When trying to start my server in SQL Server Configuration Manager as usual, I got the message: “The request failed or the service did not respond in a timely fashion. Consult the event log or…
So I wanted a vertical menu on www.kellsbaycomputing.com that just lists the pages (of which there are only two). This is a simple website. I don’t want it to look fancy, I just want it…
Read this: Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant. No, just read it.
SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is a priority for every website. I am now looking at SEO options in Joomla! One of the most obvious is in the Global Configuration Site tab: SEO Settings – Search…
I love Artisteer. Really I do. But I just spent half an hour trying to figure out why my horizontal Artisteer menu didn’t style properly in Joomla 1.5. I previewed the template and decided that…
So my WordPress love affair lasted about an hour. Then I spent a good while trying to figure out why comments were disabled on all my shiny new WordPress posts. There’s a global setting for…
Newsflash: now that I have some idea what I’m doing, it took about ten minutes to install WordPress and copy three static pages over from Joomla! It turns out that you don’t have to explicitly…
I could keep running speed tests all day, but I am actually supposed to be implementing a blog here. The test results were not conclusive. Even if there had been huge differences, both CMSs have…
DISCLAIMER: These tests were undertaken in a spirit of slapdash curiosity and are not scientific. Speed test websites were chosen by grabbing whatever looked interesting from a Google search. If this subject is of vital…
Creating a WordPress version of the site was easy. I’ve now been working on it for seven and a half minutes, in which time I’ve installed WordPress and made copies of each of my three…