Stanley Sim

Designing wireless coverage for a school

Published by Stanley Sim on June 18, 2021

With the introduction of BYOD programs, it is crucial for schools to provide wireless networks to the school communities. The school environment presents a challenging scenario to set up a reliable wireless network. I am going to describe the design and implementation of the wireless network in a school that I worked with. After the new implementation, each classroom was able to achieve an average of 60 – 80 Mbps. This school subscribes to an 80 Mbps internet plan, which is considered a fast plan in Jakarta. The original network When I started working in the school, there were Wi-Fi…

Introduction to CyberPanel

Published by Stanley Sim on January 1, 2021

CyberPanel is an easy to use control panel. It comes bundled with functions that allow you to perform some common web hosting admistrative tasks. This post is an introduction to CyberPanel to a user with User privilege. https://quiklaunch.com/introduction-to-cyberpanel/ If you are beginning to use CyberPanel, this post will give you an overview of what you can do with it to manage your website.

Sending Microsoft 365 Email as Alias

Published by Stanley Sim on December 19, 2020

Microsoft 365, formerly Office 365, allows you to create multiple aliases with a single paid account. After the alias account is created within the admin centre, you can start receiving emails using the alias account. The emails will land in the inbox of your primary account. However, if you reply the emails, the person who received your it will see that it was sent from your primary account. It is possible to send email using the alias account. The process is simple and it requires you to create an IMAP/POP account manually. In this article, I will explain how you…

Starting a New WordPress Site

Starting a New WordPress Site

Published by Stanley Sim on December 17, 2020

In this article, I will explain some fundamental knowledge of using WordPress for a beginner. This will help you to get your site up fast so that you could start writing posts for your audience. The content I will cover in this article is Logging in to the administrator dashboard Changing the theme of your site Difference between a page and a post Tying up the navigation with menus Logging in to the administrator dashboard To start working on your WordPress site, you need to log in to the admin dashboard. The default URL to log in to the admin…

Staging WordPress with CyberPanel

Published by Stanley Sim on December 1, 2020

Staging a WordPress site clones an exact copy of your site to a subdomain. This is commonly used when you want to modify your site drastically. One example is to change your site’s theme. Although changing the theme is easily done with just a few clicks, when you site is large and complex, the layouts of different components may differ from your expectations. You probably would not want your visitors to see your site looking disorganised. Staging your site clones your live site to a different URL so that you can conduct all the testings on the staging site without…

Setting up email in WordPress

Published by Stanley Sim on November 20, 2020

Many beginning WordPress users discovered early that their sites do not deliver emails to the inboxes. This failure to deliver emails could cause them to lose potential customers or readers. Another important consequence of this failure is that they or their readers do not receive the email resetting passwords. https://quiklaunch.com/how-to-setup-email-in-wordpress/ This post contains useful settings to setup your WordPress email SMTP servers.

How to install a new WordPress theme

Published by Stanley Sim on November 13, 2020

The appearance of a WordPress site is the most important criteria to any WordPress site owners. In this post, you will learn how to install your WordPress theme from the free themes in the marketplace and other internet sources. https://quiklaunch.com/how-to-install-a-new-wordpress-theme/ Installing a WordPress theme is a simple process.

Digitising Paper Document

Published by Stanley Sim on April 11, 2020

Our smartphones have very powerful cameras. The high resolution of the cameras could be used as scanners. With the right techniques, documents scanned with smartphones could be of very high quality. Incorrect Techniques When students need to submit work online, many students would capture the documents as if they were taking photos. They would then submit multiple images as their work. There are a few problems when students submit their work this way. It could be seen that images are large. Given that our phones have 40-megapixels cameras, an image could be tens of megabytes in size. Multiply this by…

Using Zoom

Published by Stanley Sim on April 10, 2020

Zoom had exploded in popularity among education institutions during COVID-19 outbreak, allowing teachers and students to conduct online lessons during school closures. Below are two videos to help teachers to get started with using Zoom. There is also one video for students to learn how to log in and share content in a Zoom session.

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