Cathy K Web and Design
cathyk web and design

MY BLOG

CURRENTLY BROWSING: Web dev
Sloggin'

This is a diary, if you will, of my major learning projects from 2018 and on, in chronological order more or less. If they’re listed here, it means I spent way too many hours to get something right.

I regret that I didn’t put dates for the early items as I was struggling with ...

 

I'll tell you what they're good for

Blogs are cool if you’re disciplined enough to post interesting material regularly. I’m not and I don’t even have that much to say. Thankfully, I have been pretty disciplined in learning to build one.

This website is actually a WordPress website. It doesn’t really ...

 

My contact form works again!

TL;DR – My AWS Lightsail Ubuntu 20.04 OS-only instance server would not allow emails to be sent from a PHPMailer/OAuth2 contact form to my Google Workspaces Gmail inbox. Some resources that helped me fix the problem are at the bottom of this post. Bear with me, ...

 

AWS

Submitted by cathyk       October, 9, 2021

The AWS Experience

Just over three years ago, I opened a Reseller web hosting account with Hostgator. A three-year plan was quite reasonable at the introductory price, but three years later, with a renewal at the standard price of around $1200 bucks looming, I started feeling pressured to get out of ...

 

A milestone

This website has been ‘under construction’ for about two years. Crazy, I know.

I’ve felt tremendous pressure while building my own website as a website designer. A web designer’s website should be scrutinized. I would think a sloppy website is a red flag ...

 

First post

Submitted by cathyk       February, 23, 2020

Populating the blog

For learning and testing purposes, I’ve seeded my blog with some pretty flimsy posts. I’ll have some actual posts ...