Smartypants.com is a Fredericton-based company focusing on web and tech support services for residential and small business customers.
We began hosting web sites in 1993. The face of the Internet may have changed dramatically in the intervening years, but the basics have remained the same: reliable, cost-effective service with rapid response if and when there is a problem.
Through our partners and affiliates we also provide services such as web design and development, eCommerce, and creative services for new and traditional media.
Talk to usMacmail blew up on me again a week ago, and appeared to lose three busy days worth of email. That was the last straw.
But switching to another email client was a lot more difficult...
Continue ReadingThis short video will show you the basics of using FTP to upload your website to your Smartypants.com hosting account.
Continue ReadingRecently, a Flickr-powered photo gallery stopped working on a site that we developed. Investigating the problem a bit further, it appears that the add-on we were using (Brett Dewoody’s...
Continue ReadingThis one has been a personal pet-peeve of mine for a while now: text fields that hijack the “Tab” key, breaking the Ctrl-Tab & Ctrl-Shift-Tab keyboard shortcuts (to switch between...
Continue ReadingWordPress is one of the most popular blogging/CMS (Content Management System) applications in existence; according to some statistics, WordPress accounts for more than 50 per cent of...
Continue ReadingEllis Labs' ExpressionEngine is one of the best CMS packages available; if you've done development work with it, then you're probably already familiar with its advantages over other...
Continue ReadingBack in November of 2017, we wrote about the provider NameCheap.com - and the difficultly we had encountered in getting them to do anything about a website that they hosted, which we...
Continue ReadingIt didn't take long for the domain name registry - the key to all things Internet related - to become soiled by greed. Between GoDaddy's generally successful efforts to hide domain...
Continue ReadingWe've recently noticed a trend of SEO spammers becoming more and more bold - while most of them are still careful enough to avoid putting easily reportable links to their websites in...
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