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Want to create your own Facebook Fan page for yourself, your business or your website? It is easy to do – if you know the right places to look. I recently created one to help promote my various projects, and now I want to help you do the same. This is my guide on how to setup and create a Facebook Fan Page.
Now not saying my e-mail situation is the best setup around, but I do like to think I have a pretty neat foundation in place. Mixing Gmail with Thunderbird and my other mail accounts elsewhere I have everything sent to one place and I can get to it all from one login location either on the desktop or on the Web.
First things first, we have my Gmail account. This acts as my main mail account. From there, I have added all my other mail accounts from other various locations (such as lunarpages.com or mitchkeeler.com) to Gmail. Google’s e-mail client can act as an e-mail fetcher for all your other POP3 e-mail accounts. Here is a post from them describing how to set that up:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=21288
The short version would be go to Settings > Accounts and then “Add Another Mail Account”.
This is where problem two comes into play. I want to be able to use Thunderbird on my desktop PC to manage my e-mail and then Gmail via the browser on my laptop (or anywhere else) to get to all my same mail via the Web. To enable IMAP in Gmail:
To configure Thunderbird for Gmail/IMAP, be sure to check out this post here:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77662
Alright, my mail system is in place and I can mirror Thunderbird with Gmail (or vice versa). There are a few small kinks yet to be worked out though. The worst of them is that your address book will not stay in sync between platforms. You can do this manually of course, but that is a pain in the rear. There are also a few configuration tweaks you have to change to get your tags and folders to match up with the right spot inside of Thunderbird.
Lifehacker has done a good write up on most of these other little tweaks you may wish to do, so check that out for more information. There you have it. It might not be the prettiest system but it does get the job done.
Last week on the Web Hosting Show we covered the world of setting up your own blog from head to toe. From picking out the right Web host to getting your blog configured – it is all there. There was little surprise that for the “cooking show example” I used WordPress, since it is a personal favorite of mine.
With that said – I figured I’d share with the masses the week long guide that we got published over there in hopes that it helps somebody else out there with getting WordPress installed and configured right.
If you want to listen to the entire show or save the mp3 to listen to later – you can download it and listen to it over at WebHostingShow.com.
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
