I This video tutorial will show how to turn an Ubuntu 14.04 desktop into a LAMP server. Watch as I install Apache, MySql, and phpMyAdmin to have a test server for building web pages. I also install VSFTP for a FTP server. Finally, I install Webmin for a w...
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In this video tutorial, learn how to change your search engine provider in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, or Chrome. This is a problem when adware or spyware changes your search provider when you install programs. It even happens with some legitimate ...
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Want to learn how to make you own animated images when Google's Auto Awesome won't? In this video tutorial, I take four simple images and a program called GIMP (GNU Image Manipulator Program) to make a GIF (Graphics Interchange Format). That GIF is animat...
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This video shows how to create a neon text effect using just CSS. In this video, I use simple HTML, CSS, Google fonts to create the simple neon effect that you see in the thumbnail. (For the thumbnail, I used 'delius unicase' from Google fonts.) For the ...
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Learn how to create a JavaScript Switch statement with this video tutorial. I create a simple script that adds a banner to the top of a webpage that shows a holiday greeting. I use static holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving, and show how to plan for ...
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THIS WILL NOT WORK ON LIVE ACCOUNTS. Learn how to hack a local forgotten password on Microsoft Windows 8 with this video tutorial. This video is used on Windows 8.1, but I've done this on Windows 8 as well. The only thing that is required is access to the...
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Being a nerd causes me to have a suspicion of any pretty girl that talks to me. Being online makes me suspicious of ugly girls that talk to me. (There are no girls on the Internet.) So, when someone like the girl in this photo shows up trying to friend me...
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Keyboard shortcuts (or hot keys) are extremely useful. They allow you to control programs while never taking your keys off the keyboard. This is very useful when you are a very fast typist. In this video tutorial, I show how to create a keyboard shortcut ...
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Build a image gallery using jQuery, javascript, CSS, and HTML using this video. This video takes an unordered list in HTML and converts it into a gallery. The photos are displayed in a bunch of small boxes and one large box. The large box displays the fir...
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When you need a test environment for your web design, this is a great solution. (I can not stress enough that this is not adequate for a production environment, but will work fine for a test environment.) This Ubuntu desktop can host web pages just like a...
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Google rich snippets can link your website or blog to your Google+ profile. WordPress and other CMS (Content Management Systems) are not often optimized for Google+ authorship. There can be a couple of things that may hold you back when trying to implemen...
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Are you worried about leaving your computer with a repair shop? Afraid that your private files will appear all over the Internet. In this video, I show how to backup your private data, delete your private data, and restore it when the computer returns usi...
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Backgrounds on images are a problem with websites. Unless your web page has a white background, that white background on your image is going to clash. In this video tutorial, I show how to remove that background so your page color can show through. Then y...
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Learn how to resize images with GIMP (GNU Image Manipulator Program). Often when you need to upload an image to your website, it is too large for your website. Or it may be slowing down your website to have such a large file when it is not needed. This vi...
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WordPress was originally created as blogging software. Most people don't know that it's more than just blogs. You can create a static website using WordPress. This video tutorial shows how to create, delete and move WordPress pages. This means you can run...
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This video tutorial shows how you can make a mobile menu with the jQuery slideToggle function. It's a pretty basic process. It has minimal CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and HTML (HyperText Markup Language) so you can style it yourself. This shows how to hi...
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Learn how to post in WordPress 3.6 with this video tutorial. WordPress is a popular content management system (CMS). It allows you to create content without having to worry about learning a lot of web design. It's a lot like getting a template and modifyi...
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Google Voice search will set a timer on your browser. Or just type it. If you do this on an Android phone, it will set the alarm as well. Who needs Siri? http://www.technoblogical.com/web-design/ Providing training since last Tuesday http://www.technobl...
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A Horizontal Accordion displays several elements at once. They expland and contract to focus on specific element. In this video tutorial, I use jQuery, HTML and minimal CSS. You can use this in a page design to display several popular posts or pages. Then...
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Simple jQuery accordions are easy to make with this video tutorial. Learn by example to create a collapsible biography page on websites. Place a lot of information on one page without taking up a lot of area. It's a pretty simple design with minimal CSS. ...
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This video tutorial shows how to create a jQuery mobile menu for your website. jQuery is a framework designed to make writing JavaScript easier. It's also written to work across several browsers. That means that you also have to write a lot less JavaScri...
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Create Dropdown Menus with just HTML and CSS by following this video software tutorial. All you need is a text editor and browser. You don't even need a server to server the page. This is best for desktop navigation. It works on all versions of Internet E...
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Ternary operators have three basic parts. The first part is the condition. The condition goes in parentheses. After a question mark, there is a bit of code to perform if the conditional is true. Then after a colon, you need to place what will happen if th...
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JavaScript tutorial on how to create an if else conditional statement in JavaScript. You can use this to test for one, two, or more things. In this video tutorial I show how to place it into a web page and use it to dictate background color in CSS. This c...
