Here is the scenario: I used Bitnami to create a WordPress install on a free Amazon EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute) micro instance (see this article if you want to know how to do that), and I wanted to point my URL at the resulting site. Furthermore, I wanted the ability to host more than one
Blogging can be a very personal experience. You’re baring your soul before the world. You are vulnerable. One of the worst things is to put yourself out there and receive critical or even mean or hateful comments. I’ve been blogging for some years and overwhelmingly, the response has been amazingly positive. But, one bad or
When you are logged into WordPress, there is a “permanent” grey menu bar at the top of the screen that stays at the top of the browser window no matter how much you scroll down. In the left corner there is a button that allows you to quickly log into the admin area or return
Here is the scenario: You’ve searched high and low and found the perfect WordPress theme for yourself or your client. But, there’s one big problem: it’s not mobile-friendly. With mobile web traffic soon expected to exceed desktop web traffic, being mobile-friendly is critical. I recently had to go through the exercise of converting a non
We all want to protect the content that we create for our blogs and websites, right? Wouldn’t it be terrible if someone copied your site’s content and you later found out that your copyright notice was wrong and offered you no legal protection? Well, I thought I was being diligent by slapping the standard copyright
After living with my slow-loading WordPress sites for a while, I finally decided to hunker down and do something about it. I had heard about a tool called Pingdom which creates waterfall charts so you can see exactly what is happening when your site is loading. There are other similar services, but this one is
The current craze in mobile web development is undoubtedly responsive design, i.e., making websites that adapt dynamically to the size of the browser window using CSS liquid layouts and media queries rather than looking at what hardware device is being used. I am a big fan of responsive website design, but consider the case where
Much has been written about the differences between Facebook Pages and Groups. When I needed to decide which to use for a project, I looked online and found lots of sites listing the features of each, yet I felt they missed the essence of which to use in actual practice. Furthermore, much of the info
Okay, you’ve purchased your brand new domain name and hosting on Go Daddy. Now you need to make your domain point to your website. This simple and commonplace task is surprisingly unintuitive in the Go Daddy user interface. Here, I’ll show you how to do it step by step.
I was given the task to fix a website bug of the following nature: There is an iframe containing a “submit” button. When the Submit button is pressed, new content is loaded into the iframe and the size of the iframe gets much larger. Unfortunately, the containing window does not get larger and ugly scroll