Back Up Your Files

The start of a new year is always a great time to make sure your computer backups are in order. If you aren’t currently backing up your computer, I’ve outlined a strategy to get backups started, and if you are backing up your files, there are some good tips in here to make sure all your bases are covered. People often think they’ve got everything backed up, but then their drive fails and they’re devastated to find out that they lost important files. If there’s anything that 20 years in the computer industry has taught me, it’s that all hard drives will fail at some point. It’s not a matter of IF your drive will fail, it’s WHEN. And drive recovery is very expensive and often cost-prohibitive (several hundred dollars at a minimum).

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WordPress Basics for Content Owners

There are a lot of good tutorials out there for using WordPress to design a web site, but I wanted to put together a basic overview for those who just need to update the content on an existing basic WordPress site.

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