I’ve been quite a few problems with the original template I was using for this blog in particular for those users of Internet Explorer which form the majority of my readership. Users of Firefox (which I am one) have been able to see my page in the format that I have been intending on. Anyway, as it affected my readership quite severely, I have found another template and so far, this one seems to be working fine.

I have created a new logo to go with it all but otherwise, everything is the same as before. I am still getting some formatting issues when the site is viewed with Internet Explorer but users of other browsers shouldn’t have any problems..  I have tested it with Firefox, Safari and even the new Chrome browser from Google.

The readers are what keeps this blog alive so please let me know if you have any problems with the blog and any comments on how to improve etc.

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Hi all,

Today, in the office, I thought I would upgrade the blog to the latest Wordpress version. The latest version is 2.3.1 and I was thinking to myself whether it was worth the risk of the blog going down. The new release has a heap of bug fixes and things to make your blog more compliant.

Anyway, it’s the last working day until the New Year for me anyway… it’s quiet so why not. I read the Wordpress documentation, as always there’s the quick 3 step guide which can be found here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress

I like the easy guides so I followed it. As a precaution, I ftp’d the whole site off to a machine on my C drive and then downloaded the new version.

I then copied over the files from the ZIP archive over to my FTP site and overwrote all files… and that was it!!

When I fired up the website again, there was some database errors and my first thought was “what have you done??”

However, if you go into the admin pages.. before you can go any further there’s a screen which says that you need to update the database. You click the button and off you go!!! It was all done.. the website has now been upgraded and working perfectly.. I can’t believe how easy it was!!

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