Articles Tagged 'guide'
How To: Implementing Gravatar in your PHP Application
AbhishekGravatar or globally recognized avatar is a service for providing globally-unique avatars for different applications. It was started by Tom Preston-Werner but it's now owned by "Automattic", the company behind WordPress. This is the main reason why this service is free and is available to be used on PHP applications other than WordPress. Today, there are a number of people using this service. That's where Gravatar adds to the comfort of people because using it you can use the same avatar for different websites without even uploading an image to the website.
We'll now make a simple PHP application which shows you the Gravatar associated with an email. So let's get started without wasting any time!
How To Set Up Your Brand New Mac: Beginners Guide
Nicole DominguezSo, you've decided to take the plunge and purchase a new Mac? Great! Apple designs their computers with the user in mind, making Macs great for an absolute newbie, to even the most advanced experts. Personally, I have a Mac Book Pro and from unboxing to every day use, there is never a hassle. Everything is nice, clean and easy; which is why I'm here to guide you through the process.
The Beginner’s Guide to BuddyPress (Open Source Social Networking)
DarrenMBuddyPress is plugin that adds social network like abilities to the acclaimed CMS WