We’re all about helping people build their awesome ideas here at POP. What better way to kick off a hackathon or build an MVP than setting yourself up with a free Amazon EC2 instance with Elastic Block Storage and Relational Data Service for free. We’ll walk you through a step by step guide on how…
This past week, Google announced their annual Security Checkup. The offer boasted an extra 2GB of free Google Drive storage for completing a yearly security checkup. All that was required was for you to sign into your Google account and review your security settings. Sounds simple, right? While the process may have been painless, some…
A little good SEO never hurt anyone and can in fact get you found online! Get acquainted with the basics of what you can use to get your site noticed on search engines like Google. If you want to know more, check out this great article that goes very in-depth on Moz. What is SEO? SEO stands…
Congratulations–you have an awesome idea and a domain to match! (Right? If not, get started here!) There’s lots to do to get your idea out to the world, but one super easy way of looking professional right off the bat is to have a great logo. Assuming you haven’t already paid someone to dream it up…
We’re perusing a lot of resumes for interns these days, and we’ve seen some really great examples of what to do – and some truly terrible examples of what not to do. Hey, we’ve been there, we’ve even made some of those same mistakes ourselves. So we wanted to share what we, an employer, actually want to…
Have you noticed that often when you make a change to your website like moving where it’s hosted or even switching website builders that it can take a while to come online–sometimes as long as 24-48 hours? Yeah, it’s annoying. While we wish we could tell you that we have a solution to make the…
With great Simple Pages come great looks! Since we think seeing is believing, we’ve collected just a few of our favorite Simple Pages for to kick your inspiration into high gear. You can find out what elements they used to build their pages as well as learn more about some cool features that come standard…
You may have noticed some (pretty) new faces on our home page. At POP, you know we’re all about getting your idea online fast and for free (with no small amount of style, we might humbly add!). We wracked our brains for the best way to visually demonstrate this; should we have animations of domains…
Sucuri Security released a public announcement on October 8th regarding a large scale attack which could leave your blog at risk of hackers gaining unauthorized access. To summarize, attackers are taking advantage of a vulnerability in WordPress’s XML-RPC system.multicall method which effectively allows them to issue hundreds of login attempts with a single request. To…
Like most people that are trying to balance their work and personal life, I have two email accounts that I go back and forth opening all day. I thought that I struck gold when I discovered using two separate browsers – Google Chrome and Safari – to load each account, so that I wouldn’t have…
