I am pondering the login links for a few of the websites that I am helping set up. they have differing requirements and I am coming to the conclusion that one needs a different approach for each.
Wordpress currently puts the admin and login links in a meta data section in the sidebar (optional with [...]
Yearly Archives: 2007
What to do with the admin / login links?
Comparison of Event Calendar Plug-ins
We are thinking of converting the school’s website from typo3 to wordpress to make it easier for staff and parents to collaborate in maintaining the website.
We would like to have a event listing feature that is really easy to use. From a usability point of view, it would be nice if [...]
Keeping phone costs down with Voip - a second phone line.
We are trying out a new option here. I find that skype in the evening is often not good - too much internet activity in the neighbourhood I think. With VOIP we can call landlines and it essentially gives us a second phone line (for outgoing calls only though). If we [...]
Upgrading to Mysql5 - more strange characters
An upgrade of a wordpress site’s Database from Mysql 4 to Mysql 5 gave some surprising results - some strange characters floating around - those funny question marks. I had already successfully converted (I thought) some other sites. When I thought about what was different, I realised most of this [...]
Process to upgrade to PHP 5 on your own server (Apache on Windows XP)
Download and unzip files
I tried the installer first, hit a problem and went back to the manual install as recommended.
Decide which php.ini (Dist or recommended) file to use, rename (save your old one first as a reference). Then edit php.ini as follows :
define default date timezone: [...]