In the past few years we have tried many hosting companies with a mixture of results. Unfortunately poor quality of hosting / support forced us to keep moving. Finding Wired Tree was a real boon as it helped stabilise our hosting environment and we are very happy to recommend their services. Features of Wired Tree. […]

Changing stored passwords using Firefox browser is fairly simple. For those with Windows PCs, see caveat at bottom. Click on Firefox  (top left) – then click on Preferences. Click on the ‘Security’ tab and click on the ‘saved passwords’ button on the bottom right. A new window will pop up (see below) – to see […]

Blogs are seeing increasing numbers of blog comment spam. This shouldn’t be encouraged. Signs of blog comment spam: Name is not a real name, but a commercial product – The URL link is to a commercial site. The comment is vague and could apply to any posting on the internet. “Hey nice blog, very informative, […]

With wordpress it is always advisable to backup your database, and not just rely on your hosting company to have a backup. However, I have had experience where for some reason uploading database doesn’t work quite as it should. As a triple back up, you can export your blog as an XML file. This offers […]

If you have a typographical correction for the Sri Chinmoy Library, you can create an issue report here.

"Don’t Make Me Think" is a book about designing websites by Steve Krug. I only read it very briefly but liked the essence of his book. Inspired by this book and other sources here are a few ideas for designing sites. 1. First Impressions Count:  People’s attention span is very short, especially on the internet.If […]

We have recently moved our Drupal and WordPress repositories to git. We will also be putting our databases and static site filesystems there too, so we can generate test sites locally with a simple script. Here’s how to get started with developing sites: Installing and configuring Git Mac OS X: Go to download page and […]