Gossamer Web Design Lake Tahoe

We have upgraded our PHP installation to the latest release. The following modules have been updated:

• php5-5.2.10
• php5-bcmath-5.2.10
• php5-bz2-5.2.10
• php5-calendar-5.2.10
• php5-ctype-5.2.10
• php5-curl-5.2.10
• php5-dba-5.2.10
• php5-dbase-5.2.10
• php5-dom-5.2.10
• php5-exif-5.2.10
• php5-ftp-5.2.10
• php5-gd-5.2.10
• php5-gettext-5.2.10
• php5-iconv-5.2.10
• php5-imap-5.2.10
• php5-mbstring-5.2.10
• php5-mcrypt-5.2.10
• php5-mhash-5.2.10
• php5-mssql-5.2.10
• php5-mysql-5.2.10
• php5-mssql-5.2.10
• php5-mysqli-5.2.10
• php5-openssl-5.2.10
• php5-pcre-5.2.10
• php5-pdo-5.2.10
• php5-pdo_sqlite-5.2.10
• php5-posix-5.2.10
• php5-session-5.2.10
• php5-simplexml-5.2.10
• php5-soap-5.2.10
• php5-spl-5.2.10
• php5-sqlite-5.2.10
• php5-tokenizer-5.2.10
• php5-xml-5.2.10
• php5-xmlreader-5.2.10
• php5-xmlwriter-5.2.10
• php5-zip-5.2.10
• php5-zlib-5.2.10
• phpMyAdmin-3.2.0.1

The following perl modules were updated:

• p5-Bit-Vector-6.6
• p5-IO-Socket-SSL-1.27
• p5-List-MoreUtils-0.24
• p5-Module-Build-0.34
• p5-Mouse-0.27
• p5-Template-Toolkit-2.22
• p5-Text-SimpleTable-1.4
• p5-libwww-5.830

A number of perl modules were updated this month including:

• p5-Apache2-SOAP-0.73
• p5-Catalyst-Devel-1.19
• p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.54
• p5-Catalyst-Plugin-ConfigLoader-0.24
• p5-Catalyst-Plugin-Session-0.24
• p5-Catalyst-Runtime-5.80007
• p5-Class-MOP-0.90
• p5-Moose-0.87
• p5-Config-General-2.43
• p5-DBIx-Class-0.08107
• p5-DateTime-0.50
• p5-DateTime-Locale-0.43
• p5-DateTime-TimeZone-0.91
• p5-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.2603
• p5-FormValidator-Simple-0.28
• p5-JSON-DWIW-0.34
• p5-MooseX-Types-0.16
• p5-Test-Manifest-1.23
• p5-Text-SimpleTable-1.2
• p5-UNIVERSAL-can-1.15
• p5-UNIVERSAL-isa-1.03
• p5-Variable-Magic-0.36

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Gossamer once again updated a number of WordPress plugins. Upgrades of general purpose plugins do not generally impact your Wordpress website. If a domain specific plugin is being maintained for your website and is upgraded, you will need to take specific actions to take advantage of any new additional features available.

This month’s plugin updates include:

• Actionable v0.8.3
• All in One SEO Pack
• Akismet 2.2.6
  • Update your database
  • Configure (Admin)
• Collapsing Pages 0.5.2
• Google XML Sitemaps
  • Configure (Admin)
• eShop for Wordpress 3.6.1
• Multi-level Navigation Plugin 2.1.8
• WordPress Page Tree 1.3
• Shopp Requirements Check 0.2

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With the end of the current economic downturn in sight it is a great time to review your current website and ask, “Are you ready for the upturn”?

Gossamer’s new line of WordPress websites offers you a way to upgrade your current web presence. WordPress websites are highly interactive, work great, and allow you to control or reduce your website maintenance costs.

WordPress has thousands of free design templates, and a wide variety of plugins that add new features to your website that would normally cost thousands to design and develop.

With an easy to use DashBoard you can quickly update and add to the content of your website. Easily display your expertise to your customers by adding posts describing the best features of your products and keep everyone informed of the latest developments in your business.

Our apache installation was upgraded today. There was a brief outage, less than 5 minutes, caused when one of the new modules failed to compile correctly.

The problem was quickly resolved. A subsequent reboot uncovered an extra ” in our rc.conf file causing a boot-up problem which was also quickly resolved.

Today we upgraded WordPress. According to their development blog:

WordPress 2.8.1 fixes many bugs and tightens security for plugin administration pages. Core Security Technologies notified us that admin pages added by certain plugins could be viewed by unprivileged users, resulting in information being leaked. Not all plugins are vulnerable to this problem, but we advise upgrading to 2.8.1 to be safe.

As with all WordPress upgrades, users will not notice any changes. Administrations may see an upgrade notice when they login. WordPress will ask you to upgrade the database, please do so. This generally takes but a few seconds.

Sigma Engineering Services, a structural design and analysis services company specializing in the area of stress and dynamic structural analysis, has chosen Gossamer Web Design to design and host their new website.

Sigma Engineering owner Steve Spencer wanted a website that was also capable of serving several back-office functions he required to provide more efficient document support for his clients. Each of his clients would need a private, confidential support section and Steve wanted to populate his new website himself. Steve also needed to easily upload and share thousands of documents, not to mention the ability to search through them.

Gossamer recommended WordPress. What? Isn’t WordPress just for bloggers?

WordPress is much, much more. It is a Content Management System (CMS) capable, with the help of a plugin or two, of providing Sigma Engineering Services with a low cost solution meeting all of his requirements.

After Steve selected a template Gossamer quickly configured Steve’s new website per his requirements. After a brief learning curve Steve was able to begin to fill in the content of his website.

I did an upload and it works well…pretty easy to do. Thanks for putting it all together…it looks good and is working well.

Steve

If you want to check on Steve’s progress, you can visit his website at http://sigmastrong.net/. You can view Gossamer’s WordPress website packages in our store.

Thank you Rahul.

During the first quarter of 2009, Gossamer worked closely with Clark Builders, Inc. out of Gardnerville, NV to release their website designed entirely in Flash.

Dennis and Nancy Clark have been building homes in Nevada and California since 1987. Their new website pulls together much of their previous advertising efforts and then some.

Gossamer worked closely with Nancy in choosing a Flash template that was appealing and workable. Gossamer then customized the design.

I got to tell you what a great job you did on this ad. I hope it gets you some business.

Love …Bune’e:)

You may visit Dennis and Nancy’s new website at http://www.clarkbuildersincnv.com/.