Create your own Website using Wordpress
There are lots of reasons to have your own website. Among them are:
- Promoting your business
- Showcasing a new product or service
- Sharing with friends and family
These days, setting up a website has never been easier. So, if you have an idea, all you have to do is set the site up. You can do the whole thing often in less than an hour or work.
Try a blog
A blog is simply a form of website where one posts routinely and the posts are shown in chronological order. A modern blog software is really a full blown content management system CMS with sites like Wordpress coming to mind immediately. In other words, blogging is really for anybody with any kind of modern web presence today. The differences between a “website” and a “blog” are pretty much gone today.
Blogs can be used
- for business
- to maximise SEO with the least amount of work
- to share expertise with others
- to simply generate revenue streams
Typically, a company will pay someone like me to do the work for them and while I like to think that I offer good value for money, you can still accomplish the same yourself for far less cost. If time if the issue and you need it fast and professionally then it's time to call me.
The simple way to get yourself on the web with a site that suits you is probably to just go to Wordpress and spend some time using the tools they possess there to create your site for free. All you need is a name that has not been used before, so anyone thinking that "Microsoft" sounds good is probably not going to do well. But if you can think of a decent name and if you have put together a decent site using their CMS tools, you can also use their publication tools to find a URL for your new site. This is likely to be a dot com domain but if that suits then all well and good. The point is you are on the net with a professional looking CMS managed site for a few quid.
That's really all there is to it, but one word of warning - Content is King. Google loves content; in fact Google demands fresh content and backlins if you want to have a hope of hitting the hit numbers. Blogs are handy in that respect since the bots tends to favour that net form and links from other sites and frequent external comments from users will do you favours in the fight to be number one.
Google predictions
Not had much time for the blog but before the end of the year here is a blog entry for predictions for Google, be interesting to see how this pans out in the year. Google + is this the year it happens?
Earlier this year Google Buzz and Google Wave both found themselves dumped by their Google overlords, although it could be argued that elements of both these applications have returned in some ways to Google +. The Google gang have never been shy of waving bye bye to things which don't work so I would suggest that the future for Google + and perhaps even the seemingly unknown Latitude could also be bleak.
Privacy not guaranteed.
Facebook is not private...
For some of you lovely people out there this may come as a surprise, but the simple fact of the matter is that data on Facebook is not private. Don't get me wrong, FB is great. Its practically part of life these days. Most people seem to have their facebook page, companies have their company page quite frankly, search for Wanderjahre Computing and you will find us there as well! But Facebook is not the place to hid your deepest darkest secret. Its not the place for anything at all, if that anything is private or confidential or needs to be limited to a small number of people.
Windows 7 Thin PC
Here's something you would probably not expect to hear me say.
There is a very impressive Microsoft operating system out there.
Yes you did hear right and no it's not a joke.
Windows Thin PC is pared down (MS describe as "locked down" version of Win7 which is intended primarily for companies with aging software that don't want to go to the hassle or cost of a full Win 7 roll out. But in addition to be capable of deployment as a virtual machine, Win 7 seems perfectly capable of being used on a stand alone PC.
Seven Facebook Characters
Facebook has around 400,000,000 users and user types are developing faster than the price of petrol can change at the pumps. Here's a few you might recognise
1. The Human Torch
Flame wars - insulting online discussions, debates resulting in back-and-forth personal insults - have been around since the early days of the net. Back in the day, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) allowed people to insult each other in real time and before they had to rely on the vagaries of email and modems. Facebook by contrast allows you to insult someone and make sure that all their friends know about it - an almost irresistible urge for a Human Torch.
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