Hi everyone,

We always keep nice and busy improving the Input Youth website so here’s a quick list of some of the the job-guides that have been added over the last couple of weeks:

• Community Nursery Nurse
• British Sign Language Interpreter
• Emergency Care Assistant
• Maternity Support Worker
• Nursery Manager
• Community Matron
• Accommodation Warden
• Social Work Assistent
• Family Support Worker

In case you missed the earlier post, you can use the site wide search box at the top of the page to search this blog and the main Input Youth website. So no matter what you search for, you will get a result that includes information from the whole site!

Chris, Web Designer at Input Youth

Today the Blog was off line for several hours due to another nasty hacking attempt.

The WordPress platform has now been reinstalled, together with a backup from a few days ago.

The posts are all clean of the SQL insertions and the blogs security has been tightened up somewhat. Lets hope these hacker slime-balls now stay away and keep our users free of adds for drugs and other stuff.

Chris, Web Designer at Input Youth

The blog has been unavailable for a couple of days because of a WordPress table corruption. The table affected was the blog ‘posts’ so they all disappeared from view.

I worked on the Input site last Friday and only got back to it today to find all the posts had disappeared.

Thankfully I use DB Cron Backup plug-in and this had a good copy of all the ‘post’ table entries, but the SQL file was so large that phpMyAdmin could not upload it.

I therefore tracked down BigDump, a staggered MySQL dump importer, which once properly configured worked a treat.

The result is that the blog is now fully operational again!

Chris, Web Designer at Input Youth

More and more Smartphones and a few Tablets are now being used to visit web sites and at Input Youth we have thousands of these devices trying to access our pages. Last month alone, we had over 1,600 Smartphone users trying to use the site.

It’s been a while since the last job guides report was posted, as other posts have taken precedence.

So here’s the first new weekly report for August 2010. This is a list of the job-guides that were added or amended over the course of this last week (16th to 20th):

• Animal Groomer
• Animal Trainer
• Close Protection Officer
• Dog Trainer
• Dog Handler
• Horse Riding Holiday Centre Manager
• Leisure Centre Manager
• Medical Laboratory Assistant
• Ministry of Defence Police Officer
• Phlebotomist
• Police Community Support Officer
• Security Office Manager

The most searched for job-guides at the moment are for an Estate Agent, a Computer Games Designer and a Driving Examiner.

Chris, Web Designer at Input Youth

Hi all,

The site wide search box at the top of the page is powereed by Google and applies equally to this blog and the main website. So no matter what you search for, you will get a result that includes the whole Input Youth site.

Chris, Web Designer at Input Youth

The move to a new web hosting company was to accomplish three main objectives.

These were:

• To lower the yearly hosting cost by at least £30.
• To swap from a Windows to a Linux server.
• And to find 1st class customer and technical support by reading independent reviews.

After much deliberation I finally decided to try one of the hosts recommended by PC Pro in their Reliability & Service Awards of 2009 – Fast2host.com.

Fast2Host is a British company focused on providing web hosting with top support. And it shows in its results, with 95.8% of its customers happy to recommend Fast2Host to friends and colleagues.

The Input Youth account with Fast2Host was set up on Friday 2 October 2009. I selected the Linux Enterprise package which has 100 sub domains, 50 email accounts and a LAMP configuration (Linux, Apache,MySql and PHP). The whole set up can be managed using CPanel V11.

Changing the TAG

The TAG change from the old host to Fast2Host was completed on Saturday evening and the whole site was uploaded and working by Sunday 4th October. A pretty stella performance! There were no hitches along the way even though the Input Youth site has a WordPress blog and several film shows to slightly complicate matters.

My Final Thoughts

This superb hosting company have been trading since 1999 and seem to go over and above what other hosting companies typically do for their clients. Their service and support are exceptional, which is borne out by the many positive reviews that litter the Internet.

So far we I am extremely happy with Fast2Host. The Input Youth website has experienced no downtime and even loads a bit faster than it used to.

Fast2host are a superb web hosting company who offer loads of useful features as standard. Other hosting companies may well charge extra for these goodies.
So, if you are looking for a good quality hosting solution providing the latest technology at the best possible price, look no further than Fast2hosts.

Work on the Input Youth Blog is nearing completion.

The latest style changes bring the ‘comments form’ more in line with the main website.

Chris, Web Designer at Input Youth

Although this new style blog is a work in progress we do hope you like the new integrated look that relects the overall design of the main web site.

Expect to see a few improvements as the blog is tweaked a bit more!

Chris, Web Designer at Input Youth

Hi all,

There are a lot of new job guides that have been added to Input Youth over the past month or so, and there are far too many to list in this short post.

However another great addition to the site is a brand new job vacancy search box. This can be found at the top of the job guides index page.

By using this job vacancy search box you can now quickly check for job availability based on a specific job title and location.

Chris, Web Designer at Input Youth