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Category Archives: Tutorials

How to Register for a Website Domain Name

May 19 2010
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This is one of the very first step to creating your own website – is to register for a domain name. This step should not be taken lightly. Throughout this post we’ll be exploring different aspects of registering a domain … Continue reading

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How to Add Favicons on Your Website

May 17 2010
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Have you ever seen these nice icons that are next to the browser URL address bar? Well today I want to show you how these are added to your website to further promote your brand identity. So what is favicon? … Continue reading

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How to Use CSS Clip Property for Inline Image Sprites

Mar 28 2010
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In this tutorial I want to show you how to use the CSS “CLIP” property. This property has many uses and one of them allows you to create sprites with inline image tags. Most of the time you are using … Continue reading

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How to Add “AJAX Like” Validation to Forms with jQuery

Feb 27 2010
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In this tutorial I want to show you how to add “AJAX like” validation to a form with jQuery. For those of you who are not familiar with AJAX, without getting too complicated, allows you to validate on the client-side … Continue reading

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bbPress and WordPress Integration

Jan 30 2010
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In this screencast tutorial I show you how to integrate bbPress with WordPress. This integration will allow the sharing of user database tables and admin database tables so that way users can be logged in to your WordPress site and … Continue reading

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How to Setup a Local Website Testing Ground with WAMP

Jan 26 2010
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In this screencast tutorial I want to go over how you can setup a local web server so that you can test all your websites locally on your own computer before publishing it live on the internet. Needless to say … Continue reading

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WordPress Relative Links Inside a Post with Shortcode API

Jan 21 2010
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In this tutorial I want to show you how to include “relative” links inside your WordPress posts using shortcode API.

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Building a Website from Scratch A to Z – Part 2 (Coding)

Jan 03 2010
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This is the second part of a two part series on building a website from scratch a to z. If you have not yet seen part 1 on “design”, you can follow the link below. Part 1 (Design)

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Add a Countdown Timer on Your Website

Dec 07 2009
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Many times as an online marketer or a product promoter you want to draw a hype to a specific campaign be it a 24 hour sale or days left until free giveaways are over. What better way than to use … Continue reading

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Building a Website from Scratch A to Z – Part 1 (Design)

Nov 29 2009
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In this tutorial I want to show you how “I” build a website from designing the layout in Photoshop to coding it in Dreamweaver A to Z. I am expecting this to be a 2 part series. The first part … Continue reading

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