Archive for February, 2008

Bad Monday

Monday seems to be the day that I will have to put out website fires.Usually it’s innocuous stuff but today –no such luck.
I opened my email and there was a message from someone I’d set up a website for stating the that his site was considered by Google to be a site that [...]

What to do when you can’t work on your webproject?

I had to decide this for myself last night because Dreamhost(those lovely bastards) had taken everyone down during a cluster migration.That’s technical talk for you’re screwed until it’s over.
Hopping on over to the forum for Dreamhost I saw many fruitless bitch and moan comments that followed the announcement.This is the web equivilant to honking one’s [...]

unexpected t_string in plugins/exec-php/includes/runtime.php

Ahh the old unexpected T_STRING error message.I’m familiar with causing this error, not fixing it.So I headed over to the Exec PHP plugin home page to sniff out some way of making it go away.
Keeping in mind that in one Page where I’d used the plugin to display a list of pages it worked just [...]

Is being a designer like being a contractor?

Well, no because one still doesn’t need to have a license in order to be a working web designer.
But the comparison came to me while I was watching a home improvement show called Holmes on Homes where Mr.Holmes comes in and repairs the shoddy work of contractors who have basically skipped town with the money.
He [...]