Welcome to Max-Design

Please take a look at the website portfolio for a guide to the calibre and complexity of websites currently in production. Recent projects include an equine site for Event Rider and Trainer Colina Pickles (www.colinapickles.com) and a community website for fellow rock climbers, under the guidance of Rock Climbing Instructor and Manager of the Bear Rock Climbing center at Warwick University, Colin Little MIA (www.littleadventuresuk.com). Members are able to sign up, build their own profile pages, public chat, private messaging, email contact and newsletters, public diaries and photo galleries with member tagging and comments. All websites currently built are incredibly feature rich, and built to be search engine friendly. My clients are able to log in and update their own sites, access their email anywhere online using webmail, and set up a near unlimited number of email accounts with their domain name.
For further information please visit the Web Design section or Contact page.

Photography has been a long standing passion of mine, and occasionally I also offer my services commercially. I have photographed Fine Art paintings, Weddings, Sporting Events, Fashion shows and Sculptures. I have used my photography skills to shoot product images for websites I have created, and artistic photography I have taken has been sold for use in commercial advertisement. Visit the Gallery.

Easyspace Joomla JFolder create Could not create directory

Are you getting this error in Joomla on Easyspace while installing components?

JFolder::create: Could not create directory
Warning! Failed to move file.


Easyspace have had some recent issues with the loads on their servers, and I think they have moved some sites over from one hosting server to another.

The result is that Joomla now has the wrong folders listed for TEMP and LOG.

Its pretty simple to check and correct if need be:
Log in to the administrator section of your site
Click on Help - then System Info or for newer versions of Joomla post 1.6, Site - System Information.
Now Directory Permissions, and scroll to the bottom, the last two listed are the TMP and LOG paths, if they have Unwritable in red, they need fixing.

So if you are still reading, then it needs fixing - look at the two lines above it and compare the non-bold part. Chances are that the one above differs slightly - mine said /vhost/vhost9/...(and then the unique path for your site) above and /vhost/vhost8/... below. This is because the site used to be hosted on /vhost/vhost8/... but it was moved.

The fix is simple, remember what lines from above stated and go to Site / Global Configurations / System and on the second line down 'Path to folder' - correct this one to state /vhost/vhost9/... or whatever yours said.
Next go to Server at the top and fill out the same /vhost/vhost9/... on the 'Path to Temp-folder'

To confirm it is now set up right, go back to Help / System Info / Directory Permissions and check they are all green now.

If they are, try installing something again - good luck!

DropBox for Backup & Sharing

DropBox via Max-Design.co.ukIm encouraging the use of online storage with all customers, providing you are not handling data of a too sensitive nature, the free package offered by DropBox.com of 2GB is a great start to ensuring your files are kept safe off-site. The rule to backing up your data on a professional level, is that you should have three backups of your critical data, one on-site, and two offsite at different locations. In reality, most people dont even have a backup on-site, and this might just be a hassle free solution to those! And as a bonus, you can view you files on any other internet ready device via thier website or purpose made apps!

Click the link here and we will both get an extra 250mb of space, and if you need help setting it up or learning how to make it work best for you, just give me a call!

FreshfieldsSchool.org Freshfields Nursery School

Freshfields Nursery School in Clifford Chambers freshfieldsschool.orgProviding a homely, natural and healthy education.
www.freshfieldsschool.org

This site has been set up for the outstanding Freshfields Nursery School in Clifford Chambers, just on the outskirts of Stratford upon Avon. The site has a wonderful photo gallery set up for the private viewing of the familys of thier pupils and extensive information of the activities and services the Nursery School offers.

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