OT: Technology and Geek Stuff Thread

[Malto Marko]

Why don't you just tell him, Hey, you know I am in IT, right?

You know I am going to find out......is there anything I should know about your past?

.......and see how that works out.......

If he doesn't call you again, you probably are better off.

[Cody_Russell]

Very good.

John Oliver Goes Off On An Epic, Fact-Checked, Mic-Dropping Rant For 13 Minutes That You Need To See

http://www.upworthy.com/john-oliver-goes-off-on-an-epic-fact-checked-mic-dropping-rant-for-13-minutes-that-you-need-to-see?c=ag

[LionsFanInJapan]

Yeah, it's pretty important.

[Marko69]

"Preventing cable company fuckery" Very good.

That guy is quite good......, reminds me of 80s/90s Ben Elton.

[LionsFanInJapan]

Did you see the Tony Abbott one, Marko?

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3IaKVmkXuk"]Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): Tony Abbott, President of the USA of Australia - YouTube[/ame]

[Marko69]

^^ ^^

[unknown lions fan]

Mark, did you ever get your website rebuild under way? Wondering what you thought about Wordpress as your platform...

I've been working with it a lot lately helping out a friend, so if you have any questions I can probably help you out.

[Fraquar]

John Oliver is pretty good.

[Malto Marko]

Mark, did you ever get your website rebuild under way? Wondering what you thought about Wordpress as your platform...

I've been working with it a lot lately helping out a friend, so if you have any questions I can probably help you out.

Yes I have.

I had a bit of a pause because my new laptop had to go back to have a mechanical problem fixed.

#3 Son set up the site (which I did three times before he did but got frustrated because I could not figure out how to get the results I was looking for).

With the help of a few tutorials, I am at the foundation stage and getting ready to build the castle.

If I run into a problem that Technodude (#3 son) can not solve, I will send out a help line.

.....so far I love it when I can figure out how to do what I want.

[unknown lions fan]

Whenever you come across something you want to do, check for plugins. There's a ton of them.

[Malto Marko]

Understood!

[Trickalicious]

:::Absolute rookie alert:::

I would like to work on a layout for a business web site. Is there anywhere that I can get one started, take my time, build, add, edit, design, change, and generally mess around for free until it is time to "turn it on"?

[edindetroit]

Re: OT: Technology and Geek Stuff Thread

:::Absolute rookie alert:::

I would like to work on a layout for a business web site. Is there anywhere that I can get one started, take my time, build, add, edit, design, change, and generally mess around for free until it is time to "turn it on"?

Take a look at squarespace use the offer code TWIT for 10% off.

[Trickalicious]

Take a look at squarespace use the offer code TWIT for 10% off.

Nice one. TWIT charged me 10% more.

[unknown lions fan]

Trick, the best thing to do in that developmental stage is to run it on your own PC using XAMPP.

It creates your own web server on your PC, complete with Apache and a MYSQL database. You do all of your work on /localhost/myappname.html and when it's ready you can load it up to a paid hosting service.

Lots of advantages to doing it this way - you have more control over the server's settings, for example, you can set your error checking higher to help debug your code.

You'll get to test your app in a web browser as you build.

It's how I'm doing all of my development.