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At E-NOISE we are always looking for ways to improve our products and services, so our customers are happy. With this in mind, we recently rolled out a brand new file manager interface in our hosting control panel. The new file manager is not only more attractive than the previous version but also allows you to navigate around the features more quickly and intuitively. The new file manager is now available for our all hosting customers.

The following post is about a recent talk I gave at the company I currently work for. It was meant to re-introduce JavaScript to an audience of seasoned developers.

The aim was to give them a brief overview over the basic features, it's types, what "object oriented" means in JavaScript but also a little about some quirks the language contains.

At E-NOISE we try to write about topics that would interest you as web designers. In this post we will explain how to redirect non-www traffic to a www subdomain and vice versa.

By default most web servers will be configured to display your website both using the www subdomain and without it. For example this two URLs will normally display the same site:

• http://yourdomain.com
• http://www.yourdomain.com

While it is desirable to allow your users to use either URL, it is recommended that you pick one domain (either with or without the www) and stick to that for many reasons including SEO (Search Engine Optimisation).

Every now and again we hear from a customer that her domain is being blocked by spam filters, and this can be a very frustrating problem. When this happens you will normally get an email saying that an email could not be delivered because the IP address or domain is listed with some spam checking site.

IP addresses and domain names get black-listed for many reasons. All of our hosting packages, with the exeption of dedicated servers, will use a shared mail server, which means that other accounts running on the same server can have an effect on your domain getting listed as they share the same IP address. Sometimes servers will also get temporarily listed for no apparent reason.

When this happens, the first thing to do is request the IP or domain to be removed from the list. You will normally find a URL to the service listing your mail server and instructions on how to request the server to be removed. Other than this, what can we do to prevent this kind of problem from happening? This is where SPF records come in.

Very often we have customers asking how to move a site installed in a subdirectory into the main web root. This could be the case if you are working on a new version of your site in a subdirectory like test or beta and once done you want to replace the main site with this. In terms of URLs, lets assume for this example that you have a site at http://yourdomain.com and a new version at http://yourdomain.com/tester, and now we want to move the tester directory so that it replaces the site at http://yourdomain.com.