Category Archives: Site Design

iTunes Smart Playlists

When I bought my first iPod I was still on Windows and the software delivered with the Windows iPods (yup, Windows specific iPods back then) was a version of MusicMatch. The software was OK, but just OK. It was slow and a pain to build playlists. One of the reasons I bought the hard disk [...]

Popularity: 11% [?]

IE Contributes To the Frustrating Journey

These past couple of days have reminded me why the tag line of this site is “A Frustrating Journey.” The first reminder was while working on an update to this site I thought everything was all set. FireFox, Safari and Camino (all on my Mac) liked the site and I was simply adding a widget [...]

Popularity: 17% [?]

SiteUpTime - Web Site Monitoring

I came across SiteUpTime.com which does web site monitoring, as the name implies. They offer a free plan which I just signed up for to monitor The OS Quest.
The free plan includes:

1 Monitor
30 or 60 minute check intervals
4 Monitoring Locations
Email Alerts
Monthly Reports
Online Statistics
Control Panel
Web Server Monitoring (http)
Email Server Monitoring (pop3)
Email Server Monitoring (smtp)
FTP Server Monitoring [...]

Popularity: 16% [?]

URL Redirection

Previously, I had installed Wordpress into a sub-directory called “/blog”. It seemed like a good idea at the time in case I wanted to build a website around the blog. But Wordpress ended up being the entire website CMS and I never needed more than Wordpress had to offer. So when I moved the website [...]

Popularity: 9% [?]

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