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Dropbox – save your files in the cloud for free!

In this post i will be looking at using Dropbox a free online cloud storage service that has a wide range of uses from backing up important documents to transferring files into your iPhone. The first thing we will need to do is sign up for a Dropbox account here with an account created we [...]

How to add twitter to your website

In this post i will look at adding a twitter feed to your website, this is a useful way of showing visitors on your site that you have a twitter account and some examples of what you tweet about so they are more likely to follow you – my twitter feed is on the right [...]

Web Developers RSS feeds – design resources

RSS feeds are incredibly useful for receiving news and updates from your favourite sites and being a web developer they are a vital source of new information. I check my feeds daily on the way to and from work keeping up to date with news and events as well as reading tutorials from some of [...]

Web developers RSS feeds – WordPress

RSS feeds are incredibly useful for receiving news and updates from your favourite sites and being a web developer they are a vital source of new information. I check my feeds daily on the way to and from work keeping up to date with news and events as well as reading tutorials from some of [...]

Email unsubscribe links

Removing yourself from an emailer / newsletter database can vary from being a pain to next to impossible, if your lucky there is a link at the bottom that when clicked automatically removes you from the email list and thats it, if your unlucky you will need to login to your account and update your [...]

Getting images ready for use on the web

Introduction Images are fundamental to the modern web and they are used on nearly every single website you visit however it is important that images are saved correctly to make sure they will work correctly on the web. Preparing images for use on the web is easy and possible to do with freely available tools [...]

Website SEO with WordPress

What is SEO? Search engine optimization is vital for the success of websites of all sizes as it directly affects the number of visitors the website will receive from search engines such as google. Every website should have a SEO strategy in place to ensure that everything possible is being done to increase visitor numbers [...]

WordPress admin bar not displaying correctly?

after updating to wordpress 3.1 with its new admin bar it has not shown up correctly on this site, after looking at other peoples solutions i still could not fix the issue so i have overwritten it with the CSS to force the menu up by 57px 1 2 3 4 #wp-admin-bar-wp-logo {display:none;} .ab-top-menu { [...]

Creating a functionality plugin for WordPress

I have read a few interesting articles on creating a plugin for adding additional functionality to wordpress websites for dealing with shortcodes etc, the idea behind it is when you change the theme of the website you can simply install the plugin and not have to extract informaiton from the functions.php file in addition to [...]

WordPress Shortcodes

this is a quick tutorial on how to insert shortcodes into a wordpress theme to let users add content quickly and easily, the example we will be using is inserting social media links. this is the HTML code we want to insert when the users inserts the shortcode 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [...]