Create a stylish QRcode for your business

By now, almost everybody who owns a smartphone knows about QR code. Most of the QR code you see are a bunch of black jumbled encoded data, if you do not pay attention, they all look the same. Boring and confusing…

Well, you CAN, actually decorate your QR code to be unique and stylish by adding your company logo or customized picture into it!

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Decoupling HTML From CSS

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CSS Zen Garden proved that we can alter a design into a myriad of permutations simply by changing the CSS. However, we’ve rarely seen the flip side of this — the side that is more likely to occur in a project: the HTML changes. We modify the HTML and then have to go back and revise any CSS that goes with it.

In this way, we haven’t really separated the two, have we? We have to make our changes in two places.

Author Jonathan Snook provided detailed examples of how to decouple HTML … Continue Reading

Use Google Docs to Monitor Your Website’s Uptime

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Have a website and want to know the minute your site is down? This simple Google Docs spreadsheet from Digital Inspiration can email you and monitor your website for free.

To do so, make a copy of the Google Docs spreadsheet. Then change the website URL to your website and the email address to your email. That’s the email you’ll be notified for uptime and downtime. Continue Reading

More Changes for FB Fan Page

More new changes has been rolling out for Facebook Fan pages. Got confused and need some guide? Here is a great course by FB that might help you quickly dive into the changes and get connected with your audience better.
Learn About Facebook Pages

HTML5 Cheat Sheet (Tags, Event Handler and Browser Support)

Got it all!

HTML5 Cheat Sheet - Tags
HTML5 Cheat Sheet By InMotion Hosting – A Virtual Private Servers Provider
HTML5 Cheat Sheet - Event Handler Attributes
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HTML5 Cheat Sheet - Browser Support
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Support Details — Tech Support Management

Just click a button and it will tell you what exactly you are using as your operating system, screen resolution, IP Address, etc… Neat!

http://supportdetails.com/

Enable Social Sign In on Your Ning Network

Enable Facebook

Check the box next to Facebook to enable sign-up and sign-in with that service.  This will bring up a lightbox.  You’ll need to create a new sign-up/sign-in Facebook App to enable Social Sign In.  Click on the “Create” link in the lightbox to get started.

You’ll be redirected to Facebook where you will sign in with your Facebook credentials.  You’ll then see the options to set up your app.  Name your new Facebook application and then agree to Facebook’s Terms and Conditions.  When you’re finished, click the “Create Application” button.  On the following page, do not click the “Save Changes” … Continue Reading

Getting Started With The PayPal API

PayPal is the most popular platform for receiving online payments today. The ease of opening a PayPal account and receiving payments compared to opening a merchant account with a traditional payment gateway is probably the number one reason for its popularity, with a close second being the comprehensive API that PayPal provides for its payment services. In this post, I will break down some of the techniques and approaches to working with the PayPal API, in order to make integration and troubleshooting simpler and easier.

Great article written by Eran Galperin recommended by Smashing Magazine.

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Permalink Settings — make your WordPress Url pretty

Ok, ever had a problem with the url look of your blog post(WP users) — they look something jumbled with “?”, “=”,”12345″, “p” — grrr, ugly!

Want to change that? Here you go:

  • Login as admin
  • Under Dashboard, click on “Settings”
  • Looking for “Permalinks” and click on it
  • You will see the common settings. Choose “Custom Structure”
  • Adding this line of code in the blank filed: “/%category%/%postname%”
  • “Save Changes”
  • Some of you might not have “.htaccess” file or that file is not writable. There will be some extra message showing after you save the changes.  The information looks like this:
  •  Then you … Continue Reading

Mobile Web Design Practice

Learning is a lifetime project, especially for us as web designers, if you want to keep the pace with the technologies, the demand of the clients, you got to learn — A LOT every day!

Recently a huge amount of change has been noticed in the field of internet services because now the users can access it through the mobile devices. Consequently there is a need for the web designers to be well equipped in this arena and the web designers must be able to design websites that satisfy these customers.

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