Introduction
A few small simple hints for Newbies and also for those who are not as new as Newbies go.
Many times I have seem New members (newbies) mention in their profile that they have either hardly any knowledge on the use of computers or very little knowledge. Which is fine that why trainings are for to help our fellow family members here in Wealthy Affiliate.
For some they may be comfortable using social media sites but when it comes to using a program in this case MS Word it becomes a different story.
Many people may not know their way around the various programs installed on their computer, perhaps they have never had a need to use it until now.
So here is one of possible other lessons they will be beneficial as to work on your Website you need to create content.
To create content you need a file, this may have a different name.
Within WordPress these are called Pages, Posts/Blogs.
When content is done they need to be arranged within the website in an orderly fashion.
I need my menu
No not that one! The one in WordPress.
Your pages are normally sorted underneath the menu.
When you go to appearance then menu and mostly you will be using a drop down format.
While the pages/blogs would normally be formatted under a different menu called Categories. On some themes pages/blogs automatically get slotted in the this area.
Back to Word
So in Word the content you would create outside WordPress would fall under the term File and this in turn in formatted to fall under the menu heading called a Folder with a specific name
This is what we will be dealing here with the folders and files that you will create you content on using MS Word.
This training is intended for the newbies who aren't not too familiar with the use of word as such.
Note:
Although this training is using MS Word, the other ones you know the what are they called? Oh yes Mac users can still go through the basic idea patterns when creating folders, files etc.I did say basic did I ?
There may be many other techniques and shortcuts when dealing with Word however this is not an Advanced session merely a basic version to help our fellow family members get their heads around this so they can start to continue to go forward with some ease.
To others with experience this may be old hat to your but remember for others this is new ground.
The MS Word version based on this training is using Microsoft Version 2010 for your reference.
So let's start with the following:
Two Goldern Rules when creating folders, files and content.
Rule 1: Save your work.
Rule 2: Save your work regularly
Emergency hidden rule: Did you remember to save your work?
So lets get the ball rolling and first learn how to create a Folder and File first.
Remember to add content you need to open a file, to store you file correctly, you need to create a folder.
This is what we will be doing:
- The Preparation Stage 1 (creating Folders)
- Secondly Preparation Stage 2 (creating a file).
- Using spell Check
Besides you need to save the work somewhere so why not have what you need first to save time later.
On the next page we will go through the method of creating your folder first.
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Past experiences quickly make you remember to save.
Take care have a wonderful weekend and continue to go forward each and every day.
Andre
Take care be well have a wonderful weekend that's coming up
Andre
If you have a opened file that already is in your drive whenever you wish to save you just go to click file then click save when the second window opens up.
If this is a new file that has never been saved before then you still go to File and you can either click save or save as.
The computer will recognize it has never been saved before and will open another window and prompt you to create a name for that file which will be below and before you click save you need to click the folder you wish that file to be in.
This part is explained in Preparation 2 on create a file.
The best thing to do is just get in the habit of saving your work that's why I said maybe every 2-3 paragraphs then click file then save.
Hope that answers your question Neil
Have a great day my hours are dwelling soon.
Take care be well.
Andre
Hadn't thought about people needing help creating files. See, that's why you're the BIG bro. :-) What a sweetie.
I knew the computer would normally do auto save but didn't know at the time that this can also turned off. I was using some elses computer at the time and assumed that it was being saved. That is why I don't rely on any auto saves they are normal set for 10 mins as standard but even ten min can be far too long when dealing with large spreadsheets.
Thanks sis xox back
Take care
With the downloads this will depend on what are the downloads
Are they all related to the one website?
Are they all images?
Are the all text?
Are they a mixture?
Are they both business and private or personal?
Once you answer that to yourself you can then organize what folders may be require to create and how many.
Personally i keep all private and family matters separate from business matters i guess that the old management part of me.
What I do is keep all business related matters on a separate drive.that why all personal stuff are separated and can't be mixed. part of your other question re backup is I have a couple of external hard drives where each fortnight or so I back up my work on the external drive. that way should my computer crash I have the back up away from the computer. I do the same for many of my important family matters as well.again on a separate hard drive.
I still keep them on my computer for easier access but when updated is required I back it up more often. I guess that the old accountant and management habits they have stayed with me. I am glad for that.
Back to the folders
I have a separate main folder called Wealthy Affiliate within this folder are several sub folders each with a separate website name to it.
Any websites not relating to WA would be done and attached to another main Folder under that particular name in the same fashion.
The main aspect is to keep organized to minimize issues later.
Now back to backups:
Word has been explained in above training so no need to go there.
If you are using the WordPress within WA know that backups can be done within WordPress here once you work has been created or adjusted you can export from WordPress and have it downloaded to your computer. here you can either save it to a separate folder maybe called WordPress backups and each time you do an export this could go to the same main folder called WordPress backups no need to create a file for that because you download is basally your file each with different details which you can also change to make it easier to remember what it means.
You could also save it to an external hard drive as mentioned above.
There is also the ability to import the work back to WordPress
This is all explain in Kyle's training session related to Exporting from WordPress
This is the link
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/how-to-back-up-your-wordpress-site-using-tools-export
As for how often for the backups same rules can apply
Rule 1: Save your work.
Rule 2: Save your work regularly
Emergency hidden rule: Did you remember to save your work?
Also another part with WordPress is it is a good idea to do a backup before any major changed you may be doing again this is explained in the session mentioned by Kyle above
As for Drop box i only use this for private issues with family and friends I have no need for this with business along with Cloud services.
That main part is to be organized if you need to create 20 folders to cover your400 downloads so be it. if you only need 5 folders then that's what is required.
Hope that has covered you questions
Take care and good night form me its getting late I need sleep.
Andre
Many of my downloads are free books, websites, etc and sundry bonuses (and shinny objects). So I guess I could organize them into folders. I also have quite a few folders with my e-mail account where I store important e-mails and some personal stuff (useful if travelling) I might get hacked but I usually leave some numbers out
Thanks for you advice.
Some will need one part others may fine something else that is useful. Even within another comment.
Good to see that you can indeed arranged and organize yourself with the different sections. As you said you guess that you could organize them into folders. Organize being the main focal point.
All that is need now is to keep going forward with the website and continue to create content.
Wishing you well
Enjoy your weekend.
