Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.

Willow ,'Storyteller'


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beekaytee - Jan 16, 2017 11:25:42 am PST #25007 of 25496
Compassionately intolerant

amych suggested I move my Business question over here. (Cheers, amych)

Question of the day, for web types:

Is there a preference these days for joomla over wordpress?


Liese S. - Jan 19, 2017 11:04:29 am PST #25008 of 25496
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I use wordpress.


beekaytee - Jan 20, 2017 6:06:01 am PST #25009 of 25496
Compassionately intolerant

Thanks, Liese. I did decide to stick with wordpress.

I bought the template I like and then spent an hour on the phone with a very nice tech for a company I don't love.

Now, the site doesn't look anything like the preview. I'm so bummed. I just want the thing to look like the preview so that I can just change the text and graphics. I'm proficient at that...sort of. The set up? NSM.


meara - Jan 26, 2017 5:07:43 pm PST #25010 of 25496

Anyone know of a good beginner course on Pivot tables in excel?


Jessica - Jan 27, 2017 3:43:44 am PST #25011 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Lynda.com has some good tutorials. If I were local, I'd teach you for free!


meara - Jan 27, 2017 6:34:10 am PST #25012 of 25496

Thanks! Yeah, I may see if any local friends can help too. There's a ridiculous excel sheet that really has too much info on it, for my new project, and I think one way to make it less ridiculous by making it more so would be to use pivot tables. Because right now they're manually updating the summaries...


msbelle - Feb 08, 2017 1:24:48 pm PST #25013 of 25496
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Airport Extreme Base Station question. I have my base station set up with my main wireless account password protected and then a guest access account that is not password protected. I can turn that one on and off with a click.

I turned it off this morning and when I got home it was back on again.

I will probably just test this out, but would disconnecting the base station and then re-connecting it, reset these things?


Laura - Feb 10, 2017 6:50:27 am PST #25014 of 25496
Our wings are not tired.

I am setting up my new environment and trying to bring things over selectively rather than just copying over decades worth of applications and files.

First complete failure was thinking I could use Outlook instead of Thunderbird. Ha! The rules sucked and I gave up. No doubt there is something better, but I know how to use Thunderbird for my zillions of accounts and the rules actually work, kinda.

Next up was reinstalling graphic stuff. I have used Paint Shop Pro for a really long time and know it, but I am thinking of trying Photoshop. My questions: Learning curve for someone that generally can use any software any time even if they never saw it before? Pros/Cons PSP vs Photoshop if you have used both?

ps - in the smart house update I still get up and use the switches because I still haven't upgraded my phone! (I know Drew, Brendon keeps threatening to tell you so I am confessing in advance) It is on the list!


Gudanov - Feb 10, 2017 6:57:35 am PST #25015 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping

I think Thunderbird is great. I like how easy it is to move from computer to computer while keeping all the settings and emails.


NoiseDesign - Feb 10, 2017 7:39:11 am PST #25016 of 25496
Our wings are not tired

UPGRADE YOUR PHONE!