LEARN HOW TO BUILD A STANDARD WEBSITE WITHIN TWO HOURS WITH THIS EBOOK

the book "A-Z of web design" is meant for those who are interested in web design as a profession, website owners who are interested in improving their website management skills, online marketers who are in need of a website to sell their products, those who are interested in blogging, small business owners who are interested in building a website for their business and anybody that is interested in building a website or getting the knowledge of webdesign

the book "A-Z of web design" contains instruction on how to set up your website or blog from start to finish even if you are not a tech person you will be able to use this ebook to build your website.
it contains information of some of the best host service providers, how to choose a good domain name, how to host your website on your host space and how to design and customize your website to your taste.


HOW TO ORDER YOUR COPY OF THIS EBOOK
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make your payment to this account:
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After payment send the name you wrote on your deposit slip, your deposit slip number and your active email address to this number:  08100661236.
i will send the ebook to you via email within 6hours of confirmed payment.
do not miss this opportunity. this ebook is a product of mylastkobo.com

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Cheap monthly data subscription for smartphones( suggested products)

The new Oldrafikki data subscription.

You can now subscribe directly from your mobile phone and pay securely with your ATM CARD (MasterCard, Verve, Maestro and Visa) using this easy steps:

Step 1. create a simple customer account with www.clubkash.com/Oldrafikki 

Step 2.Login to your new account with your phone number( your phone number is your username) and password.

Step 3. Once logged in you can choose to purchase any of the listed data plan. Just click on Buy now.

You will then be shown the option of choosing any payment option of your choice. 

FAQ's on the cheap data subscription plan.. 1. Can I use it on all devices including iPhones and modems for laptops?

     Answer: yes you can use this data for your iPhones, blackberry, modems,laptops and android devices. 

2. Can I check my data account balance once subscribed?

     Answer: yes you can do that by simply dialling *461*7# for MTN subscribers and *229*9# for our Etisalat subscribers.

3. Do I have to tweak or root my android device to use this dataplan? 

     Answer: No. This is not a cheat, so you do not have to tweak or run any reconfiguration of your phone to use this data subscription plan.

4.how long will my data last? 

     Answer:Your data subscription will last for 30 days and will be rolled over if you re-subscribe before it expires. 

( Note: we operate a 500 bit encryption security payment system that guarantee you a secured transaction with us. )

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Installing a new wordpress template on your wordpress site (for techpreneurs).

Installing a wordpress template:
 installing a wordpress template is easier than it is supposed to be,
of course those of you familiar with coding web pages with HTML and CSS would agree with me on this one.
 Installing a wordpress theme is so simple that you can try multiple wordpress theme on your site before choosing your preferable template,
 and the good thing is that all the wordpress template that you may need for building the site
 of your dreams are either free or goes for a little chicken change. now let get you to install a new wordpress template on your site.

 Visit the admin panel(dashboard)locate themes( under appearance) click on it and it will
 take you to a page with a list of your already installed themes and the option of adding new themes,
to install a new theme on your wordpress site click on the add new button at the upper left part of the page.

 It will take you to another page where you will find a lot of free but yet beautiful and professional wordpress templates
that you can use for your wordpress site, you can either choose to install them online or to download and upload later,
after clicking on install the installation wizard will take some time to load after which it will show you something like this

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how to create multiple blog sections on a single wordpress installation with categories(for techpreneurs)

using wordpress categories you can create multiple blogs on your wordpress blog, this would help you arrange your blog into different sections e.g for a news blog you can have a section for international news,local news or entertainment news. Now lets get right to showing you how to perform this wonderful wordpress trick brought to you exclusively by mylastkobo.com.

Open your admin panel(dashboard), go the categories page under posts,and create new categories for each new sections of your blog that you want to create.
After creating this categories, visit your admin dashboard and go to Menus—under appearance, when you get to menu you will see something like this(image 0.45)


1.    This area assists you in choosing the previously created menu  that you wish to work with, it also help you with the creation of a new menu.
2.    All the pages on your site are listed here(every page is added to your site menu automatically after creation)
3.    Wordpress presents you with the option of adding an internal or external page link to your menu.
4.    This contains a listing of all the categories on your site, as we move on in this part of the wordpress customization tutorial on categories i will show you what to do with the links on this list.
5.    You can toggle between different menu option that is if you have multiple menu on your site.
6.    This part contain a tabbed list of links to pages and categories already on your site menu.

