In order to successfully installing Worpress 2.7 onto CPanel just following this simple to use guide:

Part one Installation:

1. Download the main zip (compressed) file from: http://wordpress.org/download/

2. When you have  downloaded the zipped file, save it to the correct location (in relation to where it will be going on your hosting server).

For this example installation, we will upload it to our main root folder (e.g. public_html).

3. As soon as you have confirmed that the zip file has been uploaded, to the correct location - Log into your CPanel account, and then click: the File Manager option.

4. In CPanel / File Manager - select the zip file (which in this example is in the foot folder, or public_html). Then click the un-pack option from the top horizontal menu.

5. The CPanel File Manager wizard will now unzip the Word Press zip files into the same directory.

Part two installation:

6. Close the File Manager page, and instead open the MySQL Databases page.

7. In the CPanel MySQL Databases page, you will need to create a new database, user and password. Wordpress will install and create the necessary DB tables within your new DB using your new user and password.

8. Once you have done this you will need to give permission to that User to use your new DB; So choose that User and Database you want to authorise access to, and then click Add.

9. Download and Change the name of the file: wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php, updating your correct User, Database, and Password details within the file; Once done then re-upload this file to the sever (with the new name).

10. If you need to move files around, this is the time to do this, including removing any container folders in order to thave your new Word Press website run from the root or main folder (public_html).

Wordpress Plugins

February 14, 2009    Category: CMS and Blogs

article about current effective wordpress plugins.

Wordpress Themes

February 14, 2009    Category: CMS and Blogs

article on the leading provider of wordpress themes.w

In the current economic downturn, for very small business, we would always advise that they use a pre-built open website design, as it not only lowers initial design and development costs, but also gives the client the chance to see their new website (90% of it) before any work begins.

If you have worked with small business then you will no doubt recognise the fact that initial designs can be a complete nightmare that never seems to end. One part the website design gets changed or evolved, and then often a few days or weeks later the client will ask if ‘we can try this or that’. By using an open design you essentially can get your client to sign-off (on the design) upfront leaving them to concentrate on content rather than design.

In most of the cases that we have worked with the client has been more than happy to keep the designers link in place, thereby shaving days of initial design and development time - which can be quite a substantial saving - up to 80% of project costs in some cases.

For those that are adamant that they do not want the designers link, then in a lot of cases we have worked on, the designer is more than happy for them to remove the link for a small fee.

In order to present and highlight the professional designs currently being released as Open Designs, we have now created a new website called: Open Websites - built using exactly the same technique - e.g. the customisation of an existing open website design.

We hope to work with some of the providers of these designs in order to make the process of either employing the designer to customise the design further, or to remove the designer’s link, a much easier affair.

If like us you have say 5 or more log-ins per domain (hosting log-ins, email, social sites, applications, etc) and have so 10+ accounts, then trying to remember passwords is a complete nightmare.

Now rather than use insecure, easy to remember (and easy to hack) passwords, we would instead recommend the excellent, free, open source password manager KeePass.

By being open source you can download the code and check it is not doing insecure or unsafe things with your essential log-ins!

Also if you currently use E-Wallet, AnyPassword, Oubliette, PINs, or PasswordSafe - you can now import your existing password database straight into KeePass.

Now with a new beta version, as well as many very useful modules or add-ons, not to mention ports on to other operating systems - including PocketPC or SmarthPhone,  now is definitelythe time to utilise this ESSENTIAL software.

Blog Comments SEO

February 14, 2009    Category: CMS and Blogs, Internet Marketing

article about the use of blogs and their comments to increase website visitors and traffic statistics.

OSCommerce SEO

February 1, 2009    Category: CMS and Blogs, ECommerce

There are various ways that you can make OSCommerce more effective in terms of SEO.

These include the following that we will expand in this article at a later date.

  • <h> tags
  • Category link backs
  • Related Category link backs
  • Product header hacks
  • Fancy URLs
  • Google SiteMaps
  • Keyword Searching
  • Faux Magento

Wordpress SEO

January 25, 2009    Category: CMS and Blogs

Wordpress offers owners key requirements for SEO, however like all websites, SEO shouldn’t be something that you bolt-on, but instead should be something that build into the design from day one. In terms of Wordpress this equates to not only turning on various modules, but also deciding on your page and article structure in order to enhance your SEO.

Clearly if your pages, categories, and tags are not relevant to you main keywords then clearly this would pollute the SEO you are trying to achieve. Often before starting your website, be it Wordpress or otherwise, you should think clearly about what you want to achieve and even, perhaps, take a good long look at your competitors. What have do done well, how effective has it been; what have they done badly, and what has been the results of this.

In our opinion Wordpress offers some of the most effective SEO add-on’s available for any CMS or Blog, with many other being developed independently as we speak now. It also offers you the tools that you need in order to plan and implement effective SEO for your website (tags, categories, fancy-URLs, etc).

Joomla 1.5 CMS

January 25, 2009    Category: CMS and Blogs

Joomla! is a free open source content management system for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalisation. Joomla is licensed under the GPL (general purpose license), and is the result of a fork of Mambo.

The name Joomla officially ends with an exclamation mark, but this is commonly omitted.

It is written in the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database by default.