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Hosting your website

Tips on website hosting

Hosting your website means, loosely translated, where you will store the files that make up your site so that others on the Internet can have access to them.

Sorry if that’s over-simplistic for some people, but when I first started out on-line I had no idea what hosting was but everyone assumed I knew!

Deciding where to host your website and/or blog is not a decision to be made lightly. Unfortunately I DID make it lightly, because I didn’t understand all the implications. Hopefully reading this wil help you avoid the mistakes I made.

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Head in the Clouds, Speeding up my Blog

So, it’s time to review the week – yet again. At one level it’s been a very productive week, doing the work for my book-keeping clients, but my Internet and Hair Analysis work takes a hit. Never mind, at the moment the book-keeping is the more profitable!

Speeding up my Blog

But I haveHead in the Clouds, Speeding up my Blog 1 made some progress – and the cloud by the side is a clue. Those of you who follow Jan Kearney’s blog will have read about the Cloudinary plugin, where you host your images on the Cloud, to speed up your blog’s image load time. Another cool feature of the plugin is that you can manipulate the images “in situ” and apply “effects”.

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WordPress Header Design

Do you like my new WordPress header design? It’s thanks to Angela McCall who is starting her online design business and was kind enough to offer me a free header to showcase her work.

I only met Angela a few weeks ago through blogging, although she actually feels like a friend already (as do many readers of this blog).

WordPress Header Design

So, here is one of Angela’s first designs for her new business and I’m really delighted with it. The original header looked as if it had been “knocked up” in Paint – for the very good reason that it HAD been (by graphically-challenged me). So I jumped at the chance of one of Angela’s professional designs.

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Malware and Gremlins

Stressed man and technology overloadOh dear. Last week’s post found me frustrated because I had to take a side-ways stop and remove Jetpack, then find a a different way to subscribe to my blog. This I thought I had managed to do, but “things” fell apart and Google decided my PC had been attacked by malware and gremlins.