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CMS

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My new hosting has a few different one-click install packages so i thought i would try some of them and see how they compare to wordpress

Joomla – so complicated it took me 2 hours to work out how to have more than a single article on the frontpage. Also make sure you have ‘magic quotes’ switched off in your version of PHP (took a while to sort that out). The level of control is severely scary and baffling

Drupal – just started tinkering with this but initial impressions are it is a bit more user friendly than joomla, but not as intuitive as wordpress.

Coppermine seems useful and I’ve also installed Lime for surveys but not created one yet 🙂

mTouch quiz

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Just trying this out 🙂

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Windows 8.1, IE11 and Java plugins

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I installed the Windows 8.1 upgrade that went without a hitch, or so I thought. I tried to use my ebanking that uses Java and while I could login and transfer funds I couldn’t get the final approval screen to popup to actually complete the transfer. It turns out that IE11 out of the box is incompatible with some of the java plugin helpers in the most up to date java version :(. One solution is to use Firefox that worked fine, but eventually I sorted out how to make IE11 work with Java

In IE11 go to Tools –> Internet Options –> Advanced –> Scroll to Security –> Uncheck “Enable Enhanced Protected Mode*” –> Close IE and reopen.  Go to Manage add-ins and the 2 java helperSSV  plugins should now be enabled rather than ‘incompatible’

My ebanking works again as it should 🙂