CompuSkills Web Design Service

Previously this blog, and the others managed by Compuskills web design service, has suffered from massive deluges of comment spam. This has resulted in the institution of practices such as the Captcha which was frowned up on for its lack of accessibility.
Since upgrading a multitude of sites to WordPress 2.1, the level of comment spam [...]

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 [...]

What are the advantages of using AJAX techniques? The combination of Javascript, XML, css, HTTPRequest / i-frame can add a degree of interactivity that greatly enriches the user’s experience. At the same time, less bandwidth is used when server requests are limited to be sent only on-demand.
Technorati Tags: AJAX Java Script XML Scripting Client [...]

What’s wrong with Javascript? Javascript is often irritating to users. Scripts can be slow to run. They are prone to crashing. They are associated with actions that users hate – opening pop-up windows; disabling the back button; taking over the user’s browser; setting aware cookies; adding novelty effects such as cursor trails [...]

Just to let you know, Only a few days after WordPress version 2.0.6 was released, 2.0.7 has come out. This time the security fixes seem somewhat trivial to put in place (only six files to upload). Version 2.1 is due out quite soon (Feb) so this should be the last update before then. There is [...]

1&1 have been having email problems and this may have affected any mail sent to Compuskills or the Project Management service. The Web Design emails have been getting through fine.

Is it better to write HTML or use a program like Dreamweaver? (FAQ)

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