The excessive Texas heat and humidity here in North Texas area have kept me pretty well out of my workshop. I can spend a few hours there with the fans blowing but then I want to escape to the air conditioning. The heat ~100 degrees is not too bad when the humidity is low, but we have been getting Houston like weather for a few weeks. Year 2010’s first hurricane Alex was a big part...
Continue reading...Content Management Systems
I mentioned in a previous post am working with Joomla web site publishing tool. I have been using Macromedia Dreamweaver, now Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 for many years. Before that I used Canadian HTML software called HoT MetaL Pro, now out of business. The Blogs, BBS and Ecommerce sites I run all use a high level authoring, called a Content Management System (CMS). HTML programming is not required but it certainly helps. Most of the development work...
Continue reading...Hey!… Can I get a WORD in Here?
Rob, a business associate of mine (my boss) sent me an email showing me that Microsoft just released MS Office 2010. I told him I had been running the Beta (at home) for at least 6 to 8 months. His reply to that was… Well? Yes it is well. At our place of occupation (job) the “standard” version is Office 2003 and of course we are still running XP pro as the OS. You know...
Continue reading...Always Changes
Sharp eyes or maybe just attentiveness has probably made regular readers here aware of the subtle changes in the layout of this blog. I am always tweaking here and there. Most noticeable is the two RSS feeds I added to the right column. They link to my two other blogs. I like that the RSS feeds tie everything together. I am not sure if a lot of webinites take advantage of RSS. If you have...
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