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Overcoming blankcanvasphobia

Heard on MacRumors:

CompUSA To Shut Down

If you have one still open near you, hurry in and get what’s left on inventory clearance. Good luck!

Read this over at Quick Online Tips:

http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2007/12/dreamhost-stops-97-discount-promo-codes/

So the promo codes are capped at $50, but the affiliate program is $97.  OK, good!

Thanks to Quick Online Tips for this info.  I never read my DH newsletters 

Big Stock Photo is having a sale of $40 in free images, IF you order 100 credits.  This naturally is only for the big guys:

Few things in life bring more holiday joy to a web programmer than an awesome BookPool sale.  O’Reilly titles are 50% off.  Enjoy.

Everything at Webassist.com is on 50% off sale, like DreamWeaver extensions.  This includes my favorite, Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor.  Run! hurry! shop! Fuel the economy!!

Happy holidays.

I now have a small collection of tools and tips for designers and evelopers, so I’m going to use this blog to promote odd tips - tools to help with graphics, sales at various shops with effective tools and so on.  Keep watch - I’m going to try to get the first couple of things started NEXT WEEK.

I never post, but I could NOT resist THIS one:

How to Shoot Yourself In the Foot Using Any Programming Language

I’m especially fond of the one about CSS…

I had this trouble the last few days with my Mom-Blog. You see, I was redesigning to put an entry into the Wordpress Sandbox theme competition. If you’re a nut for valid CSS like me and like total control, Sandbox is the theme for you. It’s completely blank and ALL control is styled through the CSS.

So I designed my lovely theme and kept losing it when I’d wake up in the morning. At first, I thought it was a URL error, after being fine for 2 days, it had issues again when I was tweaking.

So I googled it, and found out this is an error caused by the WP-Mobile plugin.

Which would be great, IF I was using that. Then I discovered that the more I uploaded the files through FTP RATHER than through theme editor, the more this happened. So I cleared out everything and re-uploaded my theme from scratch, then made sure to only PASTE in the style changes through the editor.

When I woke up this morning, it was still there. Let’s hope it stays!

UPDATE: It was resetting again, so I manually deleted the white spaces and that worked. Yay!

As reported on the site Go PHP 5, many PHP developers across the Web have decided not to support PHP4 as of February, 2008, so that they can move on ahead and make better products using PHP5.2. In addition, PHP6 is coming down the line and there is only so much support developers can handle. Some of these include major popular services , like Drupal and Gallery.

Programs written on PHP4 may have difficulty or errors running on PHP5.  Thus it is crucial to be updated to the latest versions of those programs.   What does this mean for your customers? It means you need to take a look at which of the programs on the list at Go PHP 5 your clients are running.  In fact, you may want to check softwares that are not on the list if your clients are running them and find out if they are PHP5-ready.  You will also need to take a look at their hosting services to see when and if they are upgrading to PHP5, if they have done so already.

This is a very good opportunity to improve your customers’ Web services. Perhaps they are long past due for an upgrade, or are not up to date on backups. In addition, if a host is not upgrading, perhaps it is time they moved off of that host.

Part of my job is bridging the gap so that my clients’ sites can run more effectively and efficiently with minimal interruption, so that they barely notice. Take the time to review your clients one by one and contact them. They don’t need to know all the technical details, but they should be aware that you are working to improve how they get their message out to customers.