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As I have mentioned before, I am doing a redevelopment of my Category Magic Plugin. I have reworked a lot of code and write I am in the testing phase. I have made some enhancements to the general structure of the plugin in order to make it flow better. I didn’t just stop at making the code flow better.

WordPress has made some changes along the way and the big addition has been tags. That means new features and tags are the biggest one when it comes to Category Magic. New changes I made in the code also include support for tags. I have listened to suggestions here and I decided to make sure that they was support for excerpts and full posts in the code.

All of this has introduced a brand new problem. As I prepare to release it, should I release it all as updates to category magic or should I just make the simple changes to Category Magic and release another plugin titled Expanded Category Magic, or something to that effect?

I’d love to hear some advice. Right now I am looking at having the new changes available for download within a couple of days of the release of 2.7. Now’s the time to make your voices heard.

For a project that I am working on, I need to be able to put videos online and then be able to control the videos and the brand image associated with the video. I don’t have a big budget to work with so I have been looking for a solution to hosting my own videos onsite.

Youtube doesn’t work for this project because of the lack of control of the videos. I’d hate for a competitors video to pop up and get people to click away. This means that I have to recreate my own mini video site. To this end, I came across some nice open source scripts and packages that help me make my own video site.

Once I have everything up and running, I will share the site and the exact code I used to make the site a reality.

I used to think that Network Solutions only offered domain names, then I realized that also offer some great hosting packages. Now, I see that they also offer some great web design packages so you can have a great looking site to go along with your great domain name idea.

Network Solutions is a real web design company. This means that they don’t offer a cookie cutter webpage that looks like you pieced it together using duct tape and super glue. Instead, they offer full fledged custom web design solutions. They offer a standard service and premium service, depending on your needs. The goal is simple, help you get a great looking web site for your business.

If you go with their standard web site design package, you get a 5 page design complete with hosting. You choose from among many professionally designed templates and then have their design team customize the template to meet your exacting needs. The result is a great looking website.

One thing that struck my eye looking over their web design offerings is that they utilize US based designers. This is an important issue. You get quality designers who know your needs and you’ll have no problem communicating your needs to them. You also avoid many of the problems associated with outsourcing such as missed deadlines and cost overruns. The benefits of using Network Solutions as your web design company are quite clear indeed.

It’s been a while since I talked about GLM Environment so I figured it was time for an update. The platform/environment is working out very nicely. It’s still very much in alpha at this stage because I had a few important things come up, but it’s nice to see that it has already turned into a profitable script.

It is generating income on a couple of domains of mine right now as I write this. If I had more time in my schedule to do more promotion of it, I am sure that it would produce even more income. It’s nice to see that several of my projects are seeing genuine success.

What’s next for GLM Environment? It needs some more polishing and more testing. At that stage, I will look at selling it. I promise to keep you, my readers, updated on the progress.

There was a transformer explosion and a resulting fire over the weekend at the Planet Data Center in Houston. It’s hard to believe that these kind of freak accidents can happen, but they do. All the best laid plans can easily be put asunder with a freak accident.

In this case, no data was lost, just internet connectivity was lost until power could be restored. The question pops, though, what would have happened if data had been lost? Do you have an offsite backup? Do you have a plan ready should data be lost? How often do you make backups?

I will discussing a few ways to backup web files in the next week or so.