Choosing a hosting company : Boagworld web design podcast A nice overview and checklist of things to consider when signing up for a new hosting account. I'd never considered the 'managing multiple sites' via one login before. I wonder if Textdrive do that? (tags: webdesign business hosting)
So that was my first week back at work after a month off with my new son. It wasn’t as much of a shock to the system as I thought it was going to be. Thankfully Oliver is allowing us a fairly decent night’s sleep so I wasn’t in a blurry fug siting at my [...]
A New Day | Jason Santa Maria Jesus! I just looked at this site for the first time in ages. I've been _reading_ it via my RSS reader but haven't been able to take advantage of the stunning per-article design until now. (tags: webdesign inspiration) QuarkBase – About It is a mashup of over 30 [...]
How I’m currently backing up my data at home. Works for me.
Joomla! Yet another open-source CMS. Used by the MTV network apparently. Seems to have the market share over Drupal and WordPress at the mo too (according to Google insights). (tags: webdesign cms joomla) Your Drupal Experts in San Francisco | Chapter Three Chapter Three was founded in San Francisco in 2006 by Zack Rosen, Josh [...]
WP Super Cache Serve static files, reduce the load on PHP scripts, ensure you site is viewed even under heavy load. (tags: webdesign wordpress plugins) WordPress as a CMS – Content Management System How to use WordPress as a Content Management System. The author identifies a number of sites that use WordPress for non-blog sites [...]
I return to work today from a marathon four weeks off. Two of those weeks were official paternity leave and the final two were holiday bolted onto the end. Four weeks was just right for me. Helen and I have settled down into this parenthood lark and I’m comfortable leaving to get on with their [...]
My workload at the Open University (OU) stepped up a gear in 2006 and I was granted extra responsibility and increasing autonomy. I was enlisted to work on the graphical user interface for the OU ePortfolio, MyStuff. This was initially a very exciting task as I was brand new to the concept which seemed like [...]
I’m a PHP thickie to be honest. I blunder around attempting to understand what I’m doing with programming but rarely have a clue. It’s all just magic fairy dust to me. When I get something working, frankly I’m amazed. Today I conquered WordPress conditionals. I thought I’d log down what I did because I’m likely [...]
I’ve been threatening to redesign my site for about three years now. Owing to being so busy at work and with all the things I get up to in my social life it just hasn’t been a priority for me. However, ones personal site should reflect ones web design ability so I’ve decided to just [...]