I have decided to have another look. Here are my notes, since re-factoring the old page seems a bit of a chore. And now part three, I may need to rebuild the OS image from scratch.
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PHP, 1and1 and (most) of my webspace
I had to upgrade the PHP versions on my 1and1 domain systems. I am now on 7.2. I used the 1and1 control panel. Here are my other notes including the fact that I have replaced the A-Z index plugin. This was written in 2019. …
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HMRS
It seems I have not yet created a wiki page on HRMS software products. Here is what I have said, and here are some notes.
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Umbraco CMS
I need to help appraise an Umbraco project. Here are some links I find useful.
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A carousel slider
I installed wp logo showcase plugin on another blog and need to uninstall it, so I have copied it across to here. Below/Overleaf there is a slide show.
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Local Government Web Sites
As part of my research into Lewisham’s Democracy Review I needed to look at web site design, UX/UI and usability because theirs is very poor. Here’s what I found about being good.
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A poll, using YOP Poll between Red & Blue [yop_poll id=1]
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Collaboration Tools
Having another thing about collaboration, and renewed my aquaintance with discuto and loomio. I also consider the big boys!
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Easy Index
While experimenting with YOP Poll, I came across Easy Index, which looked rather pretty, although it depends on on the featured images chosen. I made a category index to see how it looked. This might be better if one of the first plugins chosen as it would allow you to chose the featured images more…
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Polling in WordPress
I checked out YOP Poll this evening; a wordpress polling plugin. Here are my notes.
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Flickr Slide Shows
This page documents my use of widgets, HTML and plugins to display flickr slide shows on my blogs. As at August 2021, I am using wordpress plugins see below/overleaf or on the blog wordpress now support flickr URLs with a native embed. I just have to paste the URL. Here are my notes, developed over…
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Flash
It won’t go away! How to display an alternate image for one’s flash object. Actually I gave up, I decided that the browser default was more informative but here’s my notes.
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Redshift
Sun CTO Greg Papadoupolos, in the late noughties posited that the growth in IT spend was going to come from those applications (or installations) that would grow faster than Moore’s Law and that this growth had significant implications for systems designers.
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WordPress in the Cloud
WordPress is famously available at wordpress.com as Software-as-a-Service. What should one do if one comes to the conclusion that this isn’t what you need? The two obvious solutions are one of the cloud providers and I should say I personally use one&one for various reasons.
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DaaS
I was thinking about DaaS and how to use RDP to access a modern desktop from my Tablet and my thoughts moved to Azure although I have not given up on AWS. In fact, I will be faster with AWS and actually have an account. Here’s the links and reading …
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