[webarch-websites] Website - Q & A ??

Sun Nov 30 09:18:25 GMT 2014

The top navbar is very restricted. I don’t want to add things there. What if “news” becomes “blog”?

I find it acceptable to clutter the footer with all sorts of links. These guys have a clear header, while the footer is left luggage: http://www.cloudtp.com <http://www.cloudtp.com/>

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> On 28 Nov 2014, at 15:40, Jonathan <jonathan at webarch.net> wrote:
> 
> That's an interesting idea Nick, re that particular section (News) ... in fact one or two things like "Decarbonise your Website" (2012) could do with updates and feedback perhaps?
> 
> And Chris's more recent guidance on securing WordPress websites is - IMHO somewhat "hidden" - Readers have to click "Read more" on a small item headed "Brute force attacks on WordPress sites" ... and another link there takes ppl to a WordPress page, away from our excellent advice on the matter ...
> 
> Is there any merit in thinking about an additonal section? FAQs and current eco/tech/political issues?
> 
> As a customer/potential customer I'd not think to click on a company's "News" section much because if I did I'd expect to see things like AGM notices, mergers, big new contracts etc... routine stuff.
> 
> Just some thoughts ....
> Cheers
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> On 28/11/14 15:11, Nick Hardiman wrote:
>> Instead of publishing all at once as a FAQ section, you could feed the
>> https://webarch-dev.host1.webarch.net/news/ <https://webarch-dev.host1.webarch.net/news/> at the rate of one article
>> or QA each day.
>> 
>> That’s the kind of dynamic update that is SEO friendly.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 28 Nov 2014, at 15:05, Jonathan <jonathan at webarch.net <mailto:jonathan at webarch.net>
>>> <mailto:jonathan at webarch.net <mailto:jonathan at webarch.net>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Sorry I haven't contributed much to the website dicussion overall so
>>> far; busy time, busy life :) I'm trying today to get back to that and
>>> other things.
>>> 
>>> Suggestion: There is a document I've been 'building' by cut-and-paste
>>> from tech emails, edited a bit, of Q & As about Webarchitects service,
>>> blended with more general internet/hosting problems solved - could we
>>> use it on the website?
>>> 
>>> now runs to 60 .odt pages
>>> 
>>> Is maybe an FAQs section a good idea generally? - on the POSSE
>>> principle? Would it drive traffic in a useful way towards us?
>>> Or should we consider other options like a forum - with some of these
>>> posted and answered straightaway ("Clients questions answered") or
>>> Twiiter or whatever?
>>> 
>>> ?
>>> 
>>> Just a thought,
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jonathan
>>> 
>>> PS: Here below are a few random examples from pp31-31:
>>> in a few cases prices are mentioned but generaly not
>>> 
>>> ============================================================
>>> 
>>> Q: In my Wiki Is it possible to lose one of the words from the URL so
>>> it either have http://mywiki.co.uk/wiki/ <http://mywiki.co.uk/wiki/> or http://wiki.mywiki.co.uk/ <http://wiki.mywiki.co.uk/>
>>> because the double wiki at the front and end seems a bit much.
>>> 
>>> A: Yes we can do this (have on many other MediaWiki sites) even though
>>> there are dire warning why you shouldn't! See
>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL>
>>> Other useful things we can do: Save logo as favicon.ico:
>>> http://wiki.mywiki.co.uk/favicon.ico <http://wiki.mywiki.co.uk/favicon.ico>
>>> Set a Apple icon: http://wiki.mywiki.co.uk/apple-touch-icon.png <http://wiki.mywiki.co.uk/apple-touch-icon.png>
>>> And also set up a robots.txt: http://wiki.mywiki.co.uk/robots.txt <http://wiki.mywiki.co.uk/robots.txt>
>>> As suggested here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Robots.txt <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Robots.txt>
>>> 
>>> Q: We want to sync documents between our workers. We would like to be
>>> able to back up our documents (presumably with a script) and have some
>>> method of restoring documents when necessary. We have been past users
>>> of Dropbox but would like a more co-operative solution. Can you help?
>>> 
>>> A: We'd suggest an OwnCloud site: - https://owncloud.org/ <https://owncloud.org/> There are
>>> clients for all platforms and and we would be happy to host an
>>> OwnCloud site for you and to set it up. Take a look at the feature it
>>> has: https://owncloud.org/features/ <https://owncloud.org/features/>
>>> You would need a SSL cert on a sub-domain, for example the site could
>>> be at https://cloud.yourwebsite.coop/ <https://cloud.yourwebsite.coop/> We would need to check your
>>> hosting plan to see if it's big enough to cover this, in which case it
>>> would just be the cost of a cert and our time to do the install,
>>> perhaps 15 mins. If you need a lot of space for OwnCloud then we can
>>> add additional space based on the backup space prices here:
>>> https://www.webarch.net/backups <https://www.webarch.net/backups>
>>> 
>>> Q: We are thinking of a backup of our servers using a Synology NAS,
>>> can I sync to this as a fail safe?
>>> 
>>> A: Yes, in theory -- their devices run Linux so assuming you have shell
>>> access you could set up a cronjob to backup your data via FTP from
>>> Ecohost servers, however then your data would be going over the
>>> network unencrypted so it might make more sent to set you up on one of
>>> the Webarchitects servers and then you will have SFTP access and your
>>> data would be encrypted in transit.
>>> To set up a OwnCloud server on a Webarchitects server would cost:
>>> Database S - £60 https://www.webarch.net/shared-hosting#phpmysql <https://www.webarch.net/shared-hosting#phpmysql> or
>>> 100GB backup storage space - £85 https://www.webarch.net/backups <https://www.webarch.net/backups> plus
>>> SSL cert - £22.50 https://www.webarch.net/certs <https://www.webarch.net/certs> and 30 mins setup (it
>>> might only be 15 mins) £21 https://www.webarch.net/pricing <https://www.webarch.net/pricing> So, in
>>> total, £188.50.
>>> 
>>> Q: We'd like to set up an intranet and thinking of using a Wordpress
>>> based system. How much would it be to set up a new database on our
>>> hosting package with Wordpress installed under intranet.ourwebsite.net <http://intranet.ourwebsite.net/>
>>> <http://intranet.ourwebsite.net <http://intranet.ourwebsite.net/>>? Also how soon could this be done?
>>> 
>>> A: Database L package, say, comes with 3 databases.
>>> https://www.webarch.net/shared-hosting#phpmysql Also have you
>>> considered a SSL certificate for the intranet site? This would be an
>>> additional £22.50 p/a but I'd strongly suggest that this would make
>>> sense if you want to keep your internal communications private,
>>> pricing is explained here: https://www.webarch.net/certs#certs
>>> 
>>> Q: on the viability, sustainability of a Host 1 type server I would
>>> like to know how much bandwidth this service is taking up? Is this
>>> info available on Munin or in the git repository?
>>> 
>>> A: See:
>>> https://munin.webarch.net/munin/webarch.net/tern.webarch.net/index.html
>>> 
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