Here are the list of dates/times for tech support drop-in sessions this year (2019). If you are interested in coming along, you can either drop in (since that's the idea) or confirm in advance either via email or by signing up via the linked Facebook event. 28 January, 2019 10h-12h, Café de la paix, 11230… Continue reading 2019 Tech Support Drop-In
If you're building a website or working on a document and you want to use some icons, where do you find them? A well-placed and well-designed icon can really give your site and files a professional look and feel. There are many places to find them but you can quickly search Bootstrap, Font Awesome and… Continue reading Using Icons in Your Docs and Websites
Let's say you're moving a WordPress site from one host to another. Before changing the DNS settings on the domain you want to migrated the site's contents and test it rather than make all the changes to a live site. The way to do this is to make a few simple edits to a text… Continue reading Access WordPress Installation without a Domain
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Store your docs in the Cloud, they say. And we do. And some of us like it so we have multiple accounts. So when we're using Google Drive to store docs online and then cannot download them, it's a real pain! The particular error I'm referring to is this one: An unhelpful 403 Error when… Continue reading A Workaround for the Google Drive Download Error
An email list enables you to send the same message to a group of people. For example, you might want to send messages to a list of family members, club members, or a social group. If you've changed host and were using the webmail package on your host's server rather than a local application like… Continue reading Create a group email list in Roundcube
If you need to build a website but have never made one before, it can be a daunting task and easy to put off. Often you'll get quotes back from web developers for high prices and still not really understand what is is you're buying. Nowadays though, with new site builder tools like WordPress, unless… Continue reading Do you need help to build your business website?
Anyone registered as a micro-entrepeneur (or "ME") in France is required to a submit quarterly declaration (Déclaration Trimestrielle de Recettes), which are used to determine the amount of cotisations (social charges) you will pay. These are separate from taxation and are based on the amount of money you've been paid. This can all be done online… Continue reading How to Submit your Declaration Online as an ME in France
As of 2019 we are happy to be able to announce that our servers are powered 100% by ''green energy''. But what does that mean? Well, in this case, it means all the energy used to power the data centre* comes from renewable sources. Because our servers are in the UK, the provider is Ecotricity.… Continue reading Our hosting is Green!
Two pieces of free software I like to use are SkyFonts, a font manager that you use to manage any non-system fonts downloaded from Google Fonts or Font.com, and Inkscape, a free vector graphics tool that is a good freeware substitute for Adobe Illustrator. I find Inkscape to more akin to the old Corel Draw… Continue reading Link SkyFonts to Inkscape
