Wordpress on Abel World

Hosting network services services and websites basics

Thu, 12 Nov 2015 19:47:53 +0200

Hosting network services and websites or blogs like this one is now a days a regular task of anyone who want to conduct a successful business. This is non written a requirement for many other activities as well. If you are not an ICT professional and you have a website or need to deploy some services in your business and you wander where to store them and how. Then this article is for you.

More people than you might think want to get a server at their home or office and host their own websites and services locally. I am not 100% against this type of solutions, but the truth is the all the odds now a days are against it unless you have a particularly special need to have it locally. Let see what are the drawbacks.

Website development projects

Thu, 05 Nov 2015 19:39:13 +0200

Having a good Website is very important for modern business, so some of the last projects that I have been doing lately are related to website development. For instance one of them were done for Team Engineers (Pty) Ltd, Botswana. They already had a website, that needed a platform easier to edit and manage as well as a new look to certain extend and some interactive features. Team Engineers defines itself as follows.

“TEAM Engineers (PTY) Ltd. is a specialist prefabricated accommodation solutions provider. Since its establishment in 1997, TEAM has gone from strength to strength not only in capacity and knowledge, but also in diversity of the product range and our level of service.”

They are the biggest company in Botswana in the business with a very well gained reputation of great quality solutions, for diverse purposes like: accommodation, mining facilities, schools, hospitals, offices, housing, etc. Please check out the next slider for some basic details about the look of the current website.

Hits, visitors, challenges and achievements; Abel world

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:56:16 +0200

Visitors, my personal blog is more than one year now. During this time I managed to achieve a few things 🙂 and

Pic. 1 – Today’s visits per country.

some others not so well. As an ICT professional this was my first adventure with having my own blog. I have been in the field for many years. Mainly doing other types of works. Like network administration, developing software and websites, etc. Never before I have started my own web. Never tried to maintain a my own web to make it succeed.

before starting to explain the results fist let me tell you the objectives of creating the web. When I created my blog I wanted to:

Learn English by writing and being corrected by people.
Create sort of a logbook of some of the work I do.

So far I have half won half lost. Let me put the list of failures first.

My web is not a hit like Facebook. It would be good to have something like that and become a million-er. But it just did not happen. It was not one of my objectives and my subjects are not so general. I have not put enough time on this web. in general I did not manage.
I still have a lot of English to learn, and I think I am a bit dyslectic. I am serious! I write things and I think they are fine. Then review a few times. Everything is perfect. Give it to someone to read and he finds that I made a lot of mistakes like forgetting about letters or changing them. Let say I write “in” when I wanted to write “is”. About the English improvement, if you read my fist posts you will see for your self. For instance check out this one.
My website cost is payed from my own pocket, it does not pays it self yet. But soon it will.
I have not been able to really put all the time I wanted in to the site.

The good things:

Useful Notes as a solution to punctual problems

Fri, 08 Nov 2013 18:20:21 +0200

I tend to forget where I find the solution for my problem very often, so I will start recording some of the solutions that I find for my different problems, if any one find this list some how interesting or useful in the future please consider leaving a comment or suggest other useful information that you have found in internet:

Slider and gallery wp

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 09:34:37 +0200

OUT DATED POST

I needed a Slider and gallery of images using WordPress as it is my preferred development CMS because WordPress is very popular all over the world for several reasons. It’s easy to manage in beginner level, there is a lot of documentation and there is a huge community supporting new comers, but for more information you can check here or do your own research in Google.

Child Theme Wordpress

Sun, 04 Aug 2013 18:38:23 +0200

Well today I’m going to explain how to create a child theme in WordPress is kind of simple work, but some of us had to struggle to get it done when we started to do our first WordPress sites (by we you my understand ME), because the true is that is very easy now that I know.

Responsive child theme

Basically what you have to do is to go to /wp-content/themes/ create a folder with the name of the child theme (different from other themes you have) for instance “sosolar”. Inside this folder you can create any structure on a theme, but the only file required is “style.css”, then you only have to create a special content for this file.
The file is supposed to have inside the following:

Path links menu; Wordpress browsing

Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:39:46 +0200

I have used the theme Twenty Eleven a couple of times as the father theme for my web creations, and it works for me very well, but sometimes when the website grows to much with a lot of contents and several child pages; while users are browsing, they might get confused; due to the default absence of path links in most WordPress themes, sometimes happens after the user goes inside the menu and clicks on a few links they don’t know where are they, so a functionality that shoes the path to the page where you are is very useful sometimes.