By Cameron Chapman
Tourism websites can be a tricky beast. For some areas, where there are very specific attractions, designing their site can be simple. But for areas that have a host of attractions that appeal to many different kinds of people, it can be difficult to design a site that’s representative of the area and [...]

Active Directory Domain Controllers only support teamed network cards in a “Fail on Fault” configuration and not in a load balanced configuration.
To quote Microsoft from the Windows Server System Reference Architecture (WSSRA):
“The second way to protect against a network failure is to configure each domain controller with two separate network cards. Each card is wired [...]

After being a rip-roaring success in 2009, we’re bringing back the 2nd Season of our Showdown later this month.
The Showdown aims to feature the best modifications submitted to The WooThemes Showcase and put them in the ring against other “competitors” in a fun, interactive competition to be crowned the best WooThemes modification. Our Showcase already [...]

Child themes, an introduction
In WordPress 2.7, Child themes have been introduced in WordPress. Using Child themes, you can modify (override) all aspects of a Parent theme (e.g. the stylesheet, page templates, functions) without risking loosing all your modifications when upgrading the parent theme.
In the following chapters a short theoretical introduction, that you may wish to [...]

Tomorrow I’m sharing the opening keynote for the 2009 Annual Scholars Academy, hosted by the Educational Service Center of Cuyahoga County in Aurora, Ohio, for area school administrators. The presentation will be a remix of my opening keynote for eTechOhio 2009: “Reinventing Education for the 21st Century: Designing School 2.0.” In the introduction, to try [...]

There is an ongoing debate about whether WordPress is a CMS (a content management system) or whether it is just a complex blog system with powerful features. To one, it might be a CMS, while to another, there are limitations and they instead refer to it as a blog platform.
If you are still using a [...]

From the Napa Wineries in California to the vineyards of Australia and France, the beautiful designs of these wine maker’s websites embody the spirit of the vine. Trends for winery websites have been leaning towards a dynamic Flash introduction, animation and beautiful graphics, which would give the best representation of the products for the target [...]

Why should you not be accepting advertisements on your blog?
Some would say that blogging was never meant to generate revenue, while others feel that unless they are able to profit from their blog, they won’t be able to develop goals or have any motivation for continuing.
There are many reasons that people deny to accept any [...]

One of the biggest problems facing any Web developer is security. Protecting your website from cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection and session hijacking is extremely important, and it isn’t as hard as you might think.
In this installment of Ask SM, we’ll go over some of the steps you can take to protect your website from [...]

LevelRangeFilter
Small tip for configuring filters — take care with acceptOnMatch, read the documentation for the exact behaviour.
For example, to get a LevelRangeFilter to pass the event on the subsequent filters, use the following:
<filter type="log4net.Filter.LevelRangeFilter">
<acceptOnMatch value="false" />
<levelMin value="DEBUG" />
<levelMax value="FATAL" />
</filter>
<filter type="log4net.Filter.LoggerMatchFilter">
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