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01 September

Win FREE ADSL & Web Hosting for a lifetime!

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The party starts here: as part of our 10th birthday celebrations, we’re giving away some rather generous gifts to those that make us feel extra special by wishing us during this historic month.

A lifetime supply of ADSL and Web Hosting?

Nope, it’s not a typo. During the month of September, 10 lucky people will win a lifetime supply of ADSL and Web Hosting – plus we’ll throw in a FREE .co.za domain registration to get you started. Sound good?

The prize package includes:

  • • A 10GB ADSL Account. (for life)
  • • A Home Web Hosting Account with unlimited bandwidth. (for life)
  • • 1 x FREE .co.za domain registration.

How to enter

It’s really easy. Simply wish us a happy 10th birthday via Twitter (wish must be sent to @RSAWEB) or Facebook (wish must be posted on our FB wall).

From the list of Twitter wishes, we’ll select 5 winners randomly. From the list of Facebook wishes, we’ll let our community decide on 5 winners – the wishes that get the most ‘likes’ by our fans wins. Simple.
You may enter using both Twitter and Facebook, but only one entry per person is allowed on each platform.

Are you a winner?

Winners will be announced each week (for 4 weeks) via Facebook and Twitter each Tuesday, starting with Tuesday the 6th of September.

Additional mystery spot prizes will also be given to entrants showing extra creativity or love in their birthday wishes.

Be sure to stop by and wish us!

All entrants are subject our competition Ts & Cs.

14 June

Does more broadband equal a faster Internet experience?

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RSAWEB BroadbandWhilst we all heralded the arrival of ‘uncapped’ ADSL broadband in South Africa, and the pending 10Mbps ADSL speeds, that’s only half the story. Many don’t realise that past a certain point, the throughput speed of your internet connection will not actually result in your favourite website speeding up.

The majority of South African businesses and many residential customers are currently connected to a 4Mbps ADSL connection. The bandwidth figure is important, but by no means the only factor in determining the performance of your internet connection. Internet browsing, more commonly known as web traffic, is highly sensitive to Round Trip Times (RTT), or commonly known as ping times.

Consider the analogy of plumbing and the internet, with your ADSL connection being the proverbial pipe from the internet to your office or home. A larger pipe does not mean the water will flow faster, it will just allow more water to flow. The speed of the water flow does not increase, as is the case with the internet, which travels at the speed of light.

11 May

RSAWEB hosts 2oceansvibe – SA’s most popular blog!

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Guess what… We’ve been hosting South Africa’s most popular blog since May 2009! Seth Rotherham, local high profile blogger and lifestyle extraordinaire, is author of the award winning 2oceansvibe blog.

2oceansvibe raked in several awards at the 2009 SA Blog Awards, including SA’s best overall blog, best entertainment and most humorous – to name but a few. It also boasts rather impressive stats like 50,000 unique readers and 200,000 page views per month. Not too bad, considering the guy’s mantra is “work is a sideline, live the holiday.”

Seth decided to move over to us when his previous hosting providers conducted an upgrade to their hosting infrastructure. Unfortunately, their desired results didn’t quite materialise, and instead caused the 2oceansvibe site to go down. Our RSAWEB Geeks quickly worked their magic to fix the site. We took a snapshot of the site (all files and database), pulled a copy of the broken site, and stitched it all together with the backup to re-build the site on our hosting server. All this was done in a matter of 2 days, with minimal interruption and no downtime to the 2oceansvibe site.

Seth thought this was awesome, and then moved all the domains for his site over to us – “RSAWEB did a great job fixing up my site when I needed it most. Thanks for keeping the good vibes flowing!”

15 October

Easy ways to make your wordpress site look world class with themes

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Themes allow you to easily extend your WordPress based website or blog and make it look good. The advantages of using a pre-built theme are endless, some of which being time and cost. Choose a theme, upload it, tweak it a bit and you’re ready to roll.

