You’ve just come up with the best idea ever for a business, and the perfect domain name to boot. When you go to register that domain for your website, you realize it’s already taken. What do you do? In lieu of cueing those tiny violins, it’s time to re-strategize your domain naming game. The Importance … Continue reading Your Ideal Domain Name Is Taken—Now What?
You spend time crafting the perfect blog posts. You hire top-notch graphic designers to create your website and logo. You put your best work out there in ebooks or photography or original artwork. And then it happens: someone has plagiarized your words, republished your content as their own, or used your artwork and designs on … Continue reading Protecting Your Intellectual Property and Brand
What good is a bunch of words on a web page without pictures draw people in? Compelling imagery is a must for your web presence. But there are limitations to what you can legally use on your site. Let’s take a look at the basics of intellectual property rights, copyright law, and Creative Commons so … Continue reading How to Avoid Copyright Violations on Your Website
If you or your company does business on the Internet, you already know about social media. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the rest have become such a ubiquitous part of our online communication that even if you don’t use them, you likely know what they are and how they work. What you may not know is … Continue reading Social Media Management in 4 Easy Steps
Home construction is booming around much of the world and everyone in the business—including architects, builders, and contractors—is busy. If you are in the home building trade, here are seven new domain name choices you can select for your website. These domains work just like .com and other popular top level domain names, but your … Continue reading 7 Domain Names for the Building and Construction Trade
To all our .uk domain customers out there, we know it’s been a bit of a bumpy road recently. Not being able to register or transfer some of your ccTLD domains for over a month was undoubtedly frustrating and, in our eyes, simply unacceptable. After parting ways with Enom (our previous upstream provider), we’re more … Continue reading Namecheap Moves .UK domains to a New Platform
If more than one person that helps with your WordPress site, user roles are very important. In this post, let’s tale a look at the five differentWordPress user roles, the different levels of permission you can assign, and consider when you might choose these different roles. Purpose of User Roles User roles are designed to … Continue reading Understanding the 5 WordPress User Roles
In the past, building your own website from scratch could seem daunting, tiresome, and downright expensive. No wonder so many businesses would choose to forgo a website in favor of a Facebook page or some other social media presence. Thankfully nowadays, if you’re not a coder, it’s not a problem. With Namecheap, we believe building … Continue reading Making the Case for Namecheap’s Website Builder
One of the appealing things about working for yourself is being able to work in your pajamas from home. But many people find that this is not the panacea they hoped: constant distractions, a lack of separation between work and play, and loneliness are common. Thankfully, there’s an affordable option for people that want a … Continue reading Coworking: When Working from Home Doesn’t Work
Writing a blog on WordPress is a wonderful way to share your opinions, observations, and news. It’s made even more powerful because you can engage with your audience through comments. But comments can also be a frustration for blog owners, especially when “trolls” arrive. Here are some ways you can encourage people to comment and … Continue reading Best Practices for Managing WordPress Comments
