The blog of George Pearce
Posted in Tutorials on May 16th, 2008
A common problem after the upgrade to Vista Service Pack 1 is that the sound no longer works, and the sound manager shows the following message:
Sound Card Not Installed
While Microsoft has a knowledgebase page about this, it’s far from adequate, and in my experience, doesn’t work. (I’ve upgraded to SP1 recently).
The first step you [...]
If you’re serious about blogging with Wordpress, Permalinks are important. They change your blog sub-urls from how it’s shipped (something like ?p=3 ) to much prettier stuff, the format of which, you choose. Wordpress themselves wrote about it here, but some people feel it’s not simple enough. You must have an apache webserver for this to [...]
Posted in Tutorials on Feb 10th, 2008
Ok, well I can’t say I’m perfect. But I’m doing a damn site better than a lot of other bloggers I have seen, at least some of my pages get top rankings in Google :)
So, I decided to write a sort of tutorial in order to help the not-doing-so-well or brand new bloggers along the [...]
Posted in Tutorials on Jan 17th, 2008
Meta tags are essential for SEO and good search engine results. When done correctly, they can help to increase your placing in search engines, which in turn will increase your traffic, and then, probably, your income, either from advertising or sales. However, when they are done incorrectly, they can be the downfall of a website, [...]
Posted in Tutorials on Jan 2nd, 2008
Everyone knows that Wordpress has some pretty awesome SEO capabilities, it supports meta tags, mod_rewrite to give you nice URLs, and it supports an excellent plugin that would enable you to get every single page on your installation indexed by Google, or any other search engine, not just the ones with links to them. I’m [...]
Posted in Tutorials on Dec 31st, 2007
Friendly URL’s are nice. Nobody really likes copying or trying to type urls likehttp://yoursite.com/folder/do.php?do=rk2&cat=3When you could just havehttp://yoursite.com/folder/do/3/rk2It looks better; it’s search engine friendly, and it’s pretty simple to do on an apache webserver! Rewriting your urls also hides the underlying technology which powers your site; which is good for some, and the links look [...]
Posted in Tutorials on Dec 31st, 2007
This tutorial is designed to help you install the LAMP (Linux,Apache,MySQL,PHP) combo on your Ubuntu machine.
What You Need
Ubuntu (Obviously)
Root Access Password
About 7gigs HDD space (ish)
Step 1
You firstly need to install Apache 2 onto your machine. Fire up the terminal, and enter:
sudo apt-get install apache2
It should then install automatically.
To start Apache, use the following command:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 [...]