CompuSkills Web Design Service

It seems that Compuskills Web Design Blog is now ranked as “Number 1″ in the world by Technorati! I am sure there are lots of you who wont believe this, and it may even no longer be the case by the time you check but, to prove the point, we have taken a screenshot:

(Note: We [...]

Just a reminder for everyone who uses WordPress that there has been a security upgrade (patch) released. Find out more.
If you are Compuskills customer, your word press has been upgraded.
Tagged with:General, Software, Web Design

As mentioned last week, the Compuskills site has undergone a bit of a makeover, with considerable changes to the backend (the server side PHP) which should make it easier for future maintenance to take place.
Everything has progressed well, (you can see the development in progress on the testbed site) and it looks like the deadline [...]

If you are interested you can see the development of the new Compuskills home page taking place over on the web design testbed.
The estimated “Go Live” date for this new overhaul is 00:01hrs 17 Feb 07. Most of the changes have taken place at the back end, with more and more the content being CMS [...]

On the heels of the previous list we have added the following IPs to the blacklist:

61.55.135.167
209.67.219.74
72.21.42.139
66.90.101.223
66.63.170.194
66.90.103.243
62.212.81.166
208.113.151.29
69.16.212.134
64.27.0.166
72.232.65.154
72.232.207.26
82.138.6.154
69.30.192.191
64.72.127.155
205.196.208.26

As you can see, there has been a bit of an increase in the volume of spam comment messages trying to get themselves posted. Such is life.
Tags: IP Address, Blacklist, Comment Spam, Blog Spam, Spam, Technology, Software, Blogging
Tagged with:Frequently Asked [...]

Previous discussions have identified that using a CAPTCHA may not be the best method of preventing spam comments while allowing accessibility. While the W3.org comments on the subject may have been valid a few years ago, even the most out of the way blog today risks being inundated with spam comments, which in turn can [...]

Skype is the world’s main provider of VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) telephone services. It provides free PC to PC phone calls. Its paid services offer PC-to-phone calls and supply additional software like KishKish
The KishKish add-on analyses audio streams for signs of stress that are supposed to identify lying.. See BBC report.
However, according to [...]

It looks like the upgrade to version 2.1 went faster than anticipated with (so far) no teething problems. Everything should be working now.
One comment though, I am not convinced any of the new “features” are actually all that worthwhile. So far, nothing the upgrade has added seems spectacular. Code view (in the write post panel) [...]

As previously mentioned, WordPress version 2.1 (Ella) has now been released and it is our intention to upgrade this site to take advantage of what this offers.
It is anticipated that this upgrade should take less than ten minutes to complete, but to allow for any unforseen problems it is expected that we will be unavailable [...]

In response to a few emails we have received over the last couple of days, it seemed worthwhile to clear up the matter of the FAQs posted here.
It may seem like this are often simplistic answers to what can be very complicated questions, and this is pretty much the case. The idea behind posting these [...]