I was trying to get my job hunter site redone for HTTPS, mobile-friendly design and the new AdSense format. It was just too big, too complex, and too overwhelming for a first effort ( Read more... )

The further I go, the more I learn about the ins and outs of SSL -- and the more I realize just how much of an uphill battle it is going to be to get all of my websites completely shifted over to HTTPS. For instance, I've discovered that the older iframe code for Amazon's Associates program breaks when you switch to HTTPS. I'd thought I'd gotten a ( Read more... )

After struggling for some time to figure out what the heck is going on, I finally decided it was time to stop letting the best be the enemy of the good enough, and decided to put together the naval history website and get it uploaded. It is now up at navalhistory.leighkimmel.com, so you can see how it looks all right in Safari, but in Firefox the ( Read more... )

Today I was trying to get another of my websites up, and was having all kinds of trouble with it. I'd customized an open-source template I'd found on Free Layouts, and it had been working fine. But when I went to upload it, suddenly all the graphics disappeared. I thought that it had to do with the server-side includes, which don't work properly ( Read more... )