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What You Need To Back Up WordPress

Posted  September 29, 2011  by  Neil Haywood

Over the last couple of days there are a few people I have come across who are now wishing (for one reason or another) that they had backed up their WordPress Blog so they could revert back to a good working copy. The sad fact is, we all get bitten by not having spent time [...]

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Installing WordPress From Scratch – Step 3 – Your Web Host

Posted  September 23, 2011  by  Neil Haywood

Today I’m going to be discussing the last thing you need before you even start to attempt to install WordPress. Your webhost. You need a place to put the WordPress files for your website so they are accessible to the world. Chances are you don’t have your own server connected to the Internet 24/7 so [...]

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I want to share my other passion with you

Posted  September 15, 2011  by  Neil Haywood

I’m one of the lucky one as I love my job. There isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t do something which is IT related. Most of the time these days I’m blogging, but normally I’m fixing a laptop or checking an email server. There are a lot of people who don’t know about my [...]

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Search Engine Optimization – Anchor Text

Posted  September 13, 2011  by  Neil Haywood

A big buzz term when it comes to Search Engine Optimization is Anchor Text. This brings the question “What is Anchor Text?” Put simply its the click-able hyperlink which is underlined (normally in blue) on a webpage. Here’s an example on how I could link to my business partners website http://www.larry-lewis.com The code to make [...]

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Installing WordPress From Scratch – Step 2 – Your Database

Posted  September 12, 2011  by  Neil Haywood

One of the requirements to using WordPress is you need to have a database. The database is used to store all your dynamic content. This includes items like your blog posts, text on your pages, comments, users on the site, custom plugin information etc. The database size doesn’t have to be that big either because [...]

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Become A Blogger

So you want to be a blogger?

There are loads of new blogs appearing on the World Wide Web on a daily basis. Why have they become some popular? The main reason is how easy they are to modify and update. WordPress is an excellent platform to use for your blo...
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Learn From Blackberry And Test Your Backups

Find out what caused the recent issues with Blackberry phones and how you can avoid making the same mistakes as Blackberry.
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What I Do When Setting Up A New Windows Laptop

Today my business partner Larry was behaving like a child. His new laptop had arrived yesterday and my first job of the day was to set up his brand new spanking Sony VIAO. I’m going to show you what I do step-by-step with...
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What You Need To Back Up WordPress

Over the last couple of days there are a few people I have come across who are now wishing (for one reason or another) that they had backed up their WordPress Blog so they could revert back to a good working copy. The sad fact ...
by Neil Haywood
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Learning HTML Isn’t Difficult

Compaired to most programming languages, HTML is one of the easiest programming languages I work with on a day to day basis. The problem is when you start mixing other languages into the HTML code. Scripting and PHP code can tu...
by Neil Haywood
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How To Change The Default Password On Your Wireless Router

Most people I talk to don’t realise they can access their router and change a lot of useful settings. The default password for one! All techies know the most common default user names and passwords for wireless routers an...
by Neil Haywood
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The Most Important HTML Tag for SEO

There is one tag out of all the HTML tags which is the most important tag of all. What you put in this tag can be the difference between getting lots of visitors onto your website or none at all. Which tag am I referring to? It...
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Installing WordPress From Scratch – Step 3 – Your Web Host

Today I’m going to be discussing the last thing you need before you even start to attempt to install WordPress. Your webhost. You need a place to put the WordPress files for your website so they are accessible to the worl...
by Neil Haywood
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5 Reasons your laptop is slow

The main complaint I get from customers is their laptop isn’t like it was when they bought it. Its too slow. Here are the top 5 reasons I find on a daily basis to why a loptop may not be performing as good as it should be...
by Neil Haywood
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An Intorduction to the World Wide Web – Part 2

In An Introduction to the World Wide Web – Part 1, I gave you a very basic description of what the World Wide Web is. In the following parts I will be explaining the three key components and how you can use this knowledg...
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An Introduction to the World Wide Web – Part 1

I’ve been writing a few introduction articles to get Call The IT Guy off the ground. Most of them will go into detail on how to use WordPress and how to set up a blog. Most of the information I will provide in these posts...
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