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Monday, 31 May 2010 09:00 | Written by Ian |

Help with your site

I provide competitively priced website services from complete site design, to help with specific technical aspects.

I have worked in the IT industry for over 30 years and have a broad range of technical experience covering programming, web technologies, virtual reality, multimedia and testing. I have now decided to retire from the corporate world to focus on helping individuals and smaller enterprises. Here are some of the things I could help with:

MySQL database design, implementation and administration
Content Management Systems (CMS) e.g. Joomla, Wordpress, Magnolia ...
Frameworks e.g. CakePHP
Programming in Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python, Javascript ...
XHTML and CSS
Website hosting

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igh-hosting services

Wednesday, 28 April 2010 12:20 | Written by Ian |

Value Hosting

I've just started to offer some flexible and affordable UK based hosting packages. They use 34SP.com facilities in modern high specification world class data centers.

These packages are designed for users who want a lot of features and control at a very low price. They are ideal for testing and experimenting, or running live websites that have lower bandwidth and storage requirements.

You get a minimum of 200MB storage with 500MB monthly transfer, 2 MySQL databases and 5 subdomains to play with. Administer your domain using a Plesk Control Panel.
You can use the 34SP script installers for Joomla, Wordpress and many other applications. Pay monthly or annually.

Put maths in your Joomla pages

Tuesday, 12 January 2010 00:00 | Written by Ian |

New MathPublisher plugin.
Writing maths (or math as they say in the US) formulae on a web page is not the kind of thing many people will be interested in, but occasionally it can be useful. The plugin works in articles, and optionally in JComments and Kunena forum entries.

I've used Christopher Smith's math2 plugin for DokuWiki before, and I liked it because it was simple, produced reasonably good looking results and I didn't need to learn about, or install LaTeX.

Like the "maths2" plugin for DokuWiki, MathPublisher uses phpMathPublisher by Pascal Brachet from http://www.xm1math.net/phpmathpublisher/ where you can find help for the syntax, try it out and see some examples.