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How to Install Simple Machines Forums (SMF) on your Host Color Account

In the last post on Mary’s Column, we talked a bit about the Simple Machines Forum and it’s potential use in creating a user community or forum. We talked about features, advantages, requirements, etc. In today’s article, we’re going to start creating a forum using SMF on a Host Color hosting account. I am going [...]

Introduction to Simple Machines Forum (SMF) on Host Color

So far on Mary’s Corner we’ve started looking at how to build a website on your Host Color account, and we’ve specifically looked at how to do this using the MODx CMS. However, what if  instead of building a content based website you want to build a user forum for people to gather and discuss [...]

Creating and Editing Pages on your MODx Website

In the last several posts on Mary’s Column, we started looking at the MODx CMS.  We have installed MODx Evolution 1.0.2 on our HostColor account and explored the backend manager.  In this post, we’re going to go through how to create and manage pages, also known as “resources” on our MODx website.
To start off, as [...]

Exploring the MODx Evolution Backend Manager

In the last post in this column we walked talked about how to install MODx on your HostColor account.   Before we can actually start building our website, it’s important to have a good understanding of the MODx backend manager area as this is where you, as the site developer, will spend most of your time [...]

How to Install MODx on your Host Color Account?

In the previous article on this column, I introduced you to the MODx CMS and it’s benefits.  In this tutorial, we are going to walk through the process of installing the MODx CMS on your Host Color web hosting account. I am going to assume that you already have your hosting account set up and [...]

Starting Your Own Web Show

Many people have asked me on how I started Tech Conclave, a technology news show and video podcast that lets geeks and technology enthusiasts from around the world to become tech correspondents. Before I engaged with my own online show, I was already exposed to several podcasts and saw many online shows that encouraged me [...]

MODx CMS - Introduction

In the last post where I introduced this column, I mentioned that I was going to focus on content management systems and how to get started using them to build and maintain websites. In today’s post, I am going to start talking about one of my favorite content management systems - MODx CMS. Host Color [...]

Introduction To The CMS Journey

Welcome to Mary’s Corner, a new column on the Host Color blog that is intended to be both informative and educative, and to help you make the best use of your Host Color hosting account and to exploit all the features available to you when building your websites and creating your online presence.
There are many [...]

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