Posts by Earth Girl Hosting
5 Reasons You Should Hire a Freelancer for Your Ecommerce Business
The workforce is changing, and so are hiring trends. You may find it increasingly difficult to manage business operations with your existing team. However, you may not want to go through the hassle of finding a permanent employee as that can be quite taxing, especially considering that you’re probably busy handling the day-to-day operation of…
Read More4 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Writing Product Descriptions
Operating in the digital sphere isn’t easy, especially with the increasing competition and reducing customer attention span. Did you know that the average attention span of humans is around 8 seconds? How do you capture a customer’s attention within these 8 seconds? Through captivating and well-written product descriptions. Sounds simple right? But it’s not as…
Read More10 Ecommerce Web Design Tips for 2021
Don’t think of your e-commerce website simply as a collection of WebPages that display your brands or third-party brands. Instead, think of it as a store where users can physically come in and take a look at your collection. If you look at renowned brands like Nike, Adidas, and Apple, all of their stores have…
Read More5 ways to Implement Website Security
With cybercrime occurring more frequently, many website owners are at risk of becoming a target. It’s nothing personal against you, but rather just the way cybercriminals try to exploit weaknesses in a website’s security. They don’t go around looking for websites to attack as this process would be time-consuming and arduous to implement. Instead, they…
Read MoreUsing Gmail to Handle EarthGirl Email
Using Gmail to manage your mail is a great way to save space on your server, and it’s really handy, too! Here’s how: From your Gmail account, click the Settings icon on the top-right of your screen, then select See All Settings. Click Accounts and Import from the top menu. Incoming Email In the section marked Check mail from…
Read MoreWhat is gZip Compression?
What is gZip Compression? gZip is a compression utility that creates files with lossless data compression. This means that when expanded (i.e. decompressed) the data will look exactly like it did before compression. Nothing is lost in the processes. gZip files usually end in the suffix “gz” – you may notice this on your website’s…
Read MoreCreating a Subdomain in cPanel
Subdomains are prefixes that you add to your main domain to create a new destination on your hosting account. For example, if your domain name is “example.com” then a possible subdomain could be “buy.example.com”. Adding a subdomain will give you the option to add separate content to your site while staying on your domain. Here’s…
Read MoreStop Spam in my cPanel Email
We’ve Got You!Earth Girl Hosting enables this feature by default. If you’re with us, you’re covered! Putting an end to unwanted email in your cPanel email account is a click away with Apache Spam Assassin. Here’s how: First, log into your cPanel account (https://mysite.com/cpanel) Once there, you can search for “Spam Filters” using the search…
Read MoreResizing Images in cPanel? Yes, You Sure Can!
Most people don’t know this one exists. It’s really very easy and quite handy. Do you have some giant images on your hosting account that you need to make not-so-giant? Let me show you how: First, log into your cPanel (https://yoursite.com/cpanel) Use the search bar to find the Images link, then click to open it.…
Read MoreHow Do I Know If My Website Has A Virus?
It can really happen to any of us. Getting a virus on your website is not only frustrating, but it can be very costly. Â Prevention is always the best course of action, but sometimes it just gets past you. Prevention starts with the basics: Choose a unique password & change it now and then Be…
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