A few years ago I wrote a post about Pingdom.  (See below for a copy of the post.)  Pingdom monitors your websites to make sure they’re up and running.  It’s a great service and I still use them today.  I see that they now offer a free account for monitoring one website or server. Is [...]

Earlier I explained how to prepare for your update by backing up your files.  Now it’s time to actually do the the update.  Are you nervous?  Don’t be.  Updating WordPress is amazingly easy. Log into your dashboard.  You’ll see the “Please update now” message at the top of the screen. Click on “Please update now.”  [...]

How do you upgrade your WordPress software?  The upgrade itself is easy and will be addressed in Part Two of this series.  However, before you upgrade you should backup what you’ve got now.  This is just in case something goes hideously and horribly wrong.  Will anything go hideously and horribly wrong?  Probably not.  I’ve updated [...]

A customer came to me with an Etomite driven website that needed an upgrade. Etomite is a CMS (Content Management System) that helps people maintain and publish their websites.  Etomite isn’t the most difficult system to use, but it’s not really user friendly.  So I convinced the customer to switch to a different CMS.  I [...]