Posted on 01. Sep, 2005 by Tim Griffin in Blogging
I discovered a friend was using wordpress with a different view on the admin side of his site. A quick look at the codex and I too can see things a little more clearly. WordPress is an amazing powerful tool for website administration. (Updated one site, and installed a fresh site for Mike this afternoon [...]
Posted on 22. Jul, 2005 by Tim Griffin in Tips and Pointers
An alternate browser which is far better than Internet Explorer. Firefox has many tools for making the internet do what you want it to do – called extensions.
Posted on 06. Jul, 2005 by Tim Griffin in Blogging
So, what is that button supposed to do on your keyboard PrScn 1. Click it once 2. Open Word or a photo editor 3. Paste in the screen capture ~or~
Posted on 28. Jun, 2005 by Tim Griffin in Blogging, Community, Tips and Pointers, eMail
Every so often my e-mail slows way down. Long into the process I get the hunch that someone nicely sent me a couple photos. And these two photos weigh in at about 1 ton each Here are a few suggestions for e-mailing photos and sparing the receiver’s inbox: Method #1) Use a simple photo program [...]
Posted on 26. Jun, 2005 by Tim Griffin in Blogging
If you have been wanting a gmail account I have about 50 invites to give away. I have thoroughly enjoyed this account and would love to pass one on to you. Simply leave a comment here and I will send one your way Primary reasons for a gmail account: 2.2 gigs of e-mail space no [...]
Posted on 27. Apr, 2005 by Tim Griffin in Blogging
I just have to say, firefox is the best web experience ever! Things I use regularly: ~Fire FTP Allows me to transfer files safely to and from my webserver ~Web Developer Edit css directly and see the changes in my page! And – a must have for the person who uses internet cafes:
Posted on 27. Apr, 2005 by Tim Griffin in Blogging, Tips and Pointers
Just found this article and thought it worth noting: “Maintaining a picture gallery: a painless process” Looks worth a try for folks on XP with an online coppermine gallery. Update: I tried to find the original article and the site is either down or has gone away. I have a copy of the article as [...]
Posted on 11. Apr, 2005 by Tim Griffin in Blogging, Community, WordPress
WordPress Customization Guide for Newbies – Elliott Back: An informative guide with plenty of tips to get started turning wordpress into a polished site for publishing your own content. A great place to link! (Several good plugins demonstrated on this site.)
Posted on 01. Apr, 2005 by Tim Griffin in Blogging
This was posted in the Bangkok Post, Wednesday March 30, 2005 If you want to make Firefox work a little harder and faster, you can turn on “pipelining” options. these use an experimental system designed to load some web pages faster. Type “about:config’ in the Firefox address line. At the filter function type “network.http” to [...]
Posted on 26. Mar, 2005 by Tim Griffin in Blogging
I found this page quite useful for customizing the wp-404 template. MtDewVirus » Custom Error Pages To utilize the custom error template which the default WP1.5 template has built in requires a simple setp: Add the following .htaccess code entry below wordpress code: ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404 I also did a quick runthrough on setting up [...]