View from the Dock

So, I freshened up the site a bit this weekend. Why? The previous design just felt too heavy, dense and modular for my taste. I think the new design is much lighter and more aesthetically pleasing. I thinned some fonts, balanced out the colors, and added some organic shapes. It’s not perfect, but I think [...]

Apple launched a new site yesterday featuring text and video help for new Mac users. It’s got me thinking about the many, many Mac-centric sites out there — the bulk of indie sites (like this one) tend to be geared towards fellow Mac geeks or, at least, those readers who are more tech-inclined.
As people migrate [...]

I discovered the solution to the WordPress registration problem. You will now receive an email with your chosen user name and password when you subscribe to this site. The problem is with the last WordPress upgrade (2.3.1). With some hosts (including Bluehost, my host), this upgrade broke the auto-generated email. I don’t know why, but [...]

It just came to my attention that subscribers to this site are not receiving confirmation emails with their user name and password, which is pretty frustrating. And it may explain why no new comments have appeared for quite some time! I am trying to isolate the problem and apologize to those of you who attempted [...]

I’ve posted the screenshots, as promised, to illustrate how you can migrate your WordPress installation from one host to another. In this case, I moved this site from 1&1 to Bluehost. The screenshots detail how to export your MySQL database from on host and import it to your new host location.

I had two problems with this website over the weekend. First, I was unable to view or send files to this site for over 48 hours. I was able to see my files via the online ‘control panel’ of my web host. However, I could not connect using HTTP (viewing from a web browser) or [...]