YVOD Support

To own a domain you must register it every year. The charge for this is between $10 and $45 dollars. YVOD charges $10.

Each domain has three “Contacts” associated with it. The Registrant (that’s you) actually owns the domain and receives all administration emails relating to the domain. The Billing person receives notices when the domain is about to expire. The Technical person has authorization to update information about the domain. Ideally you want all three to be different people in order to enable to most people to fix any problems.

You alway own the domain. It does not matter who “hosts” it.

Hosting fees are separate. Each hosting company has their own business model. GoDaddy wants to host millions of domains
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WordPress is a flexible publishing engine behind your website. Much of it’s power comes from the many plugins written for it. PodPress is the plugin YVOD recommends clients use to publish their videos. Once you install the plugin, use the quick steps below to publish your video on your website.

1) Shoot your video
2) Open the video in Quicktime
4) Scroll through your video until you find a scene you want to represent the video [this is called a Poster Frame]
5) Export for the web (Shift-Command-E)

6) Select ONLY the iPhone option [the iPhone (Cellular) and Computer options can be ignored]
7) Name your file without capitals and without spaces or special characters. Hyphens (-) and underscores (_) are fine.
8) Upload
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[Update:] This issue has been fixed with WordPress 3.0.

WordPress has this nice feature where you can automatically upgrade your plugins from within the Administration area. Unfortunately, this feature was broken on a site I recently upgraded. I found this cool work around. Simply put the following two lines in the wp-config.php file:

//Automatic Upgrade fix – http://wordpress.org/support/topic/238738
putenv(’TMPDIR=’ . ini_get(’upload_tmp_dir’));

Please review the included screenshots to configure your iPhone to use YVOD’s email services.

Settings / Mail, Contacts, Calendars / Accounts

SMTP

Advanced

Authentication

Note: It is possible that you will need to set Authentication to Password instead of MD5 Challenge-Response. I have also found that even when I make this change in Authentication, sometimes it only works after I shut the phone off and then power it on again.

I suspect that the phone will go out
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Cookies – What They Are

HTTP is, by design, a stateless protocol. Each HTTP transaction occurs independent of any previous or future transaction. Each transaction (session) consists of these steps:

1) user connects to a HTTP server, making a request for a web page (or other data)
2) server acknowledges request, responds with web page (or other data)
3) transaction is terminated (disconnects)

There is no way for the server to “relate” transactions to each other. No way for the server to know there was a previous transaction with a particular client nor what happened if there was. Hence, the concept of stateless.

Problems using Cookies

The most obvious problem relying on cookies is a user completely disabling them. If your web page relies on them,
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YVOD works very hard to get rid of spam. Unfortunately, spammers work very hard to get past our efforts. We run every single message through our spam filters but some spam still gets through. You have three good options:

1) Download email to your computer and run additional spam checking locally

This is YVOD’s preferred option as local clients have excellent spam filters. Unfortunately, this options does nothing to help with devices that do not have spam filters (iPhone).

2) Forward email to a free online service (Gmail, Yahoo)

They have fantastic spam filters but read all your email so they can spam you with ads. One client received offers for Viagra from Google because
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Do you check your mail by logging into webmail at http://your-domain/mail?

If you DO, check the Spam Detection box.

If you DO NOT, do not check the Spam Detection box.

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That’s the simple answer. The longer answer is that all email that comes to your domain from the outside world goes through a spam filtering process. EVERY SINGLE MESSAGE is marked as spam or not spam.

When you check the “Spam Detection” box, messages marked as spam go into your online Spam folder. The ONLY way to review them is by logging into http://your-domain/mail and then looking within your Spam folder. You can not see these messages any other way. (This makes sense since they
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Coll stuff no? =)

When you forward your YVOD-hosted domain email to another non-YVOD account, YVOD does NOT keep a copy of the email message. YVOD has no way to help you with email problems when you forward email.

A much better solution is to configure your email application (Apple Mail, Outlook, Gmail, etc) to check your YVOD account and grab the mail off our servers. YVOD makes weekly backups of all email so if you leave the messages on our server for a week, you will have a backup.

How nice. How sweet. How easy =)

All YVOD email accounts use industry standard POP3 mail accounts. Gmail has a great ability to grab your mail automatically off YVOD servers. This means that you can continue to enjoy the benefits of your very own personalized email yet use the power of Google. Here’s what you do:

1) Log into your Gmail account and click the “Settings” tab in the upper right corner.

2) Click the “Accounts” tab.

3) Click the “Add another mail account” link and follow the instructions.

You will need the following information:

Email address: <your full email address>
Username: <your full email address>
Password: <your password>
POP Server: mail.your-domain
Port: 110