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This Week’s Favourites–29th October 2009
This week’s favourites include tools for creating dummy text, attractive colour combinations, reflections of images, background patterns, and polls for social media networks! Dummy text is often used to show how different fonts and layouts will look on a website (i.e., ‘Lorem Ipsum&#...

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Firestar & Hydra IP Migration Live Blog
Hydra: Info: Hydra is being migrated to a new rack, this unfortunately requires an IP migration. All customers on Hydra were given 7 days notice for the migration and full instructions on what to do and expect. 02:03 Hydra has been shutdown and is currently being moved to a new rack, we have prec...

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Free and Premium Ecommerce Joomla Templates
Recently, I told you about some Ecommerce Joomla Extensions that you can use to build an online store using the award-winning content management system Joomla, so I decided to follow up that post with a collection of free and premium ecommerce Joomla templates!  I found some great templatesR...

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Web Chat Software for Ecommerce
One of the keys to running a successful online business is making the most of every visitor to your company’s website by providing them with an attractive and professional site, reasonable prices, clear navigation, and an easy way to contact a staff member for more information.  Providing ...

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Watercolour WordPress Themes
Watercolour has been one of the biggest trends in web design for a while now, and you don’t have to be a web designer to get this look on your website or blog.  I found 9 free and premium WordPress themes that incorporate watercolour effects in their designs! Windmills 1.0 Price:  Free! ...

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Retro WordPress Themes
I love retro web design, so I searched the web to find WordPress themes that incorporate design elements from the 1950’s, 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. With these WordPress themes, your website or blog can have an old fashioned appearance but with modern functionality! Retromania ...

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Kernel Updates Live Blog
We have scheduled a maintenance window for, 22:00 on Monday night (05/10/09). @ Approx 22:00 – We need to install a new Kernel on the server hosting your account and several other servers. This will require a reboot of all affected servers. Usually a reboot goes fine and the server is runn...

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Octane Maintenance Live Blog
@ 23:20: We’ve finished on the server and are checking 20% of sites hosted on there for issues. Thanks to Toby for performing the maintenance. @ 22:35: PHP is recompiling, might have short spells of HTTP downtime – am also tweeting at http://twitter.com/evohosting @ 22:10: Server came...

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Name Our New Server! Win Free Domain!
We’ve just taken delivery of our new server, as yet it is unnamed – we’d like you to name it. Want to enter? Simply reply at the bottom of this blog post with a cool name, the first replier with the name we choose will win a free domain registration! Three names per entry, one e...

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Free and Premium Ecommerce WordPress Themes
To complement last week’s post on Ecommerce WordPress Plugins, I’ve rounded up some of the best free and premium Ecommerce WordPress Themes.  Some of these themes work with the eShop and WP e-Commerce plugins, while others actually have shopping carts built in, meaning you don’...

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How to Create Custom cPanel Icons & Groups
If you’re a web host and you’d like direct links from cPanel into your billing or support system this tutorial should give you all the information you need. We will build some icons into a new group that only your direct (root owned) customers can see, this means the customers of your...

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Ruby on Rails, and other new things in your cPanel!
We’ve been a bit busy today and you will find some nice new shiny features in your Evohosting cPanel! We’ve added support for Ruby on Rails to cPanel which a few people have been asking for recently, so to those who have asked, its done! You will find the Ruby on Rails link in the &#...

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Firestar Maintenance Live Blog
(Thur 10/09/09) 00:17 (Fri) - Job done, thanks Toby for doing the update… We’re going to check 20% of sites hosted, if your site has a problem do tell please open a ticket and let us know. 23:49 – Sites are still up, Apache recompiling still… Zzz. 23:32 – Sites still...

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Firestar Maintenance Live Blog
22:35 – Job done – Sites are online, cPanel is up, life is alright (apart from the fact I’m blogging at 22:35 about a server reboot!) Tomorrow we’ll be upgrading Firestar to MySQL5 at 22:30 – will use this blog post.  (22:35:14 up 2 min) 22:33 – It’s pin...

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