Drawing on the Web

Powweb, who is my choice for web hosting – the web host that I use for all my sites — has been running a great special for a couple months. Their “Chili-pepper ad” that asks if $5.77 / month for 300GB Space and 3000GB throughput is “Hot enought?” as been quite effective for them:

Now, [...]

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 [...]

Powweb, my web host of choice, offered a special during October — 25% off of their regular $7.77/month price for one- and two-year web-hosting purchases.
Their web site announced that the sale is back by popular demand. New users can purchase the One Plan for only $5.77/month for their initial 1-year or 2-year purchase.
I’m [...]

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Regularly, it’s only $7.77 per month.
Right now, Powweb has [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]