Thursday, 08 of May, 2008 at 04:37 PM
When I first started out creating websites for clients, the option of a client being able to update their own site wasn't an option from me. I hadn't ever looked at a bit of PHP at that point (late 1990s) and everything was done by hand or in Dreamweaver (The Professional's choice so I read!). [...]
Thursday, 08 of May, 2008 at 03:55 PM
Just a quick post to let you know that I've upgraded both of my WordPress Plugins today to make them fit in with the new look of the WordPress 2.5 admin panel. What Others Are Saying has had the admin page redone, whilst the Page Link Title Attributes plugin has been altered to fit in with [...]
Sunday, 04 of May, 2008 at 10:23 PM
It's been a couple of weeks I know. Last Sunday I had to get my Blogging Tips post written and then we went out to a friend's for a 'decking warming BBQ', and didn't get back in until late and I just never got time to write up a post. It's been a mad two weeks [...]
Friday, 02 of May, 2008 at 02:17 PM
April Earnings came in at $284 so just $8 short of March, which has an extra day in it (well that's my excuse!). Cash in the bank (the real stuff not just virtual figures) has hit £603 which compared to last year's average (£127*4 = £508) is almost £100 improvement. We're averaging £150 a month [...]
Wednesday, 30 of April, 2008 at 10:25 AM
I've just noticed a further flaw in the Show Top Commentators Plugin (original by Nate Sanden) where despite forming the list by author email instead of name, the URL was still being retrieved using the author name. I've now fixed this as well and have uploaded the new version of the plugin. Anyone using this [...]
Thursday, 24 of April, 2008 at 05:32 PM
You may remember a while back I wrote about my broken trackbacks and my attempts to fix them. I noticed last month or so that a trackback had appeared on my AIS Blog but didn't want to mention it in case it was a one off. However I've seen a few more appearing so now [...]
Monday, 21 of April, 2008 at 03:06 PM
I've been working on setting up my new site and decided to try out the WP e-Commerce plugin on it for dealing with selling the products. I would have used Secure Delivery however I need to give the option of a shopping cart to visitors as most will hopefully purchase two products, the main product [...]
Sunday, 20 of April, 2008 at 09:17 PM
Owwww I ache! An afternoon of Dave and I playing baseball on the Wii and my arms are aching and I've done something to my back (exercise is what I've done!). However, aches and pains aside, must admit I'm having fun with my new exercise toy. I've also preordered the new Wii Fit which I [...]
Thursday, 17 of April, 2008 at 07:37 PM
For those who want to understand the secure PHP contact form that I wrote and released last month, here is part 1 of the dissection of the code with the whys and hows. I was planning to just do one post with a complete dissection but I've had this sitting here for a couple of weeks [...]
Tuesday, 15 of April, 2008 at 02:56 PM
Quick walk up the hill behind us last night resulted in the photo below. Gotta say, can't complain when you get a view like this.
Tuesday, 15 of April, 2008 at 01:27 PM
You may think this sounds like an obvious topic, but I've read about so many people having problems or just simply too scared to upgrade in case something goes wrong. It's such a simple thing to do too. I've upgraded both blogs on this domain to WordPress 2.5 today, took less than half an hour [...]
Monday, 14 of April, 2008 at 04:21 PM
You're probably wondering why. It's not to increase your feed reader numbers (is 1 going to make that much difference?!), and yes it's already a good idea anyway to check that your posts are coming through correctly and without display problems. However to me now, the main reason is because of this spate of hacking [...]
Sunday, 13 of April, 2008 at 04:47 PM
Spring is in the air! Well it is April. The snow has finally stopped (for the time being) and it's really starting to feel like spring. We went out yesterday afternoon and grabbed a few shots of the glorious beach and weather around the coast. Not to mention a half asleep bumble bee (see [...]
Wednesday, 09 of April, 2008 at 04:55 PM
This will affect both employed and self-employed people in the UK. For those of you who don't know how our tax system works it's usually the first £X (£5,435 for 2008/09) is freepay, this means you can earn that much and it's all yours. The next £Y (£2,230 for 2007/08) was taxed at 10% (tax [...]
Tuesday, 08 of April, 2008 at 02:21 PM
Bit quiet around here at present as I've got a couple of things underway. The first is the continued work on adding to my Foodie site. I'm adding a 'bookshelf' page, listing all of my cookbooks (I have a couple!) with links through to Amazon, along with a kitchenware page, again listing products I have [...]
Sunday, 06 of April, 2008 at 10:02 PM
We've spent all week being forecast rain yet not had a drop, the woke up today and there was a minor coverage of snow around! We had about enough for a snowball, but the sun had already melted most of it away. I did get a photo from my mum showing me my Dad's [...]
Friday, 04 of April, 2008 at 10:24 AM
I may not be on the ball here, so forgive me if this is old, but I noticed this on one my sites today. On the ad shown left, you'll notice up and down arrows below the ad in the bottom left. Spotting this I decided to click it to see what would happen. [...]
Wednesday, 02 of April, 2008 at 08:11 PM
So, I've installed the new WordPress version on one live site, none of the plugins stopped working and the live site appears fine. Looking on the Codex at the Version 2.5 page it doesn't seem like much has changed with the core code or maybe that's just because the page isn't complete yet. So what's [...]
Wednesday, 02 of April, 2008 at 01:45 PM
This month has been pretty good for earnings. Our AdSense has gone back up by a 25% increase, I had a couple more Text Link Ads 'sales' too, which has helped with the income, plus a couple more sales on DIY Covers. Total for the month comes to $292, which is a good increase on [...]
Tuesday, 01 of April, 2008 at 10:35 AM
After writing about 1 month last year, it was put on hold by Gary, however he's now officially launched the first product for sale on the site. For sale is his 5 Starred script, but on the incremental pricing structure, so today it's $1, tomorrow it'll be $2 and so on until the 30th of [...]
