Well are you? Do have a copy of your recent work backed up on a USB, Portable Hard Drive or even better, somewhere off site? Starting a back up program after you have lost all your data is just to late. Backing up your data can be as simple as having all you files...
Read more →What is a meta description tag? The “meta tags” form part of the html on your web page, however they are not a necessary part of a web pages structure. The “meta tags” are used to pass basic information from your page to another page should it be requested. Google, Bing and Yahoo access...
Read more →What is Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)? SEO is the process of improving the position of your website in search engines after specific keywords are typed into the search box. The most popular search engines are Google, Bing and Yahoo. SEO improves your position on the free listings on the popular search engines. The ultimate...
Read more →It has been a couple of months since I posted the start of the trial period for using Google Adwords. Google had offered a $75 voucher plus for signing up as a new user, the total charges for the period came to $85, so I needed to add another $10. The earnings for the...
Read more →One of my websites, www.katesperfumery.com has not been forthcoming in attracting visitors and in turn is not making any money. I have made some pretty feeble attempts to attract visitors over the last 18 months since owning the domain name. Recently though, I found a simple piece of software which has enabled me to...
Read more →Take a moment to make a donation to the American Red Cross which in turn will aid the victims of the New Zealand and Japanese earthquakes. At the time of writing over 8,000 are confirmed dead and over 12,000 people are still missing. Please help people that are in a less fortunate position, lots of small amounts...
Read more →Global warming, climate change, reducing our dependence on fossil fuels and social responsibility, these issues are important to me, and I am hoping that the readers of this article may feel the same. My websites are hosted so they have a low carbon footprint and in the immediate future the carbon footprint will be...
Read more →Google page rank, why I don’t strive for a higher page rank for my websites. If being listed on Google’s first page is your goal then I would be focusing on other measures to increase you likelihood to make the coveted first page of Google. In short Page Rank is attained by having quality incoming links...
Read more →My challenge in this post is to create 2 websites, both will be free and will contain no advertising from the website host to spoil your page. I will document all the relevant information and will create a simple website on all the sites involved. I am going to split the free web sites...
Read more →Sunday morning and I am browsing the WordPress Dashboard, checking for upgrades and viewing the stats for this website while having the mandatory cup of coffee. WordPress has a plug-in called Akismet, which comes as part of the standard install. This plug-in monitors the comments left and separates the spam from the bona-fide comments. While savouring...
Read more →After you have composed and posted your blog entry, what next? Do you just leave and hope that people will browse to your website or do you promote your entry and let the greater community know, what has been written? I use WordPress to manage my blog, a benefit of using WordPress is to be...
Read more →Apart from knowing how to register a domain, organise hosting and add content to your web page. What hardware and software can I use to make a website, is my computer good enough do I have to buy expensive software? As a web page designer and an article writer I am sharing with you...
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