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If you have landed on this article, there is a good chance you are thinking about or ready to start setting up a WordPress website. Well, as WordPress users ourselves, we could not agree with this decision more! Keep reading to find out why WordPress can be a great choice for anything from a blog to a realtime e-commerce site.
Is WordPress Easy To Use? We Think So, Here’s Why Read More »
Looking to create your own website but don’t know where to start and don’t want to pay a developer or designer thousands of dollars? We’ve got your back! We’ve written a comprehensive web series with details on each step of the process, and independently reviewed recommendations of providers. However, I know that for a business owner time is a precious commodity, so I’ve put together this express guide to get you up and running right away…
How To Build A Website From Scratch (In One Day) 2024 Update Read More »
Two seconds or less. That’s how fast people expect a website to load. It’s common knowledge that a site’s speed impacts user experience, but how important is a quick website? While one to two seconds seems exceptionally fast, today’s website visitors are accustomed to short load times, and slower websites are penalized when users abandon a website in favor of a quicker, user-friendly option. In a world of instant gratification and content at your fingertips, a slow website could mean decreased site visits, reduced conversion rates, and low sales revenue.
In order to prevent the misinterpretation of special characters such as a space, bracket (< and >), or % in the URL (which stands for Uniform Resource Locator – it is the address you see in your browser’s address bar indicating the location of the website you are visiting), browsers parse certain special characters using escape characters. This explains why when you click on a link such as: domain.com/page one.htm you see it parsed in the address bar as example.com/page%20one.htm. In this case the %20 is the escape character for the space…
A Complete Guide To URL Escape Characters Read More »
Woman on computerIt’s important for any web developer to thoroughly test the rendering of their pages by various browsers in use today. The question is – how do we know which browsers are currently being used? There are many sites out there that offer various browser usage statistics, but more often than not, the data is simply a reflection of visitor-usage stats for that particular site. For specific client bases, this may not be a problem.
Comprehensive Guide to Testing Browser Compatibility Read More »
Before Drupal, I used development environments where I could comfortably update snippets of content on multiple pages (at times literally hundreds) in seconds. Since delving into the CMS (Content Management Systems) world, and particularly Drupal, I have become fond of all the features, and especially the support community, that CMS users benefit from. However, I wasn’t able to find a way to easily update all my nodes.
Exporting and Importing Drupal Nodes Read More »
Protecting Drupal data is slightly more complicated than a locally stored, static-file website, since all the data is stored in a database. Therefore the key to backing up your data is to backup the database. Here I outline a process that works for me. I do not make any guarantees as to the correctness of this information nor will I be held responsible for any problems you encounter as a result of its use.
Backing Up and Restoring Drupal Using a Migrate Module Read More »
XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. XML is a meta language based entirely on user-specified semantics. It is therefore possible to create a page structure with user-defined tags and a DTD or XML Schema to describe the data. In other words, the XML describes itself. XML was designed to store, carry, and exchange data; not to display data…
Useful XML and XSLT Tutorial with Example Stylesheet Read More »
I have encountered this problem off and on. Read on for a list of possible reasons that cause Firefox to hang…
What to Do When Firefox Stalls or Hangs Read More »
The ability for Drupal to run multiple sites from one account is a huge plus for admins that are deploying multiple Drupal installations. The simple reason for this is that all Drupal installations can be updated at once. Basically each additional domain “points” to the document root of your primary Drupal installation. All you need to do to update the files of each additional Drupal site is update the files in the root install once…
Drupal Multisite Configurations and Hosts Read More »
Pre-css most centering was accomplished using the grid-like structure that tables provided. All fine and good, but the CSS positioning module offers layout options that tables could only dream of. Here’s how to vertically and horizontally center an element in pure CSS…
How to Vertically and Horizontally Center CSS? Read More »
HTML escape character lists often include characters between 128 and 159 – the problem is that these are Microsoft specific, and are reserved for control characters in the standard Internet character sets. In HTML they are undefined, and in XHTML they are completely invalid. Read on for a list of valid HTML escape characters you should use….
Looking for a List of Valid HTML Escape Characters? Read More »
