Archive for category 'Website'
Sorry
I’ve been horrible with making posts. I keep forgetting or I tell myself I’ll do it tomorrow. I’ll try to do better from now on. Soon to come though, at some point I want to switch away from WordPress and build this site on PyroCMS. PyroCMS is build on Codeigniter, which I love and know … Continue reading
Setting Up Virtual Hosts in Zend Server CE on OS X
What is a virtual host? Virtual hosting is a method for hosting multiple domain names on a computer using a single IP address. Shared hosting uses this same method for all of the sites they host. Aren’t those URLs you use in Zend Server getting pretty ugly? Would you like to change http://localhost/my/awesome/website into http://www.super-awesome.local … Continue reading
Site Updates
It only took me 5 months but I finally updated the site from WordPress 2.9 to Wirdpress 3. I wanted to redesign the theme to work better with the new features in WordPress 3. At the same time, I updated some functionality. I also removed the dropdown navigation in the menu. I also moved the … Continue reading
CSS Naked Day
Yesterday was CSS Naked Day. CSS Naked Day was thought up by Dustin Diaz. The purpose of CSS Naked Day is to to promote Web Standards; including proper use of XHTML, semantic markup, and a good hierarchy structure. In other words it disables your CSS for for a 24 hour period in order to promote … Continue reading
.htaccess vs. MAMP
This took me three days to figure out so hopefully this saves someone else a little bit of time. The most common use of .htaccess files is removing file extensions, such as index.php, from a website URL. They are much ore powerful than that though. I’m not going to go into the details about what … Continue reading