I was asked this question today, and I realized that some of you might find the answer interesting.

Your old school developer's Dreamweaver and HTML coding skills are so ass-backward in this era of shockingly powerful web applications, that your old school (uni-directional, broadcasting) marketing site is worse than defunct.  It's irrelevant. Why? Because it's not part of the conversation that new social media marketing requires.

OK, so I'm probably slower than most. And I don't like to be dragged through online tutorials and FAQ sections, only to waste my time.  I'm the sort who likes to jump in with both feet and figure out something I don't understand.

So it took me forever to figure out where the SugarCRM setting is for timing automatic email retrievals.  My web development, hosting, SEO/SEM company XmediaServices.com is now using the Open Source version of SugarCRM, to pull together our distributed workforce.  Also to be able to better serve our customers looking for a good and cost-effective Open Source CRM. It's working pretty well, and its nice to have all the records and docs we need in one place.

So for those of you SugarCRM users tired of manually clicking the "get mail" button, it's located under settings (when you have the mail window open).  As you can see, I have mine set at 5 min. intervals. Impatient I guess.

FYI: I made this screen shot, with the fancy red arrow using image capture, sizing and commenting program Skitch.  It was about 100% easier than using Adobe Fireworks!  It's on a free "public beta" right now. But I would actually pay for it, because it saves me that much time, and bizarrely enough, it's fun to use. And no they didn't pay me to say that. Though I wish they would.

In the Wild Wild Web, It's not a question of if your website will be hacked, it's when.  So you must, must, must back up your website. Whether that's hourly, daily, weekly or monthly, that depends on how much you can afford to lose.

If your site gets any degree of traffic or even if it doesn't, because you are on the Joomla platform you will be targetted for hacking.