Car and Driving are a customer we do a large amount of work with. This page is a demo for their clients, to show how to embed a video on a WordPress website (which is what the Rectangle Red website is built in). See Car and Driving's Wiki for more information; this page is done using the embed code shown on ...
Security and WordPress Brute Force Password Cracking
There are ongoing botnet attacks on WordPress sites that try to gain access by brute force guessing a username / password to allow login to the site. If you have a WordPress site, we would recommend 2 urgent steps to prevent infection 1) Ensure all login accounts have hard to guess passwords. Easy to say, but in general any password …
Tech Tip: Google Chrome Download Error – Insufficient Permissions
If Google Chrome is failing to download any files, giving an insufficient permissions error, there’s a simple fix. The error is just what it says; for whatever reason, it can’t write to the download directory. Go to Settings (use the odd three horizontal lines icon on the top right to bring up a menu and click Settings). At the bottom of the …
Build your own QR code!
A QR code is a (usually black and white) square graphic, like the one on this page. Typically, it holds a description of a web address, so that if you point a smartphone at it, it can decode the web address from the pattern, and jump straight to that web page. Try it with the one on this page! You …
Tech Tip: Error “405 Method Not Allowed” when performing a PUT on IIS7
Todays thought is a spectacularly obscure “feature” in Microsoft’s IIS 7.0 web server. Credit to the Mindtouch Developer portal team for this one. To fix the 405 error, go to the root of your site in IIS, find the Modules button and double click it. Scroll down to WebDAV and hit Remove on the right. Back out and open up …
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