Category Archives: site maintenance

Upgrading Wordpress on Bluehost using Simple Scripts

having to sign a liability disclaimer (in this case, done by clicking a checkbox) before I could upgrade my installation of Wordpress on my website filled me with a sense of foreboding that quickly morphed into a full-blown cry of alarm.

Firefox working okay for me now

I remember complaining about frequent Firefox crashes back when I started this site. In particular, I was blaming the problem on FireFTP, as I recall.
I still haven’t re-installed FireFTP, since I’m still happy with Filezilla when I need ftp, but I can report that on the new Vista machine we have in our office, Firefox [...]

New theme rocks Health Spectator

I’ve been delighted to experiment with new themes to bring a splashier look to my more commercial site, Health Spectator. Although time-consuming, it is fun to search out full themes that may come close to the design concepts you originally had in mind for a site or a set of posts.
During the design phases of [...]

Back again—if briefly

Ah, there’s so much to report! By now, I’ve been away so long that anyone watching these pages has likely given up looking for new posts.
A death in the family, other examples of life—see our first post—and almost nothing goes as planned. Still, it’s all been exhilarating, and I find new things to write [...]

Filezilla will be my primary ftp client for the foreseeable future

If you’re maintaining websites and haven’t already tried Filezilla, download it now!
There are some great commercial products out there, such as WS_FTP Home and WS_FTP Pro. In fact, so far as I know, these are the gold standards for ftp client software. I’ve used them both and highly recommend them to anyone who has $39.95 [...]

Problems with newer versions of FireFTP and FireFox 2.x?

I’ve always been very happy with FireFTP, the ftp and website-management software that installs as an extension to Firefox. It’s completely intuitive, does what I need to do, and works as advertised.
Until recently.
I don’t know if the problem is that my Firefox installation has become bloated with all the new stuff I’ve downloaded for clipping [...]