Month: February 2020

Configure Microsoft Outlook 2010 to access your email account

We no longer provide support for Outlook 2013 and earlier due to incompatibility with the latest security standards. The below instructions may work for you, although we will not be able to provide assistance. If you want to set email client in Outlook with SSL (IMAP), it can be done easily. Follow these steps – 1. Outlook 2010 and above: Click the File tab and then click Account Settings. 2....
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Configure Microsoft Outlook 2013 to access your email account

We no longer provide support for Outlook 2013 and earlier due to incompatibility with the latest security standards. The below instructions may work for you, although we will not be able to provide assistance. This guide explains how to configure your Microsoft Outlook 2013 to access your email account. This tutorial was created using Microsoft Outlook 2013. If you are using a different software...
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Changing your outgoing (SMTP) server address in Outlook

To route your emails through O'Brien Media using Outlook, you will need to change the "Outgoing server (SMTP)" for your email addresses. Then you will be able to send the campaigns you have designed with your own tools, from your usual emailing client. Outlook allows you to use another SMTP relay than your main server. Please review your company’s internal security policy about using an...
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Why don’t custom or specific website fonts (web-fonts) always load?

Originally "Blink" (the shared technology used in browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Safari (on iOS, MacOS, Android and Windows) used fallback fonts installed on the visitors' device if the font loading isn't finished in 3 seconds (an arbitrary number).  As of May 2018 Blink now adjusts this timeout adaptively to improve performance on slow connections. Chrome 53, network quality estimator...
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Managing Elementor pages on your O’Brien Media website

Elementor is a visual page builder plugin for WordPress that we use regularly on websites we develop to enable the creation and editing of web pages in a live, visual way without the website owner needing to write a single line of code. This step-by-step guide walks you through how to create a website using  Elementor. We recommend you watch this 2-minute getting started video, and then try...
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Elementor Live Editor Example – Live View compared to Editor View

The screenshots the below show how our “About us” page looks in the Elementor WordPress editor. The first screenshot shows the "live" about us page, accessible to visitors. The second screenshot shows how the page is initially displayed, in "preview" mode, in the Elementor editor. The final screenshot shows how the page is sectioned, with the blue borders indicating different types of content...
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