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Painless Migration From Ning.com | Where To & How?

Wed, 06/23/2010 - 10:22
Image representing Ning as depicted in CrunchBase

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Ning.com is going fully commercial by mid July 2010 and they no longer support free accounts. Most account owners are aware of this unfortunate change but the majority wouldn’t know what to do. Read more »

6 Important Tips For A Quick PrestaShop Setup

Thu, 05/13/2010 - 09:34

image I’ve been a long-time fan of an e-commerce system that’s very popular but quite painful to use. There’s a very short feature list that comes with the standard installation. If you want to add more themes and modules(add-ons), the only way is to “hack” through tons of codes and if you’re lucky it works. If not, you’re left with not so “virgin” codes and and a little confused. Read more »

Basic Image Editing Tutorial | For Use On A Blog or Ecommerce Site

Mon, 04/26/2010 - 07:24

Running a blog or e-commerce site usually requires the usage of images to increase its effectiveness.

This is more so true for an ecommerce site as it represents a normally physical outlet with goods people can see and touch. No website can fully match the real experience except trying to be close to that by displaying still images, sound or video. Using just a bunch of texts to describe a product may not be so appealing to most web visitors. Read more »

5 Easy Ways To Earn Money From Your Blog or Website

Sat, 04/24/2010 - 04:02

You have a blog which you post article quite frequently and it is getting a decent amount of visitors everyday. Now, you’re thinking if it is possible to generate some income out of it? Yes, it is possible but the size of your income will depend on many factors including: Read more »

Ping.fm Failed Posting Issue With Drupal Site

Sun, 04/18/2010 - 07:30

I love Ping.fm for I can submit a post to many sites by just sending to it. It then distributes it to many other sites automatically and these include Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook and lots of others. It’s also free to sign up and use.

In Drupal you start this by downloading and installing Ping.fm module.

Problem is, I’ve failed to get it to work until I got fed up and forget about it. I got this “Failed posting Ping.fm” error every time I wanted notify new post to Ping.fm. Read more »

An Elegant Solution for 3-Column Equal Height CSS Layout

Tue, 04/13/2010 - 05:17

The advent of CSS has made web layout tasks a lot easier than it used to be in the past. However one bugging problem for designers was how to achieve an equal height in a multi-column layout.

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OpenX Spits Out “$creative_html” Instead of An Ads

Tue, 04/06/2010 - 06:59

Recently I noticed that my site was showing some kind of error in place where OpenX was supposed to serve ads. As I had no time to troubleshoot, it was left that way for quite sometime.

This is what was shown in the OpenX ad zone, a phrase that says “$creative_html”. Hey, what does that mean?

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How To Redirect A Webpage Using PHP

Fri, 04/02/2010 - 01:52

u-turnThere could be several reasons you may want to redirect a webpage and here are some possibilities: Read more »

How To Create A Good Looking Ebook Cover

Sat, 03/13/2010 - 08:58

If you’re working on an eBook, report or software, sooner or later you’ll most likely need to have a cover to go with it among other things. In this case you actually have at least four options at your disposal:

1. Hire a designer

Perhaps one of the easiest but may not be the cheapest. As usual, head on to Elance.com or Guru.com to look for a suitable graphic artist. Typically quality can be the best if you’re willing to pay for it. Read more »

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