I was writing an essay for a college course when i was reminded of the article that “Taught” me how to make web pages. It was in a 1995 article of the San Jose Mercury News. I decided to go searching for it in the archives and I found it! It amazes me how far technology for the web has come and after reading it again, I am amazed at how simply it all began. This was the first tutorial I ever read and it conjures of distant memories of times filled with the Hotdog HTML editor and Perl. We actually called the Net the World Wide Web in those days. From this to more recently HTML5, we have come along way. And i think it is funny how if you followed this article today, you would end up with a non-standards compliant webpage. And to think 25KB took over ten seconds to load.That’s funny,
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The recent rage in entrepreneurship, driven by the likes of Timothy Ferriss with The 4-Hour Work Week has to be the serial ventures launching successfully around the globe by so-called renegade entrepreneurs. These groups of ageless millionaires seem not to care so much for money as they do about living a life that pleases them. They have cut ties with white-collar ways of doing business and have perfected methods that create the incomes necessary to provide them with their chosen lifestyle. Doing so without the constrictions normally associated with big business. There drive is not so much to have things as it to experience the life they long for. To enjoy themselves without the worries normally associated with the corporate world. An activity they like to call lifestyle design.
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Many bloggers feel that good writing is the only requirement for building a great blog. They forget that an increasingly social public drives any powerful online presence. People need to be able to recognize your blog. Your online branding will end up residing within the hearts and minds of your blog’s visitors and they will convey their experience with it to their friends. It is the sum total of their perceptions, whether good or bad. In addition, your blog’s marketing and monetary value is proportionately influenced by the quality of it’s branding. Here are 5 tips that bloggers can use in their website branding.
Do you have a WordPress blog and want to share larger files with your sites visitors? Maybe you want to stream videos. Are you tired of WordPress telling you you have selected a file that is too large to upload? The most common problem new WordPress users run into is being unable to upload files larger than 2 to 8 megs and being unable to display posts with large quantities of media because of memory issues. Surprisingly the fix is very simple. You need to update your php or php5.ini file. Continue reading »
Installing drush, the Drupal command line shell, on a GoDaddy Linux Shared Server Hosting Setup can be a hassle to say the least, especially getting past the drush is designed to be run from the command line error. I am going to make the process simple for you. When I began my journey with drush there wasn’t a whole lot of information on this specific subject, so this tutorial was born.
When I first came across drush, I knew right away that it was an awesome tool for installing and maintaining the Drupal Content Management System, and I was able to get it running on my windows machine rather easily. However, when I went to make the move, and install drush to my production hosting environment, which is on a Shared Linux Server through GoDaddy.Com, I ran into a few configuration and server feature problems that would not allow drush to operate successfully. These are the steps I took to install drush and have it running properly.
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