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Twitter Updates for 2009-01-23

David Fuller — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:59:59 +0000

Red lanterns in chinatown lloks great #
Going to write today off. Some japanese food and a movie I think. #
So. Bluehost is up again – for some. But now another problem on my box. No ETA. Total downtime today 7.5 hours. #
Server status at Bluehost says all okay but site still timing out. Wasted day. 3 projects that have hosted CMS with no work done. #
Seems Bluehost would do well to use twitter to communicate their problems. Would get rid of the 52 people waiting on hold. #
Some say that all applications will run in the cloud. But days like today, when a server goes down for over 5 hours suggests otherwise. #
@rscibetti Could be. Try this link http://serverstatus.bluehost.com/ in reply to rscibetti #
Bluehost Update: “Heat issues in H – Shutting down server until this is taken care of.” Not really useful. #
@ThierryRoget Actually I have been pretty impressed, this is the first time I have had problems in a year. in reply to ThierryRoget #
Bluehost server down – all my websites and mail not working. Grrr.. has been an hour and a half already. #

Playing with Word Press

David Fuller — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:00:09 +0000

For those of you who look at dmfreedom.com regularly, you will notice a recent relaunch. Just to keep my hand in and learn a couple of new things, I decided to use Word Press for the new site.

The functionality is quite rich and there are several hundred plugins to help with extra functionality. From a standing start I managed in 4 hours to create a site, choose and download a template, modify the template header to give my site a unique look, create several pages including a contact page with response form, blog feeds from other sites and a dynamic photo gallery with rollover effects and back end management functions.

Not bad for a someone new to it. I must say that the ‘simple scripts‘ service when offered with bluehost makes installation incredibly easy – just one click from the control panel.

The conclusion? For small simple sites of a couple of pages, this kind of system is the only way to go. Of course you have to be online, but you can still write copy offline and create imagery. No need for flat html, no need for clunky frontpage code. Nice clean sites that can be maintained.