Category Archives: HTML, CSS, PHP

WordPress 3 Multi-Site Installation, Even with Existing Web Sites

WordPress 3 setup, even if you already have a web site, and want Multi-Site features to manage many blogs easily. Move your existing web site, put WordPress in the root of your hosting account, configure your subdomains. Detailed instructions, for you and for your hosting provider.

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WordPress 3 Multi-Site Installation, Even with Existing Web Sites

WordPress 3 setup, even if you already have a web site, and want Multi-Site features to manage many blogs easily. Move your existing web site, put WordPress in the root of your hosting account, configure your subdomains. Detailed instructions, for you and for your hosting provider.

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KeyCaps Font for Computer Documentation

How to use CSS or a web-licensed keyboard font with all the special keys needed for computer software instructional pages.

KeyCaps Font for Computer Documentation

How to use CSS or a web-licensed keyboard font with all the special keys needed for computer software instructional pages.

Web site design, Keep Vertical Spacing Even, with Em-based layouts

Keeping the vertical spacing even, especially when having text line up in multiple columns, is a way to make your web site look better. This article, “Keep vertical spacing even with Em based layouts – Vertical rhythm calculator” http://jameswhittaker.com/journal/em-based-layouts-vertical-rhythm-calculator/ makes

Web site design, Keep Vertical Spacing Even, with Em-based layouts

Keeping the vertical spacing even, especially when having text line up in multiple columns, is a way to make your web site look better. This article, “Keep vertical spacing even with Em based layouts – Vertical rhythm calculator” http://jameswhittaker.com/journal/em-based-layouts-vertical-rhythm-calculator/ makes

WordPress stores domain name, here's how to change it

I had multiple domain names pointing to the same place (www.lernerconsult.com and www.lernerc.com were identical).  Then the DNS for lernerc.com got altered. WordPress was translating calls from www.lernerconsult.com/blog/ into www.lernerc.com/blog/ and that didn’t work… Here’s how to adjust it: You

WordPress stores domain name, here's how to change it

I had multiple domain names pointing to the same place (www.lernerconsult.com and www.lernerc.com were identical).  Then the DNS for lernerc.com got altered. WordPress was translating calls from www.lernerconsult.com/blog/ into www.lernerc.com/blog/ and that didn’t work… Here’s how to adjust it: You

Xampp directory mismatch

If you unzip the Xampp files (e.g. into c:\xampp) the installer doesn’t know where the installed files went.  You will see in the Xampp Control Panel Application (xampp-control.exe) a message “directory mismatch”. This doesn’t matter for normal operation of Xampp,

Xampp directory mismatch

If you unzip the Xampp files (e.g. into c:\xampp) the installer doesn’t know where the installed files went.  You will see in the Xampp Control Panel Application (xampp-control.exe) a message “directory mismatch”. This doesn’t matter for normal operation of Xampp,

Xampp with Skype

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/faq-xampp-windows.html#startpage  has this change to Skype configuration to allow Skype and Xampp to work together: If Apache doesn’t start while Skype is running, change the settings on Skype to not use port 80.  Skype’s Tools, Options, Connection tab, uncheck “Use

Xampp with Skype

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/faq-xampp-windows.html#startpage  has this change to Skype configuration to allow Skype and Xampp to work together: If Apache doesn’t start while Skype is running, change the settings on Skype to not use port 80.  Skype’s Tools, Options, Connection tab, uncheck “Use

PHP Development on your laptop

Setting up a PHP development environment Setting up my laptop to be a PHP/MySQL server was easier than I would have predicted. Download the XAMPP package from Apache Friends at http://www.apachefriends.org and unzip it to c:\xampp (keeping the folder hierarchy

PHP Development on your laptop

Setting up a PHP development environment Setting up my laptop to be a PHP/MySQL server was easier than I would have predicted. Download the XAMPP package from Apache Friends at http://www.apachefriends.org and unzip it to c:\xampp (keeping the folder hierarchy

2-Column HTML using DIVs (no print problems)

If you code your multi-column web page wrong, IE and Firefox won’t be able to page break properly for printing. Seems that if you use <p id=”asdf”> the pages won’t print right, if instead you use <p class=”asdf”> they will.

2-Column HTML using DIVs (no print problems)

If you code your multi-column web page wrong, IE and Firefox won’t be able to page break properly for printing. Seems that if you use <p id=”asdf”> the pages won’t print right, if instead you use <p class=”asdf”> they will.

Picked Lunar Pages for new web host

Lunar Pages, http://www.lunarpages.com/id/glerner had the best match of features for my needs. For $7.95/month paid annually, I get 350GB storage, 3500 GB/Month transfers, PHP 4 and 5, and developer tools such as Ruby. I have full control over scripts to

Picked Lunar Pages for new web host

Lunar Pages, http://www.lunarpages.com/id/glerner had the best match of features for my needs. For $7.95/month paid annually, I get 350GB storage, 3500 GB/Month transfers, PHP 4 and 5, and developer tools such as Ruby. I have full control over scripts to