Installing Joomla and Wordpress on a localhost with XAMPP

Posted in Web Stuff on June 11th, 2009 by Lazarus

Working with text files or Dreamweaver on a static page site means you get to tweak, preview and amend your pages before uploading the finished article to the web. With dynamic sites and content management systems this can be a little trickier because they require more than just a browser to read and render the html/css code you’ve put together. Read more »

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Thoughts on Wordpress after a week’s use

Posted in Web Stuff on June 6th, 2009 by Lazarus

Well Im standing in the kitchen cooking jalfrezi and blogging in Word 2007 while listening to BBC 6 music (funk and soul show) streaming wirelessly over real player on my laptop and I cant help but think that modern technology is cool ;)

We’ll see if this post goes into the right category of ‘web stuff’ – currently trying to figure out how to insert a ‘read more’ divider in this document – already one advantage Windows Live Writer has because its on the tool bar visible at all times. Read more »

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Joomlapack backup and restore

Posted in Web Stuff on June 4th, 2009 by Lazarus

Joomlapack is a component that you can install into your Joomla web site that enables fast and simple site backups and restoration. Download it from www.joomlapack.net and install it into your joomla site by logging into the back end administration section and going to the Extensions/uninstall install menu. Read more »

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hmmm templates

Posted in Web Stuff on June 3rd, 2009 by Lazarus

XHTML and CSS pages/Dreamweaver templates are farily straighforward but it took me a week to work out how to build joomla templates as they are made up of XML and php files aswell and there are a lot less files involved than with wordpress Read more »

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Start of much work

Posted in Web Stuff on June 2nd, 2009 by Lazarus

Well here I go again.

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