Tazmon.com » Web Development

New Website Layout

Taz — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:18:17 +0000

Well I decided to upgrade my website to WordPress 3.0 today. So far I really like a lot of the improvements I’ve seen so far.

Completed a WordPress theme conversion for MaslowProject.com

Taz — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:25:42 +0000

My younger brother works as a mentor and case worker at a non-profit organization in Souhern Oregon called, The Maslow Project which is dedicated to helping homeless youth. The director and founder recently whet to Washington DC to be given an award for the best organization in the country dedicated to helping homeless youth.

When my brother started working there they were looking for someone to pu together a website for them, I volunteered to do this for them.

Finished RainbowReaders.com

Taz — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:11:05 +0000

After working on the RainbowReaders website for over three years, It is finally finished!

I started this site for my mother before she retired as a school teacher. She through her teaching career she became an expert in teaching students with reading disabilities. She wanted to hqv a site where she could share some of her experience with other teachers with the end goal of helping struggling readers learn to read.

While teaching, my mom developed some new methods of teaching reading. The results of her programs won her international recognition. Most of the students she tried her methods on increased their reading level by two to three grade levels in only one year.

TokBox: The new face of Chat

Taz — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:34:45 +0000

I don’t remember how I found TokBox, but the other day I stumbled upon a link to it somewhere and I have to say, it is the greatest Chat/Video Chat program to hit the market since Skype.

All TokBox requires for use is an internet browser with Flash 10. For video, a webcam is also required. One of the coolest features in TokBox is the conference video calls, an option I’ve only seen previously in commercial software.

Another great thing about TokBox is that it is also a one stop location for all your chat needs. You can simultaneously be logged in to your AIM, Yahoo, MSN and Google Chat accounts. The combined user list is the best I’ve seen.

I’m hoping to be able to get my family to use this sometime so we can chat together in our spread-out locations in the world.

Check it out at www.tokbox.com

New Grid Hosting Account

Taz — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:50:28 +0000

Well today I setup a new hosting account with GoDaddy. I decided to try their Grid Hosting and so far… I’m impressed, it is a lot faster than my older premium hosting account with them. (It’s also quite a bit cheaper $5/month instead of $13/month) The setup seems to be similar and I have the same hosting options as before but I also have SSH available now!! WOOO HOOO!!!

Now comes the fun part, moving my sites from my other hosting accounts to this one. I had 4 separate hosting accounts (for different organizations) that I’ve been managing for a while, each in the GoDaddy shared hosting environment. And all 4 had speed issues. Sometimes they would work fast, sometimes a simple html file would take 3 minutes to load. All GoDaddy would tell me was that the database needed to be optimized. I’m sorry, but there is NO WAY that 10 tables with a total size of less than 1MB (a standard WordPress Install) would make a site load 10,000% slower. Sometimes I have a hard time refraining from what I want to say when people prove their stupidity…

I’ve completed the file transfer for one of my sites, Rainbowreaders.com, which is the most pressing right now. I did this site for my mother who is about to publish a book . As of right now, I have about 3 days until an add for her book comes out in some magazines and the add says go to this site for more information and to buy the book. I’m hoping I won’t let her down with this.