MelbourneIT reseller rant!

I am trying to transfer a customer’s web site over to my hosting service as painlessly as possible but have been thwarted by a MelbourneIT reseller! When there is a change of hosting providers, the domain name records must be updated to ‘point’ the domain name to the new host. Updating domain name records is […]

Need RAM!

My desktop PC is an old faithful but is getting a bit jaded.. it is about 5 years old and running like a dog sometimes on 256 MB RAM. Some new software I bought recently wont even run on less than 384 MB, so it is time for an upgrade. The finances at present don’t […]

Changing the default home page on Apache server

A client I visited the other week is transferring her web site to my server in the lead up to her new site being developed. I had to make a few little mods to make the old site work on my server because the homepage file has an unconventional filename. If you browse to a […]

Final stretch – personal coach site

This is one I’ve been working on intermittently the last couple of months – client is still in the process of compiling content but the bulk of it is done now – there is light at the end of the tunnel! This is the client with the Mac. The logo was designed by her graphic […]

Internet Explorer 5.x for Mac

Doing a web site for this client has been an extra challenge because she is on a Mac system, I’m on Windows. I’ve been using BrowserCam to see what the pages look like and uncovered a multitude of sins through Mac IE 5.2 – which my client happens to have. The CSS for Mac IE […]

Local cancer charity concert

Jo and I attended a local concert last night, comprised of mainly local acts – they put on a good show. We went mainly to catch Kirsti Falconer’s act, she was quite good although there is a dark and tragic tone to her music which I wasn’t really in the mood for. She played a […]