After the adventures that I had a few weeks ago trying to install XAMPP and WAMP5, having to manually edit the config files, and still not being able to get either of them to work, I decided to have another go - this time with separate installs for Apache, PHP, mySQL, and phpMyAdmin.
The individual installs [...]

After two weeks without internet access I managed to arrange with the insurance company to obtain a new ADSL modem so as to get my internet connection working again at the end of last week. I have just spent a large part of the weekend attempting to catch up with some of the things that [...]

As I still have internet access issues I have only added one page to the main site this week.
The issue of web safe colours has been around since the start of the web. In this article I try to explain what it is all about and why I think web safe colour selection is no [...]

Yet another area of the site that doesn’t get added to much is the Graphics section which has some information on PhotoShop and Paint Shop Pro as well as some more general information about graphics.
When I find the time I may consider adding a section on either Irfanview or the GIMP for people who prefer [...]

Another new template has been added to the Silver Templates section of the member’s area. This one contains six different colour variations combining the backgrounds and borders template with the photo gallery template allowing for photo gallery pages to be created that will match the appearance of other pages that use the backgrounds and borders [...]

As well as word processing, there is also a separate section on the site covering desktop publishing (DTP). This section covers PageMaker and Acrobat.
Desktop Publishing

Another of the categories on the site that is being somewhat neglected is that covering the word processing programs - Microsoft Word, Wordperfect, and Star/Open Office. There are a few useful pages of information in this section of the site and plenty of room for lots more pages to be added on those topice. All [...]

I am still waiting for the insurance to be sorted out regarding all the equipment that I had damaged during a storm on 27th October. Until that happens I am limited in the updates that I can do on the web site and have a growing bbacklog of emails waiting for replies.
Until such time as [...]