In Mac Server Series: Initial Set Up Brian shares the first steps in a video on setting up a Mac as a server. He works for a web host that lets you send them a Mac Mini, and then you can run your web sites and email off of it. I priced it out, and […]
Archive of posts filed under the Web-design category.
WordPress Titles
In WordCamp: SEO speech it is suggested to “Modify your title tags to say the title of the post entry first and then your blog name. (or remove your blog name from the title tag all together).” So I removed the blog name from the title on the template on one of my other WordPress […]
Warning: The Commonwealth of VA DMV Web Site does not support Safari
If you want to see your tax dollars in action, try visiting the state (commonwealth) of Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles‘ web site using Safari. Under OS X 10.4.7, Safari 2.0.4, you can’t scroll the page so much of the content is missing. Their contact page is missing a close anchor in the top menu […]
Joy of all joys, I get to use MS Frontpage for site maintenance
I recently was asked to join the web team for my church Occoquan Bible Church. The site runs on Miscosoft servers, IIS 6, and Front Page web hosting. Ugh. I did my first tweak to the site today using regular FTP and Pagespinner. Boy, the code was sloppy. I don’t know how much of it […]
Odd referrers in my apache log
Over the past few days I’ve had a few visitors to my web site that have http://www.disney.com as the page referrer. And they are coming into several different pages of the site. I am 99% sure that the disney.com home page is not linking to my site. Can anyone think of any reason why someone […]
Re: Google Weirdness
The 9 Rules network posted a question about google results returning a wildly varying number of results. I read yesterday that Google was attempting to get rid of all of the millions of spam blogs in their index, so it makes perfect sense that other search results might be jumbled for a bit. Of course, […]
Farewell Blosxom, Welcome WordPress!
I’ve finally completed moving away from using Blosxom for my blog, and using WordPress. I started out on Saturday morning by installing WordPress 2.03, looking at the options and methods for reading the data from Blosxom, designing a template, and then writing some scripts to manage requests that come in looking for my old blog […]
Can’t scroll over Google Ads?
Has anyone noticed that you can’t scroll over Google Ads? Is this new? If I’m on a web page that has some Google Adsense ads, and I scroll down the page using my mouse’s scroll wheel, the page stops scrolling if I happen to go over an ad. I have to move the mouse cursor […]
National Geographic Adventure magazine
I stumbled across this page: One Day at a Time on the Five-Million-Step Program. I read the article, but at the end of the page was told to read the rest I should buy the June/July (2004!) issue of the magazine. Nice. This is what I asked the editors at the magazine: I just stumbled […]
<head> has to be on its own line?
What’s the deal with the <head> command having to be on its own line on a web page? One of my older sites is busted in Mozilla, Firefox, and Safari. It only shows the page source code, until I move the head to its own line. Ugh. I thought whitespace was irrelevant.