Apr 20 2012
The National Encyclopaedia – circa 1890
Maps from the National Encyclopaedia, published circa 1890 by William Mackenzie.
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Feb 4 2012
How to configure, upload and install WordPress.
First thing to do is to visit http://www.wordpress.org and download the latest version of WordPress. Don’t download it from anywhere else but wordpress.org, as you could end up with a compromised version of WordPress.
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Jan 26 2012
How to use FTP to connect to your site.
After finding a suitable website host, you will need to know how to upload your site (the WordPress directory) to your server. This is generally done using a FTP client, and for the purpose of this tutorial we’ll be using Filezilla.
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Jan 22 2012
How to find a website host?
This website is hosted by a company called 1and1, which is one of the biggest in the world. I signed up to them simply because they offered the features that I needed, at a decent price, with a special offer of one years free hosting, if I signed up for two. Prior to that I was with a company called Heart Internet.
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Jan 20 2012
First steps to building your own website
Website building and updating used to be a bit of a technical exercise, but nowadays with the wealth of Content Management Systems, and webhosts who will configure it all for you, there’s very little reason to pay someone else to build or maintain a basic website, except for a lack of time.
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Jan 19 2012
Is iBooks Author the killer app for eBook creation?
I like eBooks, and I have a Kindle. I also have a few old books like I’d like to scan and convert into ebooks, maybe give them away or even sell them. Amazon is very good at ebook publishing, even from independents, but because of the format that the Kindle uses (either mobi or azw) creation of ebooks can be quite laborious, especially when you don’t use software like Microsoft Word.
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