Archive for November, 2009
htaccess: Redirect, Rewrite, and Relax
Being a sysadmin is no picnic – you’re constantly called on to assess and fix problems that vary widely. Learning .htaccess won’t solve everything, but it’s a pretty versatile solution. It allows you to override a server’s global configuration to accomplish specific tasks without changing settings server-wide.
Moreover, whatever task you want to accomplish will be done every time, since the configurations are inherited and modified by the subdirectories. It’s the Showtime Rotisserie Gold of code – set and forget it.
We’ve polled our systems wizards to find out their
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Setting Up Email On Your Mobile Device With cPanel
We’re edging ever closer to an always-on world, so good luck leaving your work at the office. That’s why you need to set up your mobile email the right way – so you stay connected when you need to. Follow the steps below for a quick and painless set-up, and start getting email on your mobile device.
1. Find your account’s specific email settings using cPanel:
Log into your site’s cPanel, click Email Accounts, and select Configure Mail Client on the right hand side under the Functions menu. This page lists
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5 Free Simple and Clean WordPress Themes
In our busy world, sometimes a person just wants to slow things down and look back to a simpler time. Of course, we can’t get rid of technology — we wouldn’t want to, anyway — but we can at least make it look simple. We think that the future of web design is heading this way — clean and functional. Get rid of the frills and flourishes, we say, and keep it simple.
For this week’s installment of “Theme Thursday,” we present five simple and clean WordPress themes for your downloading pleasure. Enjoy!
12 Web Design Trends That Should Die With The Decade
Our world, technologically-speaking, has changed dramatically over the past decade. We carry phone/computers in our pockets; we carry around entire music libraries that we might have paid for; we sit in coffee shops while we communicate with coworkers thousands of miles away – the last days of 2009, in short, look nothing like the first days of 2000. Except occasionally on the Internet, that is…
Ah, the Web – where the design mistakes of the decade live on eternally (or at least until someone stops renewing the hosting account). We used to think that if it looked cool, it was worth
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Linux Command Line Tips And Tricks
All developers and sysadmins who work in a Linux environment are familiar with the following scenario – you’re at the command prompt and you know exactly what you’re trying to do, but you just can’t think of (or find) the right commands to accomplish the task in one fell swoop. Frustrated, you pound your way through four steps, finally accomplishing the task that you know you could have taken care of in one step – if only you had known the right step.
Luckily for you, we’ve gathered together our brightest Linux minds and command line ninjas and asked them to
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