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Cloud Based file sharing

I am sure everyone has heard of the “Cloud”, it basically means somewhere on the Internet, without being specific. Of course we all place our trust in this and anticipate that “somewhere” is safe and secure.

A Home-Start regional office contacted me with a problem. They were based in two locations. At least one of which was using a local government network and firewall before being able to access the internet. Cloud based file sharing systems such as DropBox were deliberately blocked by the firewall. In this case (understandably) it was the policy of the IT department to prevent files being sent out of the location to potentially insecure places.

The Home-Start regional office had a core set of files (probably procedures) that they wanted to share between the two sites. Such that both sites could edit them and save them back. Continue reading Cloud Based file sharing

Automated backup now available

Available from the 15th of February

Following a week of tests I have now purchased a premium plugin which can automate backups of your site and store them off of the hosting somewhere.

I have been using DropBox which is a free cloud storage facility which is also replicated on your local computer. It is now possible to backup to your organisations DropBox account and hold 8 weekly backups on a rolling basis. That is two months of backups, and it will cost you nothing, happens automatically, so you don’t have to do anything once it is configured. Continue reading Automated backup now available

Video Tutorials

At least one person in each client organisation was sent a list of 10 videos that cover tutorials on various aspects of editing. They were asked to share the video’s with other people within their organisations. The 10 original videos are now available online. They cover the following:

Login Screen, how it works
Logging in and simple editing including locating content to change and how to change it.
Creating and editing Links within WordPress and externally
Creating News using Posts on your site
Form Manager, where is it, and how it works
Backing up your WordPress site
Preparing images for uploading to a WordPress site
Using Google Analytics on your site to review performance and user behaviour
Backlinks and why they are important
Creating a Newsletter from your WordPress website

To access the tutorials you need to go to here. (Requires a password for access)