Category: Techie Tricks
Avoid Sniffer Code – the safest way to search for new domains
Jump to the Bottom Line Several years ago, I wrote an eyewitness account about how I had personally witnessed a domain name that had never existed before – my rather naïve client had repeatedly searched and confirmed it was available without actually buying it – and then it was suddenly a…
The WordPress White Screen of Death — Don’t Panic!
About a month ago, all the admin sides of all WordPress sites I manage started displaying notices that WordPress 3.0 was available, please upgrade. I keep each site automatically backing up its own database, so I ploughed ahead, confident I could fix anything that could go wrong, even if I…
Recovering your site from hacker damage
In the last few months, I’ve been called upon several times to recover web sites from hacker damage. Two were WordPress sites , and one was a Joomla site that was repeatedly hacked. Some hacks are pretty funny — some teenager strutting his testosterone by replacing your front page with…
Translation Flags or Not Translation Flags
Although I live in Tucson, Arizona, and most people here expect that if you’re bilingual, you speak English and Spanish, the luck of my particular circumstances has enabled me to develop web sites for several individuals and groups who speak various Eastern European languages. Add on top of that a…
Avoid Sniffer Code – the safest way to search for new domains
Jump to the Bottom Line Several years ago, I wrote an eyewitness account about how I had personally witnessed a domain name that had never existed before – my rather naïve client had repeatedly searched and confirmed it was available without actually buying it – and then it was suddenly a…
The WordPress White Screen of Death — Don’t Panic!
About a month ago, all the admin sides of all WordPress sites I manage started displaying notices that WordPress 3.0 was available, please upgrade. I keep each site automatically backing up its own database, so I ploughed ahead, confident I could fix anything that could go wrong, even if I…
Recovering your site from hacker damage
In the last few months, I’ve been called upon several times to recover web sites from hacker damage. Two were WordPress sites , and one was a Joomla site that was repeatedly hacked. Some hacks are pretty funny — some teenager strutting his testosterone by replacing your front page with…
Translation Flags or Not Translation Flags
Although I live in Tucson, Arizona, and most people here expect that if you’re bilingual, you speak English and Spanish, the luck of my particular circumstances has enabled me to develop web sites for several individuals and groups who speak various Eastern European languages. Add on top of that a…