by Mark E. Mason on January 19, 2010
I am writing this post using Windows Live Writer 2009. Normally, I write WordPress posts in Firefox using the admin interface inside of WordPress. That is not the best environment sometimes – especially since you have to be online to use it.
I looked at these type of desktop-based web publishing tools a couple of years ago and they were not great. I’m looking again because I noticed that Microsoft released a version of Live Writer for 2009 (I guess I missed it).
First task will be to insert a picture of this window. I’ll do a screen capture and jam it into the post right here.
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by Mark E. Mason on March 1, 2009
I got a question by email this weekend that reminded me that a lot of internet marketers don't know much about web servers. That's OK. You don't really need to know much. In case I am describing you, just know that a web server is the program on your host computer that serves web pages. There are two main flavors -- Apache and MicroSoft IIS.
Apache dominates the market -- althought IIS has a role, especially in enterprise deployments that interface heavily with .NET and Windows.
Apache is available for Unix/Linux and Windows. Sometimes, bad things happen and you need to restart Apache on your host. Now, this can be accomplished via CPanel. However, I prefer to do it at the command line. Here is the command:
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
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