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Wordpress
I've now installed Wordpress at wonderful dreams.
It was remarkably straight-forward.
1, Order a MySQL database from BCN
2, Download Wordpress as a zipped file & unzip
3, Read the instructions. Realise that the only thing needed I needed to alter before I uploaded Wordpress was the wp-config.php file with various bits of data.
4, Get hopelessly confused as to where to look to work out what the database is called/whether I need to create a new database. Get pointed at phpMyAdmin and realise that I've already got all the information I need. The database is called what I asked for it to be called when I created it in step (1).
5, Insert database name, username, password & leave the host details alone in the config file. Upload it and try to install it. It can't find the database. For once my intuition worked properly - the host isn't localhost, it's mysql.blackcatnetworks.co.uk Try to install it again. It can find the database this time round, but the username I used didn't have sufficient privileges to do all that it needed to do, so swap it for the admin one and the whole thing works! Yay.
Building on my success at installing Wordpress, I went on a general 'let's go round and check for updates to stuff'. I've now installed v 2.0.0.4 of Firefox. Session Saver doesn't work with it (so I've had to manually put my browsing tabs back together) and it's 'improved' on the previous version, instead of allowing me to have 15-20 tabs open and all visible at the top of the page, I can only have 10 visible and then there's an internal scrolling thing to get to the others. I'm sure I'll get used to this, but it wasn't a feature I wanted. I could always tell which of my tabs was which (without a visible title) because they were opened in a specific order and I just knew which one was which.
It was remarkably straight-forward.
1, Order a MySQL database from BCN
2, Download Wordpress as a zipped file & unzip
3, Read the instructions. Realise that the only thing needed I needed to alter before I uploaded Wordpress was the wp-config.php file with various bits of data.
4, Get hopelessly confused as to where to look to work out what the database is called/whether I need to create a new database. Get pointed at phpMyAdmin and realise that I've already got all the information I need. The database is called what I asked for it to be called when I created it in step (1).
5, Insert database name, username, password & leave the host details alone in the config file. Upload it and try to install it. It can't find the database. For once my intuition worked properly - the host isn't localhost, it's mysql.blackcatnetworks.co.uk Try to install it again. It can find the database this time round, but the username I used didn't have sufficient privileges to do all that it needed to do, so swap it for the admin one and the whole thing works! Yay.
Building on my success at installing Wordpress, I went on a general 'let's go round and check for updates to stuff'. I've now installed v 2.0.0.4 of Firefox. Session Saver doesn't work with it (so I've had to manually put my browsing tabs back together) and it's 'improved' on the previous version, instead of allowing me to have 15-20 tabs open and all visible at the top of the page, I can only have 10 visible and then there's an internal scrolling thing to get to the others. I'm sure I'll get used to this, but it wasn't a feature I wanted. I could always tell which of my tabs was which (without a visible title) because they were opened in a specific order and I just knew which one was which.
Session Saver
(Anonymous) 2007-06-03 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/internet/firefox/quick-tip-disable-firefox-tab-scrolling/ has some tips on changing the behaviour of the scrolling tabs.
Baldy
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I'm a big fan of saved sessions and non-scrolling tabs, too. I finally found a set of plugins for Firefox that make it behave like Opera, which pleased me immensely (I'm a big fan of Opera), because there are other plugins (Web Developer, Tamper Data, Google Reader Notifier, Color Picker, MeasureIt, etc.) that I use daily and that Opera just doesn't do.