Wiki’s are amazing things. Community maintained founts of information. Many are run using MediaWiki, an open source project on sourceforge. If you are running version 1.3.10 or below, you should immediately upgrade to 1.3.11. If you are running the beta release of 1.4, you should immediately upgrade to 1.4.ec1. This is because a routine security audit turned up several flaws in prior code.

One of the new “offers” Godaddy makes you click through when renewing a domain name is an ez-complete copyright registration. For a mere $16.95 (read the small print to find you still pay the $30 government registration fee) you can register your copyright. Some people will think the $16.95 is instead of the $30 the way it is worded. For some this might still be a good deal because they can do it right now with no delay and it gets done. However, you need to get your complete work into one computer file to use their submission method. That will make getting your website registered less than convenient. For many others however, this will be a waste of an extra $16.95.

We have previously covered copyright on our site. We can save you that $16.95! Feel free to donate $6.95 to us if you wish 🙂

Registering a copyright is simple and need not cost you any extra money:

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Franki earlier reported on the re-emergence of pop-under advertisements as a method of circumventing pop-up blockers built into Safari and Firefox browsers. I wanted to dig further to see if they were really back. The answer is clearly yes, as shown in this screen shot. As you can see by the next screen shot, this pop-under with the address http://205.180.85.40/w/pc.cgi?mid=60922&sid=4253 comes from a referring page at http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/motor.htm. This confirms the information at MacFixIt that howstuffworks is using them.

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Yesterday we noticed the WordPress site had 1.5 available (a jump from version 1.2.2 in effect). Today we received our official notice of the release in an email from Matt Mullenwig. It touts the following as the short list of advances:

Here’s the Cliff Notes version:

* Easier template system
* Gorgeous new default template
* Great comment management
* Refined administration
* Faster, more secure, smaller, cuter, et cetera 😉
* Still free as a bird

The complete rundown of improvements is on the WordPress Site.

We are big fans of WordPress here at HTMLfixit.com, but the frequency of updates makes keeping the plethora of sites we have using WordPress a bit of a task on a regular basis. The update process is usually painless, but because we have to do it on several dozen sites … well, it takes some time.

Wish I knew Flash because this would be a very good gig at ESPN. Other problem is I don’t want to live on the East Coast … just a bit pricey. Good luck to you if you know Flash.

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Can’t figure out what font a particular design is using and are desperate to be able to use the same font yourself? Check out what the font, which lets you upload a file for free and analyzes the glyphs of the file and suggests similar fonts. Separating letters into individual files can often lead to better results, and sometimes what the font doesn’t quite get it, but I’ve been pleased with it’s successful identification on numerous occasions.

Lately I’ve been obsessed with information. I soak it up like John Kerry in a tanning bed. In working to get my clients better, more efficient, more lovely looking and highly flexible sites, I’ve perused tons of places for inspiration, guidance, advice and all that good stuff. Today in my browsing, I found through Cameron Moll (who, I might add, offers great nuggets of ideas, from the very general to highly specific tutorials on his own site) , sitepoint.com a huge resource of information for designers and programmers.