Perhaps reluctantly, perhaps with great anticipation, you’ve decided you need a website. Maybe it’s for a small business startup, perhaps for a nonprofit, or perchance it’s just for your own personal use. Whatever the case, here’s what you’ll need. An … Continue reading →
One of the many reasons I decided to use Jetpack was because of its support for using Markdown. Markdown, for those who don’t know, provides a way to make lists, headings, links, & other text formatting symbols, e.g., underlining, bold, … Continue reading →
Every airline passenger about to board a plane, & every airline passenger on board a plane, would unanimously agree that the time to check the fuel is while the plane is on the ground. There are no fuel pumps 5 … Continue reading →
Hello, and welcome to #fixitFriday. As a hosting provider & volunteer on the WordPress support forum, I see a lot of the same problems repeatedly, ie, “I can’t log into my dashboard”, “My images/media library are gone”, “I can’t update … Continue reading →
How long has it been since you updated your website? Well that’s probably too long! It’s #WebsiteWednesday! Why not do it now while you’re thinking about it? And why not remind a friend. Keeping your site updated is one of … Continue reading →
If you power your website with a content management system, what really runs your website is a database. It stores your content, as well as other settings pertaining to your site. Backing up your database is one of the easiest … Continue reading →
It’s Sunday afternoon. I probably shouldn’t be thinking about my website, but… So I went to log in and do some work on it, & here’s what I got. Not exactly what I had in mind. So now what? There … Continue reading →
FileZilla is an ftp client that supports secure file transfers, and, as such, it’s 1 of 2 clients that I recommend for working on a website. I strongly suggest that every website owner use a secure method of file transfer … Continue reading →
If all this stuff about hosting, web space, and domain names is geek to you, read on! By the end of this article, you'll have the concepts well in hand. To make these concepts easier to grasp, I'm going … Continue reading →