Archive for May, 2009

How to Fix Funky Characters on Your Blog

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

Recently, wordpress changed the default encoding for MySQL databases used in self-hosted wordpress installations from Latin to UTF-8. It’s a smart move and makes wordpress databases adhere to web standards, but the change caused some blogs to display some funky characters, that …

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First Five Steps for a New WordPress Blog

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Lately I’ve been installing WordPress a lot as part of The 42nd Estate’s network of sites. I’ve developed a list of things to do after installing wordpress to a server. As a reference point for you and me, here are the …

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What is the Deal with Our Name?

Monday, May 4th, 2009

When meeting new clients or networking with other business owners and freelancers, the question of what our name means comes up often. We admit, it is a bit obtuse and references a geeky book that not everyone has read, so today we’ll …

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