Setting up Dreamweaver and Nvu to recognize your server

• February 19, 2006
• James Skemp

Now that we've setup Apache on our local computer, and effectively created a basic Web server, it's time to look at setting up some popular programs to work with these sites. I'll be looking at two programs, the costly Dreamweaver (8) and the free Nvu (1.0).

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Creating additional testing sites in Apache, on a local Windows computer

• February 18, 2006
• James Skemp

It may happen that you'd like to test multiple sites on one machine. There's a number of ways to do this. Following our previous tutorial, Installing Apache to a Windows-based computer, locally, we can either dump additional folders in our Apache root, or we can create additional subdomains under localhost.

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Installing Apache to a Windows-based computer, locally

• February 16, 2006
• James Skemp

In this tutorial, we'll be walking through the installation of Apache 1.3 to an average home computer running Windows XP, Home Edition (SP1). Anyone running an average home computer, with a newer version of Windows, like XP, should be able to follow these steps and have an installation of their own. Older versions of Windows, like 98 and Me, should also be able to handle an installation, although some steps may differ slightly.

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OpenOffice is still a processing hog

• February 7, 2006
• James Skemp

I like OpenOffice, I do. I think that OpenOffice is where things are heading in the future.

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January 2006 browser statistics

• February 1, 2006
• James Skemp

In January, looking at the number of pages that were viewed, around 63% of visitors used Internet Explorer to access a page on the StrivingLife.net Network, while 26% used Firefox.  After that, about 3.5% used Safari, followed by 2.9% using Mozilla and 2.2% using Opera.  Netscape?  1.4%. Of course, the Firefox numbers give it away pretty well - we cater to a more technologically literate group than the Internet as a whole.

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Great PHP and MySQL tutorial

• November 5, 2005
• James Skemp

There's a great tutorial over at http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/phpmysql detailing how to use PHP with MySQL. I worked through this tutorial, along with a couple of others, to setup a pretty simple PHP script. I'll be adding to it for a new gallery (as the old one is too bulky ... ).

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Free file comparision in Dreamweaver

• October 31, 2005
• James Skemp

I found a great post at http://angelo.mandato.com/blog/?p=39, regarding a free file comparision utility for Dreamweaver / Windows, called WinMerge (winmerge.org).

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Personalize WordPress and save yourself a headache

• October 20, 2005
• James Skemp

Did you know:

If you do a search on Google for "Powered by [WP]" (where [WP] is WordPress), you'll end up with over 25.3 million returned results?

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Experiments with PDFs

• October 15, 2005
• James Skemp

I like PDFs. While a number of individuals will attack PDFs with blanket statements, PDFs are a great way to allow users to print documents from the Internet as intended.  So, instead of printing off a Web page and losing 10 to 20 characters from the right-side, you can print off a document formatted specifically for printers. Of course, if you use them as the sole content delivery method, you may run into issues.

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StrivingLife.net network popularity

• October 7, 2005
• James Skemp

As I said this morning, site popularity can be determined by how many people are viewing the content, and how many people are using the content.

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