Category: Blogging

I intend to do the move in three stages:- Export and download the current site – files and DB Prepare the new platform Upload and Import the content and DB Alter domain details to point to the correct nameservers Simple…I hope First up Satiricalblog.com – which on first look at the admin section reminds me…

WordPress migration to a new host – Part 1
The time has arrived where the old EUK hosting package I’m on is no longer big enough for all the work/interest/plans ahead. Their upgrade plans just didn’t give me what I needed going forward, namely:- SSH acces git unlimited space and websites ruby on rails So having looked around 1&1 seemed on balance the best…

Moving time…
Updates becoming sparse again so I need to up my output and get the discipline back…not that I’ve been idle. I’ve been working on satiricalblog.com and coming up with a new layout that is just about ready – the next step looking at freshening up the content and then advertising it more widely. The idea…
One of my biggest frustrations with WordPress has been the amount of times that, at seemingly random times, I would get a completely blank screen. Now a little research, and enabling debug messages, turned up that this was typically due to various plugins overloading the php memory limit. The mighty google thre up a few solutions,…

fixing the WordPress white screen of death
For no other reason than I’m developing an appreciation for country music…or more specifically Bluegrass music. Strange how your tastes change as you get older….

I think I’m getting old
Sunday Sunday, well as weeks go it’s been fairly good… I’m back into blogging – back drawing – back working towards hitting a few goals. However, the highlight has to be Isaac picking his first strawberry from the garden:- So all good! I think the aim for the coming week is to sort out the…

Sunday…
So Wednesday I had one of those moments when the perfect song came on at the perfect moment. Complete serendipity… But my memory for songs is nothing like Mr Bradshaw’s and I wasn’t quick enough with shazam which left me in a dilema. So this song has been bugging me for days disco/funky/house….all about love……

Finally found the song that’s been bugging me…
Well that isn’t strictly true. I’ve finally hit on a perfect theme for satiricalblog.com and so have made the move to port it over to wordpress. So hopefully soon I can get back to drawing – certainly there is enough going on in the world. Oh and I started a few ‘1 second everyday’ films…

A night of not much…
It seems today has been brought to me by the number 1. From the events of 11.11 this morning to stumbling across 1second-everyday. So 1SE got me thinking (again) about how I need to get back into blogging (again) and it might be a nice quick way to track things in this my 40th year.…

11.11
Before getting into the nitty gritty of applying CSS it’s worth taking some time to understand the HTML structure of the page in _s. Conceptually I always think of an HTML page as a series of boxes each nested inside one another – each having a unique name with different types of boxes sharing characteristics.…

Underscores step by step – Step 3, HTML layout