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New Laptop Review Blog Launched

Its a busy week for new WordPress Blogs, but here is another blog laptopreview.me.uk (curiously on a me.uk domain) reviewing the latest laptops and notebooks with video hands on demo’s. At the moment the blog focuses on Acer Laptops including the very popular and compact Acer Aspire One Netbook A150-Ab Netbook which runs a user friendly version of Linux (XP can also be installed, but Linux is likely to be faster.

WHOIS Privacy for Domain Names Launched

Weycrest have introduced Whois Privacy for Domains Names. This is sometimes known as private domains or private registrations. One of the issues of registering your domain is that your personal data, address, email etc is stored in the WHOIS database for all to see.

This isn’t normally a problem, however some customers were concerned about identity theft issues. So now we are registering certain domains with privacy turned on by default, and customers can remove this if they wish. It is an ICANN requirement that your WHOIS lookup details are kept up to date. Our service provides you effectively with a private contact and email address and you are still the valid registrant for the domain unlike certain “secure” registration services.

We are currently offer this free, whereas the major registrars charge at least £4.99 + for the service, per year. WHOIS Privacy is only available on .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .tv domains.

New Online Backup Review Blog

Online Backup Review, is a new review site in WordPress blog form that specialises in the reviewing the latest online backup services such as Depositit, backup software and portable USB external hard drives which can be ordered from Amazon. Might sound a bit boring, but its easy to forget backing up your important work data, music itunes until its too late. Indeed the blog also features a video showing a hard drive in failure.

Model Rocket Books

Looking for a different Christmas Gift? Model Rocket Books is a new blog, devoted to, not unsurprisingly, model rocket books, model rockets, rocket kits and toys. It will also feature reviews of rocket kits and articles on the science behind small rockets. the site will include some of the best clips on YouTube featuring rocket launches. Check out model rocket books today!

Creating a Custom WordPress Page Template

Those with WordPress Hosting might fnd this little Tutorial invaluable. There are times when you want to create a blog page, that looks entirely different from the rest of the blog. This might be because you want to use WordPress to run your entire website (as increasing numbers of people are) but want the main, index or a “featured page” of your website to not reflect the typical blog appearance. The easy way to customize WordPress is to create a custom WordPress page Template and this is easy to do.

On one blog I had an ‘index’ or default page and wanted it to have a completely different look to the rest of the blog. I couldn’t think of an easy way to do this with WordPress but 10 minutes (OK 15) minutes later, I had the exact page I required working with the right header, sidebar and footer. Great!