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This video tutorial shows how to import posts from Tumblr to WordPress. It shows how to do it on a WordPress.com blog or on a self hosted blog. Self-hosted blogs require a plugin and some extra configuration. On either one, this should save you a lot of w...
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JavaScript Constructors build objects in JavaScript. Nearly everything in JavaScript is an object. If it isn't an object, it's a property or method on an object. In this video tutorial, you can learn how to build constructor. A constructor builds objects,...
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This JavaScript Video Tutorial shows how to use variables. Variables are place holders for information. It is possible to assign a variable a value of any data type in JavaScript. The variable then assumes the same methods and properties of that data type...
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Video tutorial on JavaScript booleans. Booleans are a binary value. They equate to either true or false. That's a complex as they get. They are great for storing simple yes or no questions like whether someone is subscribed to your newsletter. Even variab...
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How is favicon formed? Favicons are icons to brand your websites. This video tutorial shows how to make them for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Android, Apple IOS, and Windows 8 Start Screen. Although, technically those last two aren't...
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Video tutorial on how to use Arrays in JavaScript. Arrays will store multiple values or objects in one variable. Since an array is an object, you can even store arrays in arrays. Then you may add, remove or even retrieve individual values of a variable. A...
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Video Tutorial on how to design a website for WordPress. It isn't perfect. However, it is a functioning theme. Fairly impressive since it takes less than two hours to do. It's a live code, so I make lots of mistakes, but I was quite pleased with how it tu...
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Quick video tutorial about JavaScript numbers. Numbers are pretty straight forward. There is only so much you can do with them. You can add, subtract, multiply, divide, or use a modulo. JavaScript is not very precise with numbers so there is an upper and ...
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Strings are one of the available object types that come with JavaScript. They can be enclosed in double or single quotes. If you need to include a single or double quote inside of the same, you need to use an escape character ("\"). There is one property...
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Make a JavaScript comment with this video tutorial. This basic video shows how to leave a single line comment or a multi line comment. It works in an HTML file or an external JS file. It is important to leave comments in your code, because the next person...
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JavaScript is a client-sided scripting language. It is a programming language that is performed by a browser to add extra functionality to a web page. It is primarily used by web browsers. This is just a beginning tutorial showing how to embed JavaScript ...
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Image sprites make it possible to use a single image for your entire page. Through the magic of CSS, you can place the image as the background of all the buttons and small little graphics on your website. Then when you use cascading style sheets to positi...
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DISCLAIMER: Please read the following warning. The following video tutorial illustrates how to configure your Windows computer to use a proxy server while using Internet Explorer, Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Google Chrome. You can utilize all these b...
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White-space property in CSS defines how white space should be treated in your HTML. There are several values available. normal: this will delete all extra white space and and line breaks. Unless a break tag or another HTML element is used. inherit: This ...
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vertical-align is a CSS property that aligns text according to the line height. It can move text up or down to it's relative position. There are several options available. It works best when you have smaller text inside a paragraph of larger text. text-to...
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Text transform property in CSS will cause text to appear as either all uppercase, lowercase, or capitalize every word. It also has the values of inherit and none. This is a CSS property for heading tags. http://www.technoblogical.com/web-design/ Providin...
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text-shadow creates a shadow behind text. While box-shadow can create a shadow behind any HTML element, text-shadow works only with text. Box shadow will create the shadow around the HTML element as a whole. Today's HTML tutorial video does not work on In...
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text-indent property in CSS will allow you to indent the first line of text HTML elements. It's great with paragraphs. You can use positive or negative numbers. the measurements available are in (inches) mm (millimeters) cm (centimeters) pt (point or 1/72...
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text-decoration property in CSS allows you to change the way text appears on a website. Several options are available with cascading style sheets. overline: Places a line above the text underline: Underline all the text line-through: Works similar to the ...
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Text-align CSS property decides whether text should appear in an HTML element. You can choose to align it to the left, right, center, or justify. This is a pretty basic property in Cascading Style Sheets, but very important. http://www.technoblogical.com...
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Pseudo-elements are a lot like HTML elements but they are used in CSS, so they are a weird mixture of both. There are four available for text are first-letter: This will apply CSS to the first letter of any HTML element. first-line: Use different CSS on t...
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CSS can be used on tables to do a great many things. You shouldn't store in tables what you wouldn't store in a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Office Excel. We used to use tables for styling elements. Now that we have CSS, you should use it to positio...
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Position property in CSS will place HTML elements on a web page in specific areas. position inherit: causes the HTML element to inherit the property from its parent item position static: puts the element in the normal flow of the web page position relativ...
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This video tutorial shows how to increase relevancy in Google Adsense. Google has two tags that focus adsense to the content of your page. This means that it will rank those sections higher and all other sections lower. Since This causes Google Adsense to...
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