Dave’s mid-level tech tips
I’m a guy who’s been using computers for a long while. I bought my first Mac Plus in early 1987, and I had done some simple database programming for a couple years before that in a secretarial job. I think of myself as a “power user,” more or less.
However, the two or three weeks before I am writing this have shown me how relatively little I know. Between moving my sites to new servers, updating my WordPress and podPress blogs, re-installing a forum, and migrating to a more robust version of form email, I have spent dozens of hours trying to figure out how to do things for which there are no user manuals.
So this page, and the pages subordinate to it, will be devoted to what I will call “mid-level tech tips.”
There is a lot of online help for folks who want to do very simple things with website and computers. And of course, there is plenty of information online for true computer geeks, people who can write complex code without getting a headache.
There don’t, however, seem to be a lot of resources for some tricky things that need explaining to us middling power users who don’t do computers and tech for a living. That’s what this page is for. I’ll link to my own explanations of how to do some things I’ve worked out. Within those pages I’ll also put links to sites and forums where other explanations are given.