For the search engines to display something meaningful for your web page in their search results, your page needs to have a meaningful title and a brief description in the meta data. The eighth tutorial on how to use NVU looks at how we can access these fields in the page source via the WYSIWYG interface provided by NVU.
In the seventh tutorial on using NVU we finally look at what we need to do to start creating web pages based on the template that we have customised in the prior tutorials.
I have been unable to access the internet over the weekend as a storm on Friday afternoon has destroyed a number of electronic devices inside our house including the ADSL modem. It may take a couple of weeks to get it all sorted out. In the meantime I will attempt to do what updates I can via alternative means.
Over the last couple of years I have supplemented the help pages on the site by writing book reviews of a wide range of books on computer related subjects.
You can find links to all of the book reviews I have ever written listed at Book Reviews.
The JavaScript secion of the site has not been getting as many pages added to it in recent years as it did the first few years. There is a very good reason for this and that reason is that for the past three years I havve been responsible for providing all of the JavaScript content for the New York Times About.com web site.
While most of the pages that I write on JavaScript end up on javascript.about.com, there are still some web pages on JavaScript that end up added to the “Ask Felgall” site. In fact with all of the pages on JavaScript that were already there when I started writing for the NYT as well as the occasional page that has been added since, the JavaScript section is still one of the biggest on the site.
One relatively small section of the “Ask Felgall” web site is the section where I have PHP scripts for sale (everything else on the site is “free”).
These PHP scripts will greatly enhance the functionality of any web site that supports PHP (and for a couple of them - mySQL) in return for a very small one off charge. You even get free access to any upgraded version of the script for a full twelve months after you purchase it.
After spending several hours attempting to track down and fix all the errors in the various config files that XAMPP managed to totally stuff up (by inserting \ insead of / and leaving off drive letters), I still kept getting errors all over the place when trying to access web pages I copied there. As for phpMyAdmin, it absolutely refused to allow me to import any databases or run any SQL commands at all.
The next step was to uninstall the Apache and mySQL services from XAMPP and try an install of WAMP5 instead.
WAMP5 installed much easier than XAMPP did since it did not stuff up the config files. That saved me the time I had spent manually rebuilding the config files in XAMPP and got me to the same point with WAMP5 in tem minutes that it had taken over five hours to get to with XAMPP. Unfortunately the install was still corrupted in exactly the same way as the “repaired” XAMPP install was and still refused to allow me to run any SQL.
Over the weekend just gone I spent a rather annoying amount of time attempting to install XAMPPlite onto my Windows XP computer. The download of the self extracting file and running of that file to extract it all onto the D: drive of the computer ran without any errors. Rebooting and then opening a web browser and typing “localhost” into the address bar brought up the default web page without any problem.
That page suggested that the next thing to do was to click the “status” link so I did that. That is where I discovered the problem.
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