W3 Total Cache is one of the best plugins I’ve found for wordpress. Yet, at first glance it can seem overwhelming to setup. But, it’s not really all that hard. Recently I’d moved this site from Drupal to WordPress which went pretty smooth except for a few small issues with [...]
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…Moving this site from Drupal back to WordPress which I had alluded to in a previous post. Thankfully there is alot already written about this on the internet. For some odd reason during the move the threaded comments ended up out of order. Coupled with some but not all of [...]
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After almost two years of running this site on Drupal 6, I finally came to the realization in late may it was time to move it back to WordPress and Thesis. What brought me to this decision was more than just the upkeep associated with running a simple blog on [...]
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PHP and MySql websites comprise most of what we’ve talked about when it comes to blogs and cms systems. With both of these systems the overhead on the web server becomes and issue. If the site should become very large and have lots of visitors simultaneously making request it will [...]
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What do I mean when I say, static – blog? Since you can install blog software like wordpress into a subdirectory or into a folder making it part of your original website. This allows you to use one domain name which you may already have good ranking with. Your can [...]
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CMS or Content Management Systems are something that is kind of new but really it’s not new. Generally before you would pay an exorbitant price for a CMS system as they truly are scalable from a simple one person website to large enough for a corporate or news website. Generally [...]
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Can A Blog Be Your Primary WebSite? This is an emphatic yes it can. Todays blog software has really progressed in a rapid fashion as to it’s capabilities. Setting up a blog website can range from simply easy to well lets say don’t try this at home, yet we should [...]
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The basic purpose of cascading style sheets (CSS) is presentation. In the early days of the internet, with the advent of graphical web browsers designers ran into challenges with the presentation of web pages. In the early years control was in the hands of the user – visitors to the [...]
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Hyper Text Markup Language is instructions give to your web browser so that instead of seeing ones and zero’s you see this page that your viewing. Learning html can really drive you crazy especially when things go wrong and trust me they will. Often in the beginning I would spend [...]
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What is it? A static website is just that, you write your material just as you would in any word processor upload it as a .html or .htm webpage. Creating pages has it’s advantages and disadvantages. The majority of websites found on the internet fall into this class. Advantages of [...]
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