Category Archives - Site Updates

All HTMLHelp.com site related updates are categorized here.

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HostWay / ValueWeb Incredibly Long Server Outage

Something went horribly wrong with the previously planned server migration at ValueWeb and the company was responsible for keeping thousands of servers off-line for much, much longer than expected.
HTMLHelp’s two dedicated servers were offline for over 75 hours.
The worst part was that the company failed to communicate to anyone during the longer than […]

HTMLHelp.com Server Migration July 27-28

As a heads up to everyone, our hosting provider has notified us that due to an aquisition they will be physically moving our server to a new facility sometime after 8pm on Friday July 27 on east coast US time (GMT -5).
Since HTMLHelp is hosted on two different dedicated servers I’m not sure […]

Page Includes - Not just for the obvious

It’s long been known that Web site includes (Server side includes, PHP includes, ASP includes etc) are a fantastic tool to enable us to work smarter, rather than harder. What could be better than updating one file which in turn updates multiple pages across one Web site? Well, short of browser support for multiple backgrounds […]

The HTMLHelp.blog Theme and Plugin Page

The WDG wishes to thank all of the developers that contributed their time and energy toward building the tools used to run HTMLHelp.com’s Weblog. The following is a complete list of themes and plugins used within the site.