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World Wide Web Consortium site gets face lift

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has recently updated the design of their site on www.w3.org It now uses a pleasant mix of blue and green with some shadows. For some reason, I particularly like the extra thick underlining used for the links.

For those of you who do not know what the W3C is, the following text from their site explains it:

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards

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Reverting to previous Postfix version due to bug #417530

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

I recently upgraded the Postfix mail server from 2.3.8 to 2.4.0 on a Debian linux server that has a 2.4 kernel due to other applications that it has. I always check the bug reports before upgrading packages but I obviously missed Debian bug #417530, whose summary is Fatal error: “epoll_create: Function not implemented” using kernel 2.4 and postfix 2.4. Normally Debian’s APT package management system contains all the dependencies but it did not contain a dependency on kernel 2.6 for the new epoll() function, which can improve network socket performance.

After upgrading Postfix I tried sending an email but Thunderbird gave an error message so I checked the syslog on the server and discovered the that the /var/log/syslog contained the following error message: postfix/master[24312]: fatal: epoll_create: Function not implemented I searched for Postfix bugs using the Debian bugs by package search plugin for Firefox.

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Great tool for creating links to CafePress

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

J Goode designs have created a free, web-based tool that makes it very easy for people to create links to CafePress articles; it is called the AP-Link Builder. They have some other interesting tools and their own great designs for CafePress at http://www.jgoodedesigns.com/
To quote their site, the features include:

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My Favourite Mozilla Firefox Add-ons

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

When I’m using a windows or linux computer then I normally use the Mozilla Firefox internet browser as I find it easier to use, extend, and customise than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. On my Mac I use Apple Safari and Firefox. Part of Firefox’s appeal is the large range of add-ons that are available that include plugins for handling different media types (music, video, images), extensions that add more functionality to the browser, search plugins that make it easy to use search engines from the toolbar, and the very useful inline spell checkers. Here are some of my favourite Add-ons.

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Coppermine Photo Gallery

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

I have just installed the Coppermine Photo Gallery on this site so we can show some photographs that we have taken of the Philippines and other places we have seen. You can access the gallery at http://www.villaver.org/gallery/ .

I discovered that it was very easy to add the Google Analytics code and Adsense adverts to Coppermine as the configuration options allow you to include custom code in the header and footer of every page. Here are some simple instructions:

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GeoPosition plugin added for Google Earth and Maps

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

I have installed the GeoPositions plugin that makes it easy for us to add links to Maps from Google Maps, Google Earth, MultiMap and MSN Local Live. For example:

  • Kidapawan, Philippines Google MapsGoogle EarthMultimap.comMSN Virtual Earth
  • Davao, Philippines Google MapsGoogle EarthMultimap.comMSN Virtual Earth
  • Manila, Philippines Google MapsGoogle EarthMultimap.comMSN Virtual Earth
  • Paris, France Google MapsGoogle EarthMultimap.comMSN Virtual Earth

Google Maps, MultipMap, and MSN Local Live are web-based. You will need to download Google Earth if you would like to use it.

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Added poster’s name to the blog entries

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

The default WordPress theme does not show the poster’s name, which we found annoying so, after some searching in Google, I discovered in the WordPress Codex that I just needed to add

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More about Google Analytics

Friday, October 20th, 2006

I have found a few useful sites and articles that help explain how to make the most of Google Analytics.

The WikiPedia article on Google Analytics is still fairly basic but it includes a short history and some links.

It was quite obvious how to add the Google Analytics JavaScript to the webpages that track the visitors but it was not clear how to track when visitors click links that leave the site. I discovered a Google help page that explained how to add a simple JavaScript function as an onClick() call in an HTML anchor to track outbound clicks and files that are downloaded.

I’m considering using MediaWiki to add a Wiki to this site, although I don’t need it yet. I discovered a page on stoltenow.com that explained how to add the Google Analytics JavaScript in one place to the skin: /wiki/skins/MonoBook.php

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Google blog links and services

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

I have added some Google blogs to the Blogroll that I find interesting and useful for maintaining and improving this website.

I use the free Google Analytics service to analyse the web traffic we get; it includes a great dashboard overview report that shows a map of where the site visitors are in the world. Google has a blog for their Analytics service at http://analytics.blogspot.com/

I have added Google Adsense adverts and referral links to the site to give visitors access to some useful services and products. I have deliberately made the adverts fairly unobtrusive so they do not distract your attention from the main content on each page.

The free Google Webmaster tools and the Google Webmaster Central blog give a very useful insight into how the GoogleBot crawls and analyses this website. You can see if there are any problems, how the content is served, change the crawl rate, and many other statistics. All this helps a webmaster improve a website.

Google Research keep finding interesting ways to analyse data and improve search technology, machine translation, and many other areas.

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