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Troubleshooting WordPress Automatic Updates on IIS 6

WordPress automatic updates are awesome. When they work, they're as easy as a click of a button. When they fail, however, you're left either reconciling yourself to an eternity of manual updates, or troubleshooting your host--a process that routinely takes much longer than applying the update manually would've. In this…

TaavoAugust 9, 2010

Design Tutorials Web Development

In-Browser Web Design: What I learned from Project Runway and Andy Clarke

My name is Alex and I'm a a reality TV addict. Hi, Alex. I admit my guilty pleasure and embrace it. My favorite show is Project Runway, because it neatly sidesteps most of the Real World-esque drama and focuses on the creative process. Truth be told, I'm probably more of…

AlexAugust 4, 2010

Server Configuration Tutorials Web Development

Install PHP5 on an Uncooperative VPS

A VPS is the standard upgrade when conventional shared hosting won't meet your needs. The catch, and most hosts try not to make this clear, is that you're then on the hook for all configuration, upgrades, and maintenance. And as an added bonus, many hosts offer default VPS installs configured…

TaavoJune 28, 2010

Tutorials Web Development

Updating Drupal

Compared to WordPress's automated self-updates, Drupal's update process is something of a chore. This chore isn't made any easier by Drupal's documentation (also here), which at the time of writing takes up nine pages, is self-contradictory, unnecessarily time-consuming and somewhat paranoid. And it never offers a canonical pragmatic checklist. After…

TaavoJuly 28, 2009

Tutorials Web Development

Battling Website Viruses

We spent some time trying to remove a nasty bit of malware code from one of my client's servers today. On their windows server, this virus used javascript to create a list of invisible links (in an i-frame) to bugged websites in the page footer. On their Unix/Linux accounts, the virus added…

Todd DumasJune 22, 2009

Project Launches Tutorials Web Development

Testing with Drupal 6.1

We received another inquiry this week regarding Drupal website maintenance -- that was enough to get us motivated to learn the basics of the CMS system. We installed Drupal on our new testing site: www.websitedesigndenver.com, and we will be experimenting with the application over the next couple weeks. Feel free…

Todd DumasMay 28, 2009

Design Tutorials

A brief list of major web design obstacles facing today’s designers

There are no great solutions to any of these problems/limitations yet, just a series of hacks and work arounds ... CSS issues Multi-column layouts in CSS Vertically-centered content in CSS Active Links tag Cross-browser compatibility issues Rounded corners Embedded fonts Rotated text PNG image files CSS Vertical Collapsing Margins Table…

Todd DumasFebruary 4, 2009

Design Tutorials

And a brief(er) list of uber helpful tools

From Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 - awesome package InContext CMS - great way to upgrade static sites to allow for basics client CMS Spry Datasets - fast way to create a mini-database. tragically, not readable by search engines Flash FLV player - quickly stream most media From others Wordpress - fast, simple, powerful…

Todd DumasFebruary 4, 2009

Design Tutorials

CSS vs. Table Layouts – A hybrid solution

As most web designers know, there is a debate raging over the use of HTML Tables (ie. table, tr, td, etc.) in the construction of web page layouts. The main issue is that CSS offers no simple (and supported) solution for the creation of basic, vertically flexible, columns. In fact,…

Todd DumasJanuary 2, 2009

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Troubleshooting WordPress Automatic Updates on IIS 6

In-Browser Web Design: What I learned from Project Runway and Andy Clarke

Install PHP5 on an Uncooperative VPS

Updating Drupal

Battling Website Viruses

Testing with Drupal 6.1

A brief list of major web design obstacles facing today’s designers

And a brief(er) list of uber helpful tools

CSS vs. Table Layouts – A hybrid solution

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