WordPress for Tourism and Travel Industry websites

Wordpress theme for cvbs and tourist boards

This WordPress theme (LifeStyle by Studiopress) is proven to be the best design for travel industry and tourism or city portal website. This design can also be used for a large travel agency or company with a large inventory of products or services.

It's built to list 4 topics with multiple listings or daily, weekly or monthly postings and there's a section at the top to feature special topics.

The video display is easy to update with new videos from Youtube. And can be a great marketing tool for retailers and hold visitor contests.

This theme is compatible with WordPress and is widget-ready. The Theme is customizable and provides an ideal solutions for cvbs and tourist boards who wish to build a city portal web site.

Please contact me with any questions about using this web design theme for your site.

There are several other theme designs for smaller companies or individually owned companies like travel agencies, real estate or a doctors office, that are easy to update and manage.

4 Ways to Backup your WordPress Site

Here are 4 ways to back up your WordPress (wp) website. Some are redundant and when you run into a problem you'll want to have several options to restore your pages.

From Inside of WordPress Tools

1. Export from the tools menu
This will let you export all posts or posts by authors in an .xml file. This will be exported as am xml file and check to be sure you received the whole file. Once downloaded count to 12, then look in an asii editor (like Homesite or Dreamweaver) for the complete closing tag </rss> . Sometimes the file does not get downloaded.

Use this before making small reversions, or to be used as a last resort for restoring a site.

2. wp-dbManager plugin,
Once installed go to your tools menu and click on backup. This plugin will back up the database and let you schedule automatic backups. Do this before changing versions. Or once a week ( or what ever).

From Outside of WordPress

1. From your ftp software (fileZilla or Core FTP Light , Free programs) create a new folder label it with a date example: Backup 100324.

Down load the wp-content folder and all the root files. This should be done before you start working on styles sheets or making any changes like themes or versions updates.

This will not copy your post or pages just additional stuff you add on: Themes, plugins, languages and etcs.

2. Back up your data base from the phpMyAdmin. Your best bet is to have your hosting company walk you through this process. It is pretty simple and painless, a redundancy of WP-DB-Backup, but worth the time if something goes wrong.

WordPress 2.7 is out

WordPress 2.7 is a complete rebuild. Not only on the inside but the outside too. 2.7 brings a lots of changes, the biggest one is a complete overhaul of the dashboard interface. Instead of having navigation elements on the top of the page, everything is now on the left side of the screen, similar to most Web mail services and Google’s home page.

Here is a quick look at some of the changes.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyVDsTAduiY

Password Manager

It was raining this morning and a great time to update and rearrange my passwords. It’s been some years since the password’s folder had some serious attention and some well deserved house cleaning.

Once the folder was cleaned up and rearranged, (down to 80+ passwords now) it was a simple process to sync the data into a RoboForm2Go (on a usb stick) with the Synchronize Passwords manager. This wasn’t much of a problem before but now it’s real simple.

Password manager software saver.

Forget your passwords?

Think it’s time to use a different password?

Do you access the same accounts at work and at home?

With all the passwords we use it’s easy to forget the easy ones like our Yahoo or Hotmail passords.

Here is a secure password manager & generator that will create and store your passwords.

Lost Password ?

Don’t think you´re the only one. The last survey says we are over whelmed with the amount of passwords we need to know at work and at home.

Over 15% of managers say they have over 15 passwords they need in their day-to-day business. Some keep them on notepads, spreadsheets or palm pc and pocket pc (not a safe place to keep passwords).

As Americans we are required to change our passwords less than the rest of the world, and I would expect that to pick up with the higher rate of security business web sites will be taking.

Browsers

RoboForm runs on the toolbar of over 30 different browsers including IE, Foxfire, Mozilla Suites, and the newer Netscape’s. When I use 2 different browsers on the same machine: I will access the same account and login codes from the different browsers and the same information will be added to the forms.

Other installs:

  • Palm pc and Pocket pc
  • USB device (RoboForm2Go) or stick and will run without installing on a laptop or desktop computer. No files or password information will be saved on the pc.
  • GoodSync synchronizes files between 2 computers and or a USB device.

Password Generator

Random password generator

This password generator creates hard to crack random
passwords.

  • Specify password length, types of characters, and special characters.
  • Measures the strength of the password.
  • Best way to create random passwords.

Password Security

Defeats Keyloggers

When RoboForm enters the password into form fields, it does not type them through the keyboard, so if a keylogger is on the system, there are no key-clicks to record.

Best anti-phishing defense

As you know there are many emails received daily asking for account information.

RoboForm helps increase your online security by storing the URL with login information and will only use the right information on the right web site. This way you can not log into a fake site using this password manager.

If you start entering private information into a unknown form a popup warning will come up.

Password Encryption

RoboForm increases online security by protecting all identities and passwords by making them inaccessible to unauthorized users and unreadable by hackers even if they are stolen because of the strong encryption.

Password Manager Software

  • Automatically add personal information like name & address information.
  • Backup & restore and print options are available.

Password Manager

RoboForm is given a best rating for Password manager software by PC Magazine and is the editors choice at download.com.

Don’t lose your Yahoo or Hotmail password again.
Create new secure passwords with the password generator anytime.

Protect
your passwords and identity.

Website Redesign for wp

I've decided to take my site design in a new direction. The design is striped down to almost the bare essentials. And yes, it looks pretty bland.

The idea is to, every month or so take each part of the site redesign it and document how and why.

With the help of a white board & forward thinking and not too many re-dos the site should be completed by the end of the year.

Website Strategy:

Here are some of the goals of the redesign.

  • Have the brand standout and be memorable
  • Reflect who I be
  • Easy constructs
  • Increase viewers and build a email and rss feed base
  • Take advantage of Web 2.0 services

If you have any design suggestions or ideas please leave them below.

Managing Communications with Google Voice

Having trouble managing home cell and business phones? And what about managing different answering machines and services.

Some days at work I'm on the phone 70 plus % of the day. So any way I can combine services, save time and make it easier, I'll do it.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cag48VWnaKI

Google Voice(GV) gives me the ability to give out 1 phone number and direct individual calls to specific phones, answering service and can even direct apam calls to a number out of service recording.

Just down loaded and installed the Google Voice(GV) app on a gPhone so out going calls use the the GV number and those receiving the call see the GV number.

All the Google Voice videos

Geeks on a Cruise

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsaG0w5L3KY

Yes, even geeks need to take a break sometimes.

Weight Loss Chart

Google 15

The google 15 is a widget that works inside of iGoogle or Google home page.

This is a great little widget that encourages you to get on the scale daily and will calculate a moving average from your daily weight. The average gives you a better idea of your weight trend by smoothing most of the day to day swings.

Then there are those days when the scales don't tip in your direction. The average gives you a better idea the direction your going, so you know when you are losing weight or trying to lose weight.

The Google 15 was created by Brian W. Fitzpatrick, a Google software engineer. Brian calls the Google 15, after the weight usually gain after starting Google jobs and being all the free food you can eat. I guess it's something like the first year of college.

Here is my example of the Google 15 in action. You can easily add this widget to your iGoogle home page by clicking on add more stuff and searching for Google 15.

Maria Sharapova returning serve

Is that a bunny hop?

What a powerful backhand and forehand!

Maria Sharapova at Amelia Island Bausch & Lomb Tennis Championship.

Welcome

Glad you came by and welcome to JackKennard.com. This site is mostly about what’s going on in my life and my work  online .