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The Chronicles of my Adventures as a Hobbyist WebMaster

Here an Update – There an Update

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:56:57 +0000 - Or “Dusting Off the Old Web Editor” I finally did the most needed update to the Mixing Live Sound site. I am an affiliate of a specialty book shop. They had changed their site and their affiliate tracking. My old links were broken. I updated my book of the day rotator and book store page. [...]

My First Usable PHP Script

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:22:03 +0000 - Maybe I should not claim this as ‘my first script’ because it is just an implementation of code, but I did make something that is useful to me using PHP. I have been interested in learning a bit more about PHP as it is an important scripting language used in web development. I have a [...]

PHP Anyone?

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:47:47 +0000 - I am beginning to dig into PHP scripting a bit more. I want a custom script and there is no money at this time of year to get it programmed. I have some interest in PHP anyway as all of the dynamic sites use PHP scripts, so it is time that I learn a bit [...]

Swapping Servers

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:27:12 +0000 - The move has been put into effect. There may still be some tidying up to do, but most stuff is working on the new server. I  moved Information Please Articles into its own space under its own domain name. It was a sub-domain space site, but the name was available so I snagged it. The [...]

Moving Databases

Sun, 07 Aug 2011 01:18:08 +0000 - I got the new hosting space. There was a problem with FTP at first but that cleared eventually. I uploaded my article directory site to the new server. I had been concerned about the time that it would take because of the size and the download time that I had experienced, but the upload time [...]

The Limits of UnLimited Hosting

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 01:21:00 +0000 - I am delinquent in posting once again! I have been playing with my sites but not documenting my progress here. When one first embarks on a journey as a Hobby Webmaster one of the first things to do, if the hobby gets serious, is to open a hosting account. I started out on free space [...]

A Small Victory

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 01:41:34 +0000 - Mark the last little problem with my Social Bookmarking script solved. I had been chasing my tail on this one for a time, and then when I read through the css file in a bit more detail the answer was obvious, making me feel a bit silly. I use a fixed width layout for most [...]

Mark the File Path Problem Solved

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:50:19 +0000 - I dug back into the script and found the problem was as I suspected. The css was looking for an images folder in the root directory. The images were in a folder two levels down from the root directory. When I adjusted the file paths the background images were, in fact, available and so the [...]

Distractions and Problems

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:44:13 +0000 - I got the new script installed but ran into problems with the css file. I use background images on most of my sites. I wrote the code to do this in my css file. I uploaded the file and opened the page only to find . . . no background images. I checked my code [...]

A Script to Play With

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:05:46 +0000 - I have just run across a script that I think will add value to several of my sites. It is a Digg Clone social bookmarking script from Pligg.com. There is a SuperCrarged Bookmarks service being offered by the SEO Forum at IMTalk.Org that uses a network of social bookmarking sites based on this script. I [...]