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Fantastico, php and MySQL databases in cPanel

Saturday, July 19th, 2008 Posted in Building my websites | No Comments »

Why Fantastico is fantastic I'm going to declare my hand from the outset when it comes to Fantastico (more info about Fantastico) here. Despite my best efforts, as a keen amateur building websites I have been unable to get to grips with the intricacies ...

In the picture … online photo editing

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in Building my websites, Interesting stuff | No Comments »

Making your snaps crackle and pop It's amazing how quickly things change in the online world. When I started making websites 6 years ago, you had to buy a bit of software like Photoshop at great expense and there wasn't really a ...

Open Source top 10

Sunday, July 6th, 2008 Posted in Building my websites | No Comments »

Open Source chart countdown I've just been reading this article from theblogjoint.com and it got me thinking about my own Open Source Top 10. It's not that long ago that I learnt what Open Source is, but I've gone from 0-100mph in ...

Oops! What to do when there’s an error …

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Building my websites | No Comments »

ht what? I'll admit that I'm new to .htaccess files, but I've had to snuggle up and get much closer to them as a result of some work I've been doing to get my websites ready for launch. I've always managed to ...

Mambo - a free content management system removing the need to know HTML

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in Building my websites, Great new URLs | No Comments »

What's CMS? As I've explained elsewhere in this blog, when taking a look at E107, CMS means ‘Content Management System’ and is what you use if you have a big, growing website with loads of content on it. Wikipedia  gives a full ...