Cloning a Wordpress Site

These are the basic steps for cloning a WordPress site. In this example, I assume your source web server is your live site on your web hosting and your target web server is your local development web server. Try to keep the same directory name and database name to keep things simple.

Backup all of the [...]

June 22, 2010 | In Web Development | No Comments

Pages not printing in Firefox

While redesigning this site, I incorporated a new print style sheet. During the process I discovered a feature in Firefox when printing a web site. Basically, if you have the overflow: hidden CSS attribute set, then it could prevent Firefox from printing all pages from the web site.
So, if you notice that you are only [...]

June 19, 2010 | In Web Development | No Comments

“Stuck” Windows Key in Remote Desktop

Every now and then, the Windows key (one between CTRL + ALT on left side of the keyboard or ALT and CTRL on right side of keyboard) can get stuck in remote desktop sessions.
You’ll know it is happening when typing certain letters that lead to a windows shortcut key combination effect, e.g:

Typing B -> Winkey [...]

June 18, 2010 | In General | No Comments

Equally aligning images in CSS

Equally aligning a row of images so they are equal distances apart with the first image being flush left and the last image being flush right, is actually a lot harder than you would think! Eventually, I turned to Google and came across the solution at CSS tricks.
I’d actually tried the first two approaches described [...]

June 17, 2010 | In Web Development | No Comments

Web Site Redesign

Welcome to the redesigned site!
I created this new layout from scratch, starting with a photoshop mock up and turning it into a Wordpress theme. Hope you like it.
In addition to the layout changes, there have also been some minor changes made to the site including:

Change of base URL from blog.praj.com.au to www.praj.com.au
All permalinks are now [...]

June 14, 2010 | In General | 4 Comments
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