To create sections on your website you will need to make some changes to your site menu, if you have been able to create new categories and if you have gotten to a page similar to the one shown in the image above then you are on the right track.
Now move to the category tab by the left side of the menus page. you will see a list of all the categories you have created, now click on any one of those categories that you want to feature on your sites frontpage menu. Drag the clicked category to the part labelled number 6 on the image and place it in a suitable position in your hierarchy of links. You could either place it squarely under another link to make it a secondary(child) category or just place it on its own to make it a primary(parent) category.
 

The above image is showing a list of categories according to their hierarchy from.
1a and b. These are parent categories: parent categories have child categories under them that often slide out when you hover above them with the pointer.
2. this is a child category under “our administrator in the image above”.
3. this is a child’s child category, i.e it would appear under a child’s category
Note:  a child category would normally drop down or slide out from a parent category. Depends on what template you are using.


Click on save menu to register the changes you have just made before leaving the menu page to preview your frontpage menu to see your changes.
 Now your site have different blog sections, you can blog on different topics and issues on various sections, by adding them to the related category.
When using categories ensure you clearly define the description of the category as this greatly affect the performance of that category and its contents on search engines.

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How to buy Data Plans/Airtime Recharge Cards at Cheap rates in Nigeria(suggested services)

We have always posted working internet cheats on this site. Free browsing cheats have always helped internet users to browse for free.
To see working internet cheats and cheap data plans, go here ,but cheats will not always be available and we will need a plan to fall back on
Data plans and internet subscription are quite expensive in Nigeria. For example MTN sells 750 mb for 2000 naira which is quite expensive.
The best option for people using the internet will be to buy data from data bundle resellers of which the most reliable of them all is OLDRAFIKKI DATA BUNDLES.
I am going to show you how to buy data plans at

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List of Top HTML tags that every blogger should know about.(for techpreneurs)

List of Top HTML tags that every blogger should know about.

 1.Meta tags. This tag should be the first thing you type on your post content field before writing      your post as this tags tells a search engine bot about the content of your post e.g
the meta description tag for this article should look like this:

<head>
<meta name=”description” content=”list of top html tags for bloggers”>
<meta name=”keyword” content=”html, blogging, seo, post formatting, editing posts,”>
<meta name=”author” content=”steve azuka”>
</head>
This way when a search engine sees the post it will find it easy to understand the content of my post and what it is all about. and with this you can also lay authorship claim on your unique content.

2.Bold/strong.  This is a basic way of emphasizing and emboldening your text and making it thicker than other text e.g a sub heading(if you do not want to use the <header> tag)  a text could be made emboldened by lacing it with this tag
<b> this text is bold</b>
or
<strong>this text is bold</strong>

3.links.

  (i) linking text:  there are two ways of adding a text link to a post:
                        1: just plainly writing the URL(uniform resource locator) e.g:  http://www.mylastkobo.com ( some sites demand that you use the href element to place any link)
                       Or
                        2: embedding it in a text: using the <a> (anchor ) tag and href element you can carefully embed your link inside a text < a href=http://www.mylastkobo.com></a>


(ii) linking an image: placing a link inside an image is not a very tricky thing to learn, you still have to use the <a> tag and href element but this time we will also be using the <img> tag and src element:
The image for this example is located here so we will have to copy it cus we will be needing it to complete the process.

<a href=http://www.mylastkobo.com> <img src=http://our image is located here.yipee /></a>.

Note: when linking people to other site ensure you put in target as blank, so that a new tab will be opened authomatically on their browser.

4.image. <img> as a blogger you will soon get used to typing and seeing this very  often. It is used for placing an image in a post either from your site or another site it is used alongside the element “src”
<img src=http://this is my image’s url.com/bighead.jpg width=” 550” height”400” border=”2px” /> the image tag is described as an empty tag in html so it does not need a closing tag but rather it closes itself.
The width and height element is used for deciding the dimension of the image.


