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The control panel was unavailable for some hours on the 25th due to a complete database rebuild that took unexpectedly long. Investigations are proceeding to ensure that all possible steps to mitigate such issues in future will be considered.

Wow - there are certainly a lot of Wordpress plugins out there … here are a few that really jumped out for me in my latest searches!

• Yahoo Sidebar Link Badge Widget
• Newsletter Plugin this is a commercial plugin that allows you to create and manage an web-based newsletter and mailing list within the WordPress environment.
• Ultimate Tag Warrior for all the tagging you could ever want - looks like it is about to get a major overhaul, possibly to address performance issues
• Simple Tagging Plugin was created to be fast, with an auto-complete feature as well
• WP-Amazon is there to help you find and link to Amazon for any product you may blog about - with support for your Amazon Associates ID (so you can earn money when readers click through and purchase!)
• The Hacker’s Diet Plugin which you can use to input your weight everyday for calculating and tracking your weight trend based off the guidance and formulas used in the book, The Hacker’s Diet. (Yes, yours truly should be on this diet any minute now!)
• Nike+ iPod Stats plugin can retrieve your personal data and formats it to display correctly on your Wordpress blog. (Once again yours truly should be doing this as well … once the iPod fairy delivers.)

The range of possibilities is truly endless, these are just a sampling of the plugins you can install in your own Wordpress installation - so look forward to the new accounts signup page where you can start hosting your own Fantastic blog in your own Fantastic way!

That’s a great question! I must say that I have been pretty happy with our new servers - downtime has been minimal, communication has been good and performance has left nothing to be desired.

As far as hosting goes, I have a couple of subdomains being used by my first client. She has been extremely happy with the web design tools that are available - which is really great news because she isn’t a highly literate computer user by any stretch of the imagination!

These next couple of weeks will see at least two more clients added - which will give me more of an opportunity to see what’s working well and what needs more attention - from the clients’ perspective.

With K2 - an advanced template for Wordpress. This looks like a really nice template, I’ll have to get it tested here soon and see if I can offer it to my customers.

This looks much nicer than the built-in PHP-Projekt tool that we have available. I will begin an investigation (read, install and try it out myself) and hopefully will give it the greenlight for you to use.

activeCollab - open source project management and collaboration tool.

The over-riding goal is to provide a high-quality collaboration tool, which is something we have to applaud. It looks nice, too.

Welcome to the Fantastiblog. As we move in here to our new server you can read about what’s going on here at Fantastic Web Sites.
A little behind the scenes peek, ideas, tools and interesting tidbits from the ever changing internet landscape.