Jon Witts' Design

So after a week of battling with Grunion Contact Form for WordPress, trying to find out why it would not send out emails I came across this post: http://nutbeen.com/fasthosts-and-wordpress-contactemail-forms/ 

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Having downloaded Ubuntu 11.04 last night and installed my laptop from scratch with it to have a look at the changes; I thought I would revisit my earlier post of how to get Ubuntu to play commercial DVDs and update it for the latest version of the operating system.
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I know there are many of these guides already on the Internet; but I include this one here on my blog more for my own reference than anything else! Read more…

On Tuesday 5th April Open Source Schools are hosting a National Leadership Conference to showcase to school leaders the benefits that Open Source Software can have in their schools.

As a member of Open Source Schools and as I already utilise a lot of different Open Source Software (both at a classroom level and in the server rooms) at our school, I am helping to raise the profile of this event. Read more…

A colleague of mine has asked me to work with him redesigning his WordPress blog so I thought it was  about time I tried my first WordPress theme.

As a starting point I thought I would use the CSS from this site and see if I could get WordPress to feel completely integrated into the style of http://www.jonwitts.co.uk . I think I have meet that aim without any issues, however in doing this first theme I have begun to realise quite how powerful a theme engine WordPress really has! Read more…

This is for discussion about the SHS Blue Moodle theme that is available to download on the Moodle site. Read more…

This entry is for people to discuss the “Red Drop Down Menus” theme I have uploaded to the Moodle themes database. Read more…

Install IIS

1. Insert your Windows XP Professional CD into your computer. When it auto runs, choose “Install optional Windows components”
2. In the window that opens, scroll down the list until you find “Internet Information Services (IIS)” and tick the box next to it.
3. Click “Next” then wait whilst Windows installs IIS.
4. Click “Finish” and then close the CD window. Read more…

1. First install your system; either a base install of Debian or Ubuntu Server or the full desktop install, depending on what else you want to use it for.
2. Start a terminal and type “sudo apt-get install apache2”
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(Utilising Samba, dhcp3 and webmin)

Install Debian

1. Boot PC from Debain CD
2. Select Language and Location
3. Select Keyboard type
4. Enter Hostname – e.g. HOST1 Read more…