I run a sports blogging site. It’s based on the Wordpress Multi-user. It was actually my introduction to all things wordpress. It was also my introduction to PHP, MySQL and a whole host of other stuff. Trust me, this isn’t the ideal way to learn how to admin a blog. I was stupid and overconfident. [...]

If you haven’t already read Tech Sanity Check, download the PDG here. Pay attention to number 6
Your nontechnical coworkers will use you as personal tech support for their home PCs.
Yup, I’m there right now. Everyone who knows anything about tech knows and understands this. Most of my holidays, cookouts, parties, et al. are spent repairing [...]

When ever someone asks me to build a web site for them, I generally do my best to get out of it. It’s not that I don’t want to build their site. It’s not that I don’t want to maintain the site. I just don’t want to charge them for it… To the people who [...]

I work for a school district, so I get a lot of odd questions. A client - err coworker - needed help with a mailing list and her organization’s @bellsouth.net account. Having worked there before, I knew that what she wanted was impossible. Their mail server ‘mail.bellsouth.net’ can handle emails in 200 round bursts. But [...]

i’ve set up, built, designed - whatever you wanna call it - 4 or 5 dozen Wordpress based sites/blogs. And I was thinking the other day on how I do it. I’ve come up with a process.
I Use cPanel for everything I can get away with. Whether its Fantastico or Simple Scripts, always install Wordpress [...]