Archive for January, 2006

Surviving the upgrade to XP

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

In order to use more modern software I decided to upgrade my home PC to windows XP from win98. I bought the software and read the instructions in and on the box before starting. Nowhere on the instructions that come with the upgrade package does it tell you to disconect all external devices like […]

Overcoming Hosting restrictions

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

If you run a large ecommerce store or bulletin board you may occasionally be plagued with the dreaded “userx has exceed the max_questions currently set at (some value)”. In my case my host limits the user mySQL queries per hour to 50000. Which sounds like a lot but when you consider an ecommerce […]

Cascade DTC - Software review

Friday, January 6th, 2006

This is a copy of a post at my other site biz-story.com

I have been using a new layout tool to structure a website. Cascade DTC from Price Media (UK) is a simple but very effective layout tool for those of us who code with web standards and CSS layouts. The tool provides an easy user […]

Happy New Year

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Dec 31st found me putting the final touches on a website for beetlesbbq.com. Doing this site was a great deal of fun because the client was very easy to work with, gave me some creative freedom to create an unusual design, and had a fun theme of Barbecue, Cartoon Cars, and southern charm. In the […]