The start of new-year must be very interesting for all you people but I would like to give all the Word Press users an important advice. There has been a lot of problems with Word Press users that incase of crash of the application the whole content of your website is lost as there is no proper back up for these things. So this New Year I want all the Word Press users make sure that they don’t lose any of their data.

The first thing you need to do is to create the back up of your database from the date where you have published/posted the most important contents or documents. So you might be thinking how to create a solution for this as word press doesn’t have this feature inbuilt with it.

So now all u people are lucky as there is a word press plugin for these as a solution for solving this problem. The name of the plugin is the WordPress Database Backup Plugin. You can download this plugin using this link. In this you can tell the word press when to back up and to back up from where to where and what all things to be done.

There are two other folders you want to backup. The first is your theme folder to make sure you have a backup copy of any customizations you may have made. The second is your uploads directory so that, if you need to change hosts or if things get deleted, you have copies of all the images. This way, your blog doesn’t have a bunch of broken files.

You need to be able to automate an FTP job. If you’re a skilled programmer, there are lots of ways to skin this cat. If your programming lacks some mojo, there are options: for Windows, use Syncback SE; for Mac, use AASync. Set up a scheduled job (one for each folder) and create a copy on your hard drive. I like to use my file server instead of my desktop so I don’t have to worry about leaving it on.

Lastly, to bring things full circle, if you have lots of data or critical data, it’s important to have an offsite backup. I move all of my files to my file server every night. I have Carbonite running on that server so everything has an offsite backup. Lastly, just to make sure things are functioning, set a once a moth reminder for yourself to check that your backups are running. Sometimes things break and the time to know about it is before the crisis. A once-a-month check is easy enough to do and give you a lot more peace of mind.

Do you think that you do need to make accessible websites simply because you do not target that kind of audience? Well you definitely need reality check. I’m not going to present statistics on how many physically challenged people access the Internet because again, some among you would say, “We don’t target ‘that’ kind of audience.” I’ll just list some reasons why it is important to have accessible websites and how not having an accessible website can harm your business.
The search engine prefers the accessible websites over the inaccessible websites.

There is a logical reasoning behind this. The search engine would trace your website just as a visually impaired would read it. The more the accessible website you create more the search engines will find it easy in tracking your websites and getting you listed in the search engine results. Since you use right tags at right paces for making your website accessible search engine spiders exactly knows where to find what.

Accessible websites are accessible to a wide range of devices.

Computers and laptops are not the only devices which can access your websites. There are many other handheld devices which can access the internet and website. If your websites cannot be accessed by such devices then you are reasonably losing out a number of visitors for your websites.

Accessible websites are accessible to people using old software and slower Internet Connections.

The broadband connections are getting penetrated into many houses, but still there are many people using dial up connection in their windows 98 pc. . And they are not poor — they use the old technologies just because they don’t feel like upgrading. By creating highly inaccessible websites you are excluding a market range that can do millions of dollars of business with me. So whenever you garnish your web pages with the latest bells and whistles, just make sure your website functions on older technologies too.

An accessible websites increases the strength of your brand.

Whether you realize it or not, an average user, whether she is physically challenged or not, appreciates the fact that you are in sync with the times and not an old fashioned organization. Not having an accessible website is an old-fashioned attitude. In accessible website means more than your users, you care about how your website looks.

What’s the use of having a snazzy website if a big part of the population cannot access it?

It is not mandatory that you should have an accessible website, and a recent survey predicted that 98% of the most important websites the world over don’t provide even minimum levels of accessibility. So it’s up to you whether you want to have an accessible website or not. The decision has to come from within you.