How to add gadgets to a Windows 7 desktop
Posted on August 22, 2009 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | Leave a Comment
What good will a home Windows 7 installation will be without useful toys on your desktop? In Windows 7, these toys are called desktop gadgets and by default 7 comes with a handful of desktop toys that we can readily use. The most useful widgets, err gadgets, are here.
The dependable calendar, clock, CPU meter, curreny converter, feed reader, maps and others are here to use. Unlike Vista, they don’t open automatically after a fresh install, so you have to open them manually. To access the gadgets, type “desktop gadgets” on the search bar then click “Desktop Gadget Gallery” under the programs list:
How to create an image hover mouseover using Fireworks
Posted on July 5, 2009 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | Leave a Comment
To create web pages with dynamic HTML capabilities from scratch, we would traditionally need to master DHTML and that includes HTML techniques like image hotspots and JavaScript. In this tutorial I will show you how to automatically create DHTML pages with a swap image behavior using Adobe Fireworks.
The final output is a complete DHTML project complete with HTML, image files and JavaScript code – and those are done without any coding by hand.
How to create an elastic web page using Dreamweaver
Posted on April 21, 2009 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | 1 Comment
Unlike liquid web content that automatically adapts to a visitor’s browser width, the elastic layout adjusts depending on the browser’s text size setting. Relative to the size of the text, the elastic layout retains it’s form even if you resize your browser window. It is a good layout choice for page contents that you don’t want to automatically resize according to the browser width.
A sample elastic page at default normal font size is below:
A liquid design on the other hand will produce a squeezed layout if you shorten the width of the browser:
How to create web pages in Joomla!
Posted on April 8, 2009 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | Leave a Comment
We have shown you how to install Joolma and how to customize Joomla templates. Now I will show you how to actually add content to a Joomla page. Adding content or articles on a web-based CMS like Joomla is all done online. To be able to post articles, you will need to login to the user account that is allowed to post articles.
After logging in, click “add new article” to access the article editor page:
Basic Joomla installation tutorial
Posted on March 10, 2009 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | 5 Comments
Joomla is a popular web-based content management solution (CMS). As a CMS, it lets you manage your sites’ contents like documents, pictures, HTML and other web documents. This free web application could be used as your corporate or community website, complete with a secured login/logout for users, administration and of course content editing and management.
Joomla requires a PHP webserver and MySQL like the one packaged in XAMPP. We have written about XAMPP and SQLyog to guide you with the installation of the required software. The steps below will guide you with installing Joomla.
How to use CSS and invisible HTML tables to align webpage content
Posted on February 7, 2009 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | Leave a Comment
Alignment issues on your blogs and web pages is a common problem for beginning bloggers. If you need to put columnar content (like a newspaper or magazine presentation) however, you will not have a choice but to use tables. See our example below before and after I formatted the text:
BEFORE:
