a.k.a Elpie

What to do if you have used the auto update function in WordPress 2.7 and you get a message that the site is briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance - and the site simply hangs. It's easy to panic because while the message is there your blog is unavailable from both the administrator and frontend. But, the fix is easy when you know how.

WordPress released version 2.7.1 earlier today. This is a maintenance release for the WordPress 2.7 branch which fixes 68 trac ticket issues, including some feature enhancement requests.

A stand-alone CSS editor can be a useful tool to have in your toolbox. However, while there are any number of commercial and proprietary CSS editors around, its not so easy to find good, free tools to help you with developing your style sheets. I decided to track down the top free CSS editors, install them and put them through their paces.

Help those affected by the bushfire disaster in Victoria, Australia and help yourself at the same time. Thousands of people have been left grieving and homeless in the greatest natural disaster Australia has ever known. They need our help. Now, thanks to SitePoint, helping is not only easy but will also benefit you personally.

Browser add-ons, plugins and extensions can be useful tools to have and some of the more popular Firefox add-ons are "must haves" for website design or search engine optimisation. Whether you actively install add-ons or not, you are sure to be using some. Flash, Adobe Reader, Quicktime and other add-ons have had security vulnerabilities, but what about the nifty tools we can actively install for our web development and SEO use? Just how safe are they? Is there anything we can do to protect ourselves against unsafe browser add-ons?