wget and then clean up links in php website

I am helping a friend set up a wordpress website. She found a website that she like the structure and look of. I wanted to capture the site including links and each individual page as a reference for what she likes and how to build the site for her. I won’t copy it, but I…

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a dreamhost review

Four stars… Mostly good. Glitches are few and they are far between. They are better by far than Hostgator. Hostgator squats on the https side of your domain, advertising on it. If you want that side of your domain clean, you have to pay them to stop by setting up https. Dreamhost does not, the…

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testing Crosspress (plugin)…

One of the issues with social sites, networking and the co-mingling of work and life – I can have several different “sites”, but I will never have the time to work with all of them. I will update this blog. I won’t necessarily ever get around to its copy on blogger. IF I can update…

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moved, left forwarding address…

…sort of. My ISP fixed the DNS flaw. In doing so, they managed to stop caching ANY DNS results and slowed every action from within my local network to a crawl. This lasted for about nine days. Aaaarggggg. Tech support or any kind of customer service from Verizon is a nightmare. So are they all,…

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two bugs…

I fixed two bugs in this site design… The first was a failed comments function. The “Submit Comment” button failed to submit any actual comments. I hadn’t tested it. I was looking through google’s picture of the website, and found google complaining that /comments/feed (the rss url for comments) didn’t exist… OK, I can fix…

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the engineer

I was searching for an image to put at the top of the page on this weblog – I searched for engineer. I figured I would find a triangle and a compass, something engineer-like – perhaps a slide rule… And I found… this. The engineer as superhero? Outstanding. I found this comic book at daraja.com…

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new design…

UPDATE 20181003 Wednesday… Genesis Framework and Child Themes from StudioPress. Extremely easy to customize, responsive design with beautiful mobile presentations. I get bored every 2 – 5 years and redesign and tweak. This makes that doable, without relearning everything from scratch.     This is very old… Like beginning of the internet old. -Ish, anyway….

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