Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

Ellie2758

I'm just in awe of you PN. I did the EDCL and passed but I never use the stuff. Use puters at work but struggle to understand WHY things go wrong whereas my colleagues seem to have the knack of it.

Not understanding IT is a major disadvantage these days. It means that when i move out and am strapped for cash I cant even get myself a little temping office job to get extra dosh cos I am so OUT of the loop.

What IS SEO? I keep seeing it in copy but it means nothing. As as ex civil servant all I can think of is Senior Executive Officer...

sss555s

Ellie2758 wrote: »

What IS SEO? I keep seeing it in copy but it means nothing. As as ex civil servant all I can think of is Senior Executive Officer...

Search engine optimisation.

It keeps you at the top or near the top of the first page on a google search if done properly and maintained.

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

Domains and hosting should always be with big sites. .

When I've done web sites in the past, I have always registered the domain with one company, and hosted it at another. I make sure that the domain is registered with a company like godaddy, 123 or similar that registers tens of millions of domains.

The reason for this is that if a hosting company get stroppy, they have been known to take ages to transfer your domain. If you have control over the nameservers for the domain, you can preempt them.

The second thing is backup... it is always your responsibility to back up, even if your contract says the host will do so. I highly recommend always having the means to restore your site. So if your host goes bankrupt, you don't also.

These two hints mean if something does go wrong with your host, your web site can be back within a couple of hours.

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

When I've done web sites in the past, I have always registered the domain with one company, and hosted it at another. I make sure that the domain is registered with a company like godaddy, 123 or similar that registers tens of millions of domains.

The reason for this is that if a hosting company get stroppy, they have been known to take ages to transfer your domain. If you have control over the nameservers for the domain, you can preempt them.

The second thing is backup... it is always your responsibility to back up, even if your contract says the host will do so. I highly recommend always having the means to restore your site. So if your host goes bankrupt, you don't also.

These two hints mean if something does go wrong with your host, your web site can be back within a couple of hours.

I choose my domain registrar for stability - and my hosting companies for access/features. About 8 years ago hosting companies were pretty locked down as to what you could do/get to, so I used a few 'smaller' hosts who would let you get to the 'dangerous bits'.

The host I had that disappeared was powersofthosting, the one I had that migrated my site and it stopped working was webhost4life.

Times change, needs change .... and it's only when something goes wrong that you find out the problems with your choices

Backups .... nice idea. When my site was migrated they'd done backups. Great. I had to change hosts as my site was no longer working and there were two backups: [1] the CMS/system [2] the DB. The DB alone was 4GB. 4GB down then up again on a dongle = not happening.

SingleSue

We are currently changing the rooms over so that eldest can have a room of his own (just taking a 5 minute break as my back is killing me!), during the clear out, I discovered an old memory box containing the cards we received when eldest was born, newspaper announcements for their births, photos and youngest's red book. It was quite eek to find it today, especially the birth cards for eldest as it is his 17th birthday tomorrow.

I sat there looking through all the bits and pieces, crying my eyes out, I have become a sentimental old fool!

silvercar

Competition time folks:

http://www.truelifecosts.com/competition

Prize is a years supply of chocolate!

lostinrates

I've just thanked a whole load of techy posts I don't understand and glazed over just because you are all so clever.

Trees, trees, trees. We've cut dozens down now. all feeling a little exposed now! Only about 15 more to go I think. Been tackling some ground elder today. Scourge. Its taken an hour or so to work over about two square metres and you just know you've never done it well enough and bits of root have escaped you. I'm not to proud to use round up, but it is too wet, and its late in the season. Brambles are also a big weed here, and they daunt me.

GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

Competition time folks:

http://www.truelifecosts.com/competition

Prize is a years supply of chocolate!

Too good to pass up. Don't tick the boxes at the bottom of the page!

tomterm8

If that company thinks 52 bars of chocolate is a years supply... well, really. What is the world comeing to.

NB, I have cut down too much bramble in my life... acres and acres of bramble... I hate bramble...

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

If that company thinks 52 bars of chocolate is a years supply... well, really. What is the world comeing to.

NB, I have cut down too much bramble in my life... acres and acres of bramble... I hate bramble...

52 is perfect!

Thats what we have....acres and acres of bramble.....

well, we have about a solid 1/3 acre some where, and about 1/5 somewhere else. On the plus side our hedges have lots of bramble too, and it a good dense stock proof sort of way, and nice eating berry, not those three bobbles on a thorn things. Why anyone would need hedges that at points are about 20 foot deep in the corners....only about 8-10 feet at there thickest elsewhere, thank goodness..I don't know!

The grund elder had me almost in tears today. Yet again a kind person bought us plant, and I'm so grateful and I love gardening, but the whole time I'm trying to clear room for decorative garden is time we're not getting to the fields or where the veg plot should be, or the house....or the timber. Still. The gifts meant we dug out the first tiny bit of our ''yellow, apricot and pink'' garden. The white border ...all 2 metres of that (scratched out in front of the least structurally compromised bit of house) looks pretty good. I was gifted bulbs for that, but there is no room where no walls are falling down:rotfl: