and Vector Graphics

March 28, 2013

Branding a business invariably involves designing a suitable logo. Naturally, this entails a lot of careful consideration, research and inspiration, because once your logo is in place, it will be the one thing potential clients will recognise you by. In other words, it needs to be striking – without being gaudy – memorable and easy […]

Read More

The Managed Hosting Solution

March 25, 2013

Many companies are struggling along on shared hosting plans – never quite having enough space to promote all of their products appropriately, having slow loading times because there are so many other users on the server, and so on – because they do not have the technical know-how (or the financial resources to employ someone […]

Read More

Create a Widgetized Area In A WordPress Theme

March 14, 2013

Ever wondered how you can make a certain area of your <span id=”urn:local-text-annotation-2a1hv9a88m3u4vmyfl80abusyzh40nqa” class=”textannotation wl-no-link disambiguated wl-thing” itemid=”http://data.wordlift.io/wl0226/entity/theme_computing”>theme</span> <span id=”urn:local-text-annotation-rovwmyrjfjfw1n1bxyaww8doepmn0xqh” class=”textannotation wl-no-link disambiguated wl-thing” itemid=”http://data.wordlift.io/wl0226/entity/computer_file”>files</span> in <span id=”urn:local-text-annotation-wjuflqfuwoja4e7019hc98o3kr73nue2″ class=”textannotation wl-no-link disambiguated wl-thing” itemid=”http://data.wordlift.io/wl0226/entity/wordpress_2″>WordPress</span> show a widget? Follow our quick tutorial on how to make a widgetized area. For this Tutorial i’m going to add a […]

Read More

Turn off Comment Notifications in WordPress

February 25, 2013

Do you have a high traffic blog and don’t want the masses of emails you recieve when users comment on your blog? Do you prefer to check your comments moderation queue daily, instead of getting an email every time a comment is added to the queue? Follow our simple steps below to disable these emails […]

Read More

What is a DDOS Attack?

February 21, 2013

DDOS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attacks are a sub category of malicious computer network interferences called DOS (Denial-of-Service) attacks. As the name suggests, Denial-of-Service attacks basically mean interference, slowing down or in some cases completely breaking a host or server’s access to the internet. DDOS attacks are a special category of them, where multiple computers, remotely controlled […]

Read More

What Is CSS’s Role In Web Design?

February 21, 2013

CSS or Cascading Style Sheets plays an important role in web design. Style sheet is a reference to the document itself but it is the term ‘cascading’ that gives CSS its unique quality. When changes are made in one style sheet, CSS enables these changes across all the style sheets, much like the cascading or […]

Read More

Different blogging software options

February 17, 2013

Blogging today has become one of the best ways to get your ideas out there. People can blog about anything under the sun and others interested in the same, will read it. Almost everyone has heard of blogging by now and for those who haven’t; it’s a web log where you pen down your thoughts. […]

Read More

What Is An RSS Feed?

February 14, 2013

If you use the internet rather frequently then an RSS feed is something you should probably know about. An RSS feed is essentially a Rich Site Summary which means that when you want to check out a lot of content specially on different websites you can save time because you need not visit each website […]

Read More

The Best WordPress eCommerce Plugins

February 10, 2013

So you’ve heard the hype of how good WordPress is, but you need to extend it to sell products online. A quick search of the WordPress plugins directory shows over 441 plugins to help you sell online but which ones are the best? Read on for our verdict of the best WordPress eCommerce plugin. Jigoshop Jigoshop is an eCommerce plugin for […]

Read More

How To Use Page Templates In WordPress

February 10, 2013

Your <span id=”urn:enhancement-83aceeac-2cad-fbf6-c605-c4dc9b6a74df” class=”textannotation disambiguated wl-thing wl-no-link” itemid=”http://data.wordlift.io/wl0226/entity/wordpress_2″>WordPress</span> Theme may come with a choice of page <span id=”urn:enhancement-3f100240-7878-c85e-4de3-db7a1a8133b4″ class=”textannotation disambiguated wl-thing wl-no-link” itemid=”http://data.wordlift.io/wl0226/entity/web_template_system”>templates</span> such as a portfolio page, or even a contact form, but how do you use these? This tutorial will show you how. Login to your WordPress Admin Hover over pages and click […]

Read More

Add Facebook Like and Twitter count to WordPress

February 10, 2013

Want to increase your sites viability on social networks? then you need to have a Facebook like, and tweet counters on your WordPress Hosting! Follow our simple guide and have them placed in seconds! Login to your WordPress Admin In the left hand menu hover over Plugins, then click add new There are many social plugins to achieve this, but […]

Read More

How To Change Your WordPress Homepage

February 10, 2013

A lot of the time were asked how to change the homepage of a WordPress blog to a set page, so that it doesn’t show blog posts as standard. This makes WordPress more of a content management system than just a blog, so its an important step you need to learn. Login to WordPress, make you you […]

Read More

How Can Google Maps Improve A Company’s Website?

February 7, 2013

You know Google maps have been around when you’ve lost your way, or if you just needed to get somewhere. Here is something new; Google maps can make your company’s life better by using it on your website. You know how people go online and check websites. When they do, it usually makes a great […]

Read More

What makes Solid State Drives superior to normal hard disks?

February 4, 2013

If you’ve heard all the hype about Solid State Drives and are wondering what they are and why the market has gone berserk over them, it is because the market has a legitimate reason to, and here’s why. SSDs can essentially be considered a memory stick, like maybe a very large storage USB, but they […]

Read More

What Is The Data Protection Act?

February 4, 2013

The Data Protection Act was initiated in 1998 by the government of U.K. in order to make the U.K law compatible with the EU Data Protection Directive of 1995. A simple summary of the data protection act would state that it was incorporated by nation states in order to protect personal data of individuals in […]

Read More

Differences Between PHP And ASP

February 4, 2013

When one talks of web pages and in particular dynamically generated web pages, the terms ASP and PHP are relevant. ASP stands for Active Server Pages and it is the first server side script engine designed by Microsoft for dynamic web pages. PHP, which is also a server side scripting language, was designed by Rasmus […]

Read More

Ways To Keep Your Credit Card Details Safe Online

February 4, 2013

If you’re apprehensive about sharing your credit card information online, you most definitely cannot be blamed for it. It’s rather obvious that when it isn’t handled carefully, credit card information can be misused by various parties to cause decent damage to your bank account. A good way to keep your credit card information safe online […]

Read More