Theme providers like Woothemes and OboxDesign allow you download pre-built themes at a superlow cost and they even allow you to reuse them. Doing design for a traditional website can cost you thousands, but using a pre-built theme will either cost you nothing or for the more sexier themes anything from $30-$100. The three themes below are examples of wordpress templates.

Key points to consider before choosing a theme:

  1. Layout – people are using fairly standard layouts to navigating the web, look at the templates, they work. Dont go for anything outlandish, your users wont wont be able to navigate your site
  2. Flash – websites built exclusively in flash are a disaster. Google and Bing will never find you. What’s the point of building a site if nobody can find it? That’s like having a postal address without a post code.
  3. Clutter – don’t load every wordpress widget you can find, make sure the menu structure works nicely, only use ones that are essential.

Installing your custom template:

  1. Get your theme (pay or not) and download it to your computer. It usually comes as a zip file (that’s fine)
  2. Login to your WordPress Admin
  3. Go to “Appearance” and “Add new themes” (red marker 1)

    4. themeupload

  4. Click the ‘Upload’ button (marker 2)
  5. Click ‘Browse’ and find your theme file (where you downloaded it to)
  6. Click ‘Install Now’
  7. If you are asked, please enter the FTP connection info and the hostname is your websites name eg. www.blognow.co.za (your FTP account details that came with your hosting account – For RSAWEB Customers –> you can get them from the webhosting section in the MyRSAWEB Control Panel)

    8. themeuploadconnectioninfo

  8. It may take 2-3 minutes to complete. Then click ‘Activate’

    9. themeuploadsuccess

  9. Your theme is now installed! Check it out by going to your website. The www.Blognow.co.za demo looks like this:

    10. newtheme

  10. Go and test out the new theme, add some content!

Look out for the next in the series of the “RSAWEB WordPress Tutorial Series 101” – you can follow us on Twitter or signup to receive emails when a new release is announced

14 October

How to setup your first website using wordpress

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Creating your first website or blog using WordPress can be quite a daunting task. Most people have in the past chosen to fully outsource their website and most probably still need to. Websites have evolved and many more people are launching their own personal and business blogs. WordPress is one of the most widely used blogging tools that can now easily be installed on your web hosting using the WordPress auto-installer we have developed in our MyRSAWeb control panel.

WordPress while primarily designed as blogging software can be used to build far more than a standard blog. We often see our clients hosting incredibly elaborate websites that have been built on WordPress. The Content Management System at the core of the software allows you to easily update website content and embed rich media like videos and photo’s easily via a web interface.

You can install wordpress manually or  you can signup for a business web hosting package with RSAWEB and install WordPress automatically from the MyRSAWEB control panel. This makes creating your site ultra simple without having to FTP or manually edit settings in random files. For the inexperienced user, we recommend this option to get you started.

How to install WordPress with RSAWEB:

  1. Order a Linux Business Hosting package
  2. Wait for the confirmation email from RSAWEB
  3. Login to the www.myrsaweb.co.za control panel
  4. Go to “Webhosting Services” and click on your new website
  5. Click ‘WordPress’, fill in the details and click ‘Install’
  6. Your site should be up and running! Go and check it out http://www.yoursitename.co.za – dont worry it probably wont look like much until you  enter in some content.

    7. Website Demo Homepage

  7. Now go to http://www.yoursitename.co.za/wp-admin/ and login. You will see the control panel (like below)

    8. Wordpress Admin Page

  8. Create some new ‘Posts’ and ‘Pages’ and see what it looks like on your site.
  9. Thats it! You now have a wordpress website up and running!

You will probably not be happy with the look of the site as its the basic WordPress default template. WordPress can be themed and skinned to your hearts content to get your website to look the way you want it. The next article in this series will tackle the design aspects of WordPress and help you make your website look amazing without the need for advanced design skills!

Manual WordPress Install
Installing WordPress manually can be a challenge and should only be attempted by those with a understanding of basic web development. If you want to do attempt the manual install yourself  this article will help.

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