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7 Reasons to Have a Personal Website
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27 Jan 2009Having a website has become a necessity in today’s world. With many hosting companies offering all the required website resources in one place, there is little reason not to have a place of your own on the web.
Possessing a website of your own allows you to take part in an invaluable communication environment. With this in mind, we take a look at 7 reasons why it is highly advisable to have a personal presence online today.
Using Self Hosted WordPress at Home
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7 Jan 2009I recently had a project that required an extensive amount of customization to a WordPress Theme. The following article describes how I setup a WordPress blog on my home computer to work through the changes on the theme.
Creating Your own WordPress Plug-in and Widget
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29 Dec 2008Until now, whenever I needed to have something displayed on the sidebar of my WordPress blog, I simply input my HTML code into a Text Widget and added it to the sidebar. This worked fine until I needed something with a bit of intelligence to it.
But what I discovered was that there did not seem to be a ready made, easy to use template for creating a Sidebar Widget or a WordPress plug-in. So I have created this easy to use template
WordPress: Sticky Posts
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9 Nov 2008Recently, someone posted a question on one of the forums asking if there was a way to make a particular blog post sticky, or always the first post displayed on the home page of the blog. I know of a way to edit the theme files to add static content, but that is the extent [...]
Adding a Search Engine to Your Website
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20 Aug 2008As you develop your website and the amount of content grows, finding specific bits and pieces rapidly become more of an issue. This can be a problem not only for your users, but also for your content managers. But, why do you need an on site search engine when you gone to all of the [...]
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Planning your Content Management System
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14 Aug 2008Before we begin, perhaps a brief description of what a Content Management System (CMS) is or does would be appropriate. A Content Management System is a system used to organize and facilitate digital content. Originally as simple as a rolodex or encyclopedia, today’s content management systems are elaborate software/database applications designed to store and process [...]
Resetting the Browser with CSS
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11 Aug 2008Frustrated with CSS? Try this little trick to start clean.
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Getting to Grips with CSS
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25 Dec 2007Occasionally, we receive questions from our members about implementing technologies that are still new to them. The following post covers a topic on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) that we hope you find useful. Martin from WealthyDragon writes “I know what CSS does and what it allows you to do, but I’ve never got to grips [...]
Selecting the right Web Hosting plan
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15 Dec 2007Today’s market for web hosting is competitive and confusing for the average Internet user, to say the least. How many of us have visited Web Hosting sites only to be bombarded with technical terms and specifications that we don’t understand? Let’s take a look at some of the features that you should be the most [...]
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