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Entries from July 2004

It’s about time

Living “up north” has been wonderful. We love it here. But the dial-up has been killing us. Finally there will soon be high speed access in our small part of the North Country.
“Charter to begin high-speed internet upgrade in Roscommon county“
Charter Communications is beginning an upgrade of its area cable networks which will give [...]

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July 30th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: News

How to build a good church website

How to build a good church website… If you’re responsible for building and maintaining your church website this site will help you sort through the details.

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July 29th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Web Dev

Gmail tools

Are you using Gmail yet? Accounts are hard to come by because you have to wait for a friend to refer you but if you have a Gmail account you might be interested in this handy link collection of tools.

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July 29th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Email

Nice breadcrumb plugin for WordPress

Breadcrumb Plugin 0.71 for WordPress 1.2

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July 26th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Web Dev

Free menus ready to go

Free Menu Designs

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July 26th, 2004 · 1 Comment | Tags: CSS

CSS Boxes in columns

The Practice of CSS Column Design: Boxes in Columns. Help for those boxes in you’d like to place in columns and how to do it with CSS.

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July 26th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

“Not Found” Is Not An Option

‘Not Found’ Is Not An Option: Error Handling and User Experience. About making the user experience smoother when dealing with pages not found.

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July 26th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Web Dev

Dropdown Cats Plugin

Dropdown Cats Plugin for WordPress with some powerful features like sorting and recognition of sub-categories.

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July 26th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Web Dev

A few WP and MT templates

Neil’s templates for WordPress and Movable Type. A handful of clean looking templates.

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July 26th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: MovableType

Bloglines and Firefox fix

I’ve not used my Bloglines account for some time. But today when I tried to use it nothing would happen when I clicked a link to view recent posts from a feed. So I did a quick search and found this handy Bloglines and Firefox fix. Seems there’s a problem with the Tabbrowser Extensions for [...]

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July 22nd, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Firefox

Free invisible hit counter and more

StatCounter is a capable, free, hit counter, web tracker and web stats service that allows you run it invisible to your visitors.

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July 21st, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Web Dev

TypeMover

TypeMover looks like a thorough backup tool for MovableType. This could come in very handy for those moving to another server.

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July 20th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: MovableType

WordPress as a CMS

Here’s a decent article to help you setup and maintain your non-blog site with WordPress making it your Content Management System—Faking it: WordPress as CMS

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July 16th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Web Dev

Picasa - digital photo organizer

Picasa, now part of Google, is a very nice, free digital photo organizer for sharing, printing and making photo albums with your digital photos.
Grab it here: download page

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July 16th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Photography · Software

Windows XP got you down?

Never fear, The Elder Geek is here. Good site to help you through those Windows XP woes.

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July 16th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: System Help

Spell check in Firefox 0.9

I’ve finally found a spell checker that works in Firefox 0.9. SpellBound is working just fine for me in Firefox 0.9 on Windows XP.

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July 16th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Firefox

WordPress guides to the rescue

Check out these WordPress guides for all kinds of helpful information about setting up and customizing WordPress. Included are the following;
WordPress CSS Guides
WordPress FTP Guides
WordPress phpMyAdmin Guide
WordPress Quicktags Guide

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July 15th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Web Dev

Learning CSS

Cascading Style Sheets make designing websites and maintaining a consistent look much more bearable. Here’s a good introductory guide to learning CSS.

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July 13th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

folderblog - simple photo blogging

folderblog looks like a simple handy PHP driven set of scripts that will allow you to integrate photo blogging or an image gallery into your site. It automatically displays images placed in a given subdirectory.

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July 8th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Blogging · PHP · Photography