posted in News, Web Design on Sun. March 14, 2010 by Dan - 964 views
Cartier Consulting, LLC
The Cartier Consulting, LLC web site has recently undergone a transformation. The site has been completely redesigned from the ground up based on the WordPress platform.
If you are looking for computer, networking, or web site services or repairs, and you are located in the Seacoast New Hampshire area, then you should check out what Cartier Consulting, LLC can do for you!
posted in Tips, Web, Web Design on Tue. September 22, 2009 by Dan - 1,168 views
Experts-Exchange
Wow, my first Experts-Exchange accepted solution. Experts-Exchange is a website where people who are anywhere from user-level to guru-level can ask questions and post solutions.
The site used to be free, but I think they are now taking advantage of the increasing popularity it has enjoyed. Here's a link to the question that my solution was accepted for:
posted in Tips, Web, Web Design on Thu. September 3, 2009 by Dan - 37,822 views
There are several blogs and web sites discussing issues with WordPress sites not getting indexed by Google. I was hoping that the reason my site was not getting indexed would be revealed in this thread: Major Problem solved with WordPress & Google. Unfortunately, it wasn't.
WordPress Privacy Settings
I searched a lot more and finally realized that there was a WordPress setting that handled this. I had set my site to be publicly available in an older version, but somehow, somewhere along the way, it got changed.
posted in Tips, Web, Web Design on Thu. February 26, 2009 by Dan - 1,767 views
In my last post, I outlined the XAMPP program and what it can do. Unfortunately, I hit a bit of a bump in the road, and wanted to share with others how I got around it.
Once I installed XAMPP, set up a new local database for testing, extracted a fresh copy of WordPress in the new c:/xampp/htdocs/wordpress folder I created, I opened wp-config-example.php to add my database and account info, and then saved it as wp-config.php.
All good so far, right? Well, not exactly. To begin the WordPress installation, I pointed my browser to http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php
I entered my user name and email address and clicked on the next button.
posted in Tips, Web, Web Design on Wed. February 25, 2009 by Dan - 4,831 views
While I was performing some extensive WordPress plugin compatibility testing, I was getting frustrated with having to wait for what seemed like an eternity for page refreshes to occur. I did a little Google-ing and found an excellent open-source software package called XAMPP that runs on Windows.
XAMPP screen shot
It lets you run Apache (a web server program), PHP5 (a server programming language), MySql (a database program), FileZilla (an FTP program), and Mercury (an e-mail server program) on your local hard drive running a 32-bit version of Windows. You can manually start the programs/servers or run them as installed services. Here is a good XAMPP installation tutorial.
