Drawing on the Web

WordPress.org released version 2.1, codenamed Ella (for jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald) in mid-January. So far, I like the changes and improvements. Upgrading from the previous version was easy, although it required locking the site and deleting almost all the previous WordPress files and replacing them with the new versions of the files. This step was [...]

In a followup to my earlier post, my XAMPP installation on my notebook is working quite well, at least the Apache and PHP portions. I haven’t yet configured MySQL, but there’s a walk-through on setting it up. You can get the XAMPP web server package — for free — from ApacheFriends.org. It provides the Apache [...]

I recently installed XAMPP on my notebook computer, which is my main web development platform. In the Linux world, the term LAMP or LAMPP means “Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl and PHP” — in other words, the main web server, database and scripting packages used in the web development world. XAMPP, then is Apache, MySQL, Perl [...]

Welcome to my new web design blog. I’ve decided to post web design topics here, rather than interleaving them into my regular computer tips blog at Terry’s Computer Tips blog The topics here will all be web design focused, and I expect them to include at least the following subjects: HTML CSS Apache Web Server [...]