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Jul
30

Adding a custom iPhone/iPad Favicon

For those of you that don’t know  iPhone and iPod touch users can now save a “Webclip” bookmark to their home screens. “How exciting” I hear you say in a sarcastic tone. Well, in short it is exciting! With users using their phones more and more for web browsing it can really pay to have a nice custom iphone favicon that users will be able to relate too! So how do you do it? By... 
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Jul
30

Install Joomla on Xampp

There are a number of reasons why one would want to have Joomla running on their local development environment! You may just want to mess around with Joomla to see what you can break or improve, or you may just want to work on a clients website locally before committing your changes to SVN. it’s a very simple process to get going and the most time consuming step is downloading the files! What you will... 
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Jul
25

Selecting Child elements of $(this)

The ‘this’ keyword in jQuery is a very handy tool in your programming toolkit. If you are writing generic functions or you just can’t be bothered writing the id for the DOM element or if you are trying to access any of the child objects of a DOM, the $(this) object is the object for you. I’ll save the finer details of jQuery’s ‘this’ keyword for another day and assume... 
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Jul
22

PDF Opening parameters

It seems to be quite a common occurrence that a client will want to have their PDF link behave in a particular way such as opening at a certain zoom or page number. Luckily for us there is a bunch of options for opening a PDF from an html link! Setting the PDF zoom on open is very easy: http://example.org/doc.pdf#zoom=50 This will set the zoom to 50%. Setting the page number is also very easy: http://example.org/doc.pdf#page=3 This... 
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Jul
20

Adding CSS to JCE

Not everyone is a master CSS poet and this holds especially true when you are developing a Joomla site for a client with limited computer knowledge. Thankfully if you are using Joomla 1.5 and JCE there is a simple way to add a custom set of style sheet rules that the user is able to select from the styles drop down menu. The process is quite simple: Components -> JCE Administration -> Configuration scroll... 
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Jul
17

Finding your website niche

Finding your website’s niche is considered the hardest part of being a webmaster. You may have all the website coding skills in the world, and be the best graphic designer, but without a good idea what use are your skills? Pretty colours and technical designs will only get you so far, but if you have a good niche with quality content you will have people knocking down your door to view your website, almost... 
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Jul
17

Adding Windows Media Player to taskbar

Sometimes we may want to go about our computing, whilst still watching our favourite show in Windows media player. Sure, we could keep swapping back and forth between work/facebook/porn to keep up with the simpsons but that leads to inevitable frustration and missing of visual comedy. So what can we do about this? Well, you can either get a second monitor or use a TV out cable to watch your shows on the big... 
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