6.blockquote. this is used for outputting a text as a quote it uses the HTML <blockquote> tag to output your text as quotes:
<blockquote> i want this text to be quoted because quoting is cool and i like it.</blockquote>

7.Underline. you use this HTMl tag to underine a text in a post;
<ul> i want this cool text to have a nice line under it</ul>

8.break. for those coding without a wordprocessor based text editor you will understand the need for this HTML feature <br /> it help you to break from one line to start writing in the other line it is an empty tag and it contain its ending slash inside the first tag.

9.italic.  you use the <i> tag to turn a text into the italic font style. This is usually used when you want to point a word out in a sentence. <i> italic is cool it makes the word wavy like elephant grass</i>

10. lists. The list tag is used to make a simple list of texts in a post. You will find that there are different ways of using the list tag, either by using the ordered list tag<ol>this output your list with numbers</ol> or by using the unordered list tag<ul> this outputs your list with bullets</li> you may also use the definition list<dl></dl> for making a list of definations like in a dictionary.
Using lists.

-Ordered lists:  <p>list of things i will buy</p>
     <ol>
            <li> tomato 50 naira</li>
            <li> bread 100 naira
<ul><li> agege bread</li>
        <li> tuntun bread</li><ul></li>
<li>macaroni 250 naira</li>
<li> bournvita 500 naira</li>
            <li>beans 300 naira</li></ol>

 -Unordered lists: <p> list of noise makers</p>
<ul>
<li>mayowa otularibo</li>
<li>Vincent ogunaiye</li>
<li>tomson otulei</li></ul>

This article was written for www.mylastkobo.com by the author steve azuka it is protected by copyright laws  to reuse this article you must abide by the authors term of retaining this copyright note along with the article or risk having your site or institution sued and reported to the appropriate authorities.

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Protect your online Business TRANSACTIONS from hackers and fraud with AVAST SAFE ZONE

 The avast! SafeZone is an additional security feature in avast! Pro Antivirus, avast! Internet Security and avast! Premier, which allows you to browse the web in a private, secure environment, invisible to the rest of your system. For example, if you do your banking or shopping online, or other security-sensitive transactions, you can be sure that your personal data cannot be monitored by spyware or
key-logging software.

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How to create pages on your wordpress site.(techpreneurs)

 How to create pages on your wordpress site.

how to create a page on wordpress:   Now we are going to learn how to create a page on wordpress. We are going to create an about us page. a page where your users can get to know about your site and the services you render. An about us page is one of the most important page in any site because it is the first stop for visitors who are interested in knowing what your website is all about. to create an about us page visit your admin dashboard click on the label “pages”

[image 1]
















then locate the add new button it is usually located at the top left corner of the page, click on it.

[image 2]

In the new window write the name of the new page you want to create in the field written enter title here 1
Write the content of the page in the bigger text box 2 and specify if the page is going to be a parent page 3 or a child page, you can go further down the window to specify a featured image(optional) for the page, then click on publish 4 to save all what you have just done.

[image 3]

Note: a parent page is different from a child page in the sense that, a parent page may have up to 5 “chilld pages” under it, take for example a page like “international news” for a news website can have child pages like “Africa, Asia, America, Europe and Australia”

this article was first written here. how to create a page on your wordpress site by steve azuka email= stevezuks@gmail.com for mylastkobo.com

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Factors to consider when choosing a host service provider.(techpreneurs)

Factors to consider when choosing a host service provider.

To be on the safer side when making a choice of where to host your website it is advisable to look for these basic requirements and features before going ahead  to purchase an hosting plan.

1. Cost

You get what you pay for! The hosting for your website is the foundation of your website and it goes a long way to determine the success or failure of your website even before hosting the choice of a bad host service could cripple a good web design project so. So before calculating the cost, try to calculate the value. You need to invest in good hosting. The cost of hosting is something that should be calculated into your entire website budget. Host service providers that offer “cheap” and “unlimited” accounts should be approached with caution. Because most of them do not last long in the business and when they pack up so also will your website.

Look to see what you are getting with the cheap host and what features are included in the cost. Do they charge for additional domains, support, backups, etc.. Call them. Ask questions. Tell them what you envision your site’s needs to be. Just don’t take it for granted that they take your site as seriously as you do.

2.  Compatibility

Take a moment to understand the technologies that are being used within your website. For example if you are building a WordPress site, your hosting provider should be familiar and compatible with WordPress(the same goes for every other CMS you may choose to use). Find out if it is a Linux or Windows based server. Also find out if they are running the most current version of PHP and databases such as MySQL.



3.TECH SUPPORT

One of the most important requirements that you should consider before choosing a host company is its tech support, how soon do they respond and how helpful are their response.

In my own opinion, this is most important issue to consider. When a site, for some unknown reason, goes down, can I call up and get a real, live person(not a computer program or an answering machine) on the phone? And, more than that, can they find out what’s wrong and fix it, or at least tell me what I need to do to get my site back online?

It is very dangerous and uncomfortable to host with a host company that does not have an effective and live tech support. when your site is down?

You are supposed to be able to reach your host company’s tech support or customer service within 30minutes and book your complaint.

Before purchasing any hosting plan, you are supposed to be able to reach the customer service of your host service provider to inquire about the pricing and billing procedure.



4.ADDED INCENTIVES(optional)  area of consideration comes down to the following question – What makes this hosting company special? What extra incentive do they provide to make hosting your site with them just a touch more attractive? Whether it’s multiple data centers, energy-saving practices, or additional features such as regular data backups or free domain privacy, hosting companies often offer more than just servers. If you see one that offers something you need or find important, that can be a good indicator that you should look into using that company.

I know some host service providers that give free custom emails and free domains.

5.Customers Reviews / Satisfaction / Reputation

This is one of those factors that you’ll have to get a little creative to get the real story on. Do a Google Blog search for a particular hosting company, or look them up on Twitter – whatever you have to do to see what their current (or former) customers are saying about them. Are they easy to contact for support? What’s the average time it takes to respond to a ticket? When they find a problem with a site, what’s their course of action?

This is one of the great things about social media – ask a question about a company, and you’re more likely than not to get a few answers.

6.Control Panel / User Interface

Even if you’re new to web design, there are some things like installing WordPress, setting up email, setting up FTP accounts  that you should be able to do without calling your hosting company’s support line. Does the provider use cPanel or Plesk to make updates and modifications easier, or do they use some clunky interface that no one can figure out? You’ll most likely be the one working with it, so if you can’t figure it out, then that’s going to be a problem.

7.Scalability / Room to Grow

Finally, an important thing to consider about your hosting provider (and the plan you choose) is whether or not they fit into your plans for the future. In other words, what you consider adequate hosting now might not meet your needs two years from now, once you start selling your products online and getting some good traffics to your site.

Any web-based enterprise should have its eye on growth, so if a hosting company might have difficulty accommodating that growth it could pose an issue. Will they be able to easily upgrade your account? Transferring from one host to another takes valuable time and effort which could be avoided if the company can scale their solutions for growth. As with all these factors, do some research, get some opinions, and make an informed decision.

8.Storage and Bandwidth
Unlimited bandwidth is a usual advertisement slogan of most host service. Many hosting providers that claim to offer unlimited bandwidth have restrictions outlined in the “fine print.”

Make sure you read the terms of service carefully to understand exactly what you are purchasing. Make sure the allotted space that comes with your purchased plan would be enough to accommodate your sites programs.

Unlimited bandwidth is a myth. Many hosting providers that claim to offer unlimited bandwidth have restrictions outlined in the “fine print.” Read the terms of service carefully to understand exactly what you are purchasing. Reputable hosting companies will often outline the costs for going over your allotted bandwidth and storage.



9.Uptime and downtime

Before choosing a web host company to use you must make sure it provides up to 99% uptime in reality and not just by its claim, search for complaints and issues being raised by its customers with google. Ask their customer support person to verify some of this complaints, ensure that you are guaranteed of your sites 99% uptime before going ahead to purchase a plan with any hosting company.



10. Quick Install(newbies)
For newbies it is always better to choose a web hosting platform that provides its customers with a very easy to operate hosting structure take for example a newbie with no knowledge on how the to upload and install wordpress on his hosting account might find it easy to use the quick install option provided by some host service providers e.g Godaddy and hostgator that provides users with a quick install option for some CMS like wordpress, drupal, joomla, woocommerce and phpbb right from the Cpanel, without having to go through the ardious process of first downloading the wordpress installer package and uploading it to your hosting account  after which you will have to create a mysql user.  So i think it would be easier for newbie who are “non tech inclined” to look for host service providers provide something like that.

Note: mylastkobo.com is not recommending any host provider listed in this article

This article was written for www.mylastkobo.com here. feel free to re-use it but please retain this ownership statement as credit to the author steve azuka @ mylastkobo.com

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Connecting your filezila FTP to a remote server(techpreneurs)

 
Although most web host(e.g godaddy,hostgator,sitegrounds) now supports an automatic direct online installation of wordpress into your host server through your Cpanel.
  there are still very many host service provider that will require you to download and upload your wordpress installation files to your host server and in this case it is recommended that you use an FTP client to upload this file and to do any future direct upload into your host server(e.g your sitemap file) this tutorial will show you how to connect an FTP client to your host server and make changes to files in your host directory.

download filezilla ftp client here

install the executable file you downloaded from the download link above. the file is supposed to look like this







[fig 1]

after installing the filezilla open it and you are supposed to see something like this:

[fig 2]

put in your accurate details where applicable.

Enter the hostname into the quickconnect bar's Host: field(1), the username into the Username: field(2) as well as the password into the Password: field(3). You may leave the Port: field empty unless your login information specifies a certain port to use. Now click on Quickconnect.


Note: If your login information specifies a protocol like SFTP or FTPS, enter the hostname as follows: sftp://yourhostname or ftps://yourhostname respectively.


FileZilla will now try to connect to the server. If all works well, you will notice that the right "column" switched from Not connected to any server to displaying a list of files and directories.

Navigating the Filezilla windows.
The next step is to get familiar with FileZilla's window layout.

[fig 3]

Here is a quick introduction: Below the toolbar (1) and quick connect bar (2), the message log (3) displays transfer and connection related messages. Below, you can find the file listings. The left column (local pane, 4) displays the local files and directories, i.e. the stuff on the PC you're using FileZilla on. The right column (server pane, 5) displays the files and directories on the server you are connected to. Both columns have a directory tree at the top and a detailed listing of the currently selected directory's contents at the bottom. You can easily navigate either of the trees and lists by clicking around like in any other file manager. At the bottom of the window, the transfer queue (6) lists the to-be-transferred and already transferred files.

Transferring files

 -uploading files.

First - in the local pane(the part labeled 4 in fig 3) - bring the directory into view which contains data to be uploaded (e.g. index.html and images/). Now, navigate to the desired target directory on the server (using the server pane's file listings). To upload the data, select the respective files/directories and drag them from the local(the part labeled 4 in fig 3) to the remote pane(the part labeled 5 in fig 3). You will notice that the files will be added to the transfer queue at the bottom of the window(the part labeled 6 in fig 3) and soon thereafter get removed again - since they were (hopefully, if nothing went wrong) just uploaded to the server. The uploaded files and directories should now be displayed in the server content listing at the right side of the window(the part labeled 5 in fig 3).


Note: If you don't like using drag-and-drop, you can also right click on files/directories (in the lower local pane) and select Upload to upload them - or simply double-click a file entry (this does not work for directories).

Note (advanced): If you enable filtering and upload a complete directory, only the not-filtered-out files and directories inside this directory will be transferred.

-Downloading

Downloading files, or complete directories, works essentially the same way as uploading - you just drag the files/directories from the remote pane(the part labeled 5 in fig 2) to the local pane(the part labeled 4 in fig 2) this time, instead of the other way round.

Note: In case you (accidentally) try to overwrite a file during upload or download, FileZilla will by default display a dialog asking what to do (overwrite, rename, skip...)

Using the site manager

Now that you are confident in transferring files (if not, practice a little bit), you might want to add the server information to the site manager to make it easy to reconnect to this server. To do this, select Copy current connection to Site Manager... in the File menu. The site manager will be opened and a new entry will be created with all the important information already filled in. You will notice that the entry's name is selected and highlighted - you can enter some descriptive name so you will later on find your server again (enter something like domain.com FTP server for example - you can rename it later if you wish).    Now close the dialog by clicking on OK.

The next time you want to connect to this server, you can simply select it in the site manager and click Connect.
this same process can be used to upload your wordpress installation files to your host server.

note: this post was posted as an aside for web design newbie's using the www.mylastkobo.com web design tutor ebook.

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