Our web development articles cover everything from programming tools, web development tips and other key information you may need to develop or maintain a website.
You will also find reviews of different web development platforms (Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, etc.), e-commerce options for online retail, web template design companies, hosting companies and more.
Before we begin, you must have access to your database. If you don’t, pass these instructions on to someone that does. It’s also a good idea to backup your database before making changes, just in case something goes awry…
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Seen this error before? Or seeing it right now and pulling your hair out? This is a common error involving Drupal’s filemanager and image modules (acidfree). Read on for the fix…
Drupal Error Message Causing You Pain? Read More »
Setting MX records manually can be useful if you want to host your site on one server but handle email via another server or hosting company. If you have access to WHM (Web Host Manager – the interface you typically get with a cPanel-based hosting provider on a multi-site plan), you can usually set MX records yourself. If you do not, submit a support ticket to your hosting provider.
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While Drupal’s forums function fine and provide simple forum functionality, many users want the advanced functionality and extra features that bulletin board applications such as phpBB provide. However, getting the two to work together can be a real pain. So here’s a tutorial on integrating the two. In this example we use Drupal 4.7.x and phpBB 2.0.x. We can’t guarantee that this tutorial will work for other versions, although it may be worth a shot. Finally, this tutorial assumes that you already have a working drupal installation…
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What is cache and why should I care? Your cache is used by your web browser, smartphone, and even gaming machine to decrease page loading time. By storing a copy of the page to load the next time you visit, your browser can skip the time associated with loading all the page’s objects and making database calls, something that happens every time the page is loaded. Typically the cache will clear on a page update – that is, when a page changes, your browser will reload the page’s objects and make new database calls to ensure you’re seeing the newest version of the page. However, sometimes caches get borked up and cause problems. That’s when you need to learn how to clear them. If clearing the cache doesn’t fix your problem, you may need to clear your cookies as well. We show you the quickest and easiest way to do that…
To get GIMP, the popular open-source image editing application, to recognize your GhostScript installation, you’ll need to set an environment variable in Windows as follows…
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Cpanel’s Mailman mailing list software is not all that bad for an open-source application. It provides quite a bit of flexibility when it comes to managing and administering your mailing list and its subscribers. The glaring problem? There is no easy way to export your list of subscribers! Here’s how to do it…
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There’s nothing more frustrating than updating your Drupal site only to be unable to login, and not having your admin password, therefore effectively locking you out of your site entirely. The first thing to try is to click on the lost password link, and have the password emailed to you. There is, however, a couple scenarios where this will fail to work…
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Sorry.google.com is the page Google serves you (or an application) when you fail to answer its human-verification question. Google has instituted this new policy – randomly checking to see if queries submitted to it (ie. searches) are done by human beings (as opposed to software applications). The purpose of this is two-fold. On the one hand, blocking the search query and redirecting the user to sorry.google.com alerts the user to potential spyware on their PC; on the other hand, it prevents users from utilizing software to query the Google search engine…
Sorry, What is sorry.google.com? Read More »
Website design can be intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. You can be in control of your website’s look and feel without feeling overwhelmed. Whether you’re looking for a blog template, a template for your small business, a bright-colored and flashy theme, or a more minimalist design, there are a number of easy website templates to choose from and you can even search by website type, keywords, functionality, and more…
Easy Website Templates: Get Your Site Running in No Time Read More »
Looking to change the default behavior of the Firefox address bar (i.e. when it conducts searches)? Right now, if you mistype a web address, it tried to find the website you were looking for, similar to Google’s “I’m feeling lucky” feature. The problem is, that’s not very useful for most people – as what are the odds it’s going to find it…
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Trying to login to Paypal, your bank or credit card account, airline website, Yahoo, MSN, or any number of other online sites and for some reason Firefox doesn’t ask you if you want to save your password? So, you have to type it in every time you want to log in. We show you how to force it to remember your passwords…
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