A favorite icon or “favicon” is the little icon that shows up in the URL bar of your web browser when you visit a site on the web. It also shows up in your list of favorites next to each site you’ve saved, at least until you clear your cookies and internet cache. For this […]
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How to transfer a domain quickly
I’m always working on websites, helping a friend upgrade their blog or move from one host to another. Often, one of the most annoying and time consuming tasks involved with this is transferring a URL from one domain registrar to another. Done improperly this can take upwards of one week to complete! That’s valuable time […]
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This can be a funny thing to try to name and explain but I think the phrase YouTube time link just about sums it up. Let’s say you’ve just found a YouTube you want to share with your friend, but it’s really long and you don’t care about the first half! Did you know you […]
Read the rest of this entry »How to get GPS coordinates from Google Maps
Google Maps is a great tool that makes finding locations visually or by address very easy, and it works anywhere in the world! Ever since Google acquired the technology to make it work in 2004 from Where 2 Technologies, it has continued to expand with bike routes, street view and making it available on mobile […]
Read the rest of this entry »How to comment out code in WordPress theme templates
The WordPress publishing platform is built on PHP and the underlying theme templates that control the way your blog or website look when published also employ PHP code which produces HTML. This HTML is what visitors see rendered by the browser when they visit your site. What this means is, if you want to comment […]
Read the rest of this entry »How to edit HTML on TextEdit for Mac
I’m always switching back and forth between my PC and Mac. One of the things I love about PC when editing websites is that Notepad defaults to plain text, there isn’t any formatting or anything that will mess up your code. By contrast, on my Mac TextEdit defaults to rich text and preserves formatting. It […]
Read the rest of this entry »How to get javascript to validate xhtml
I’ve been updating the CSS and HTML on one of my sites to validate and in the process have had to solve a bunch of little bugs. One bug that proved very difficult to solve at first involved inline javascript. I was using a few lines to create a widget that scrolls down the side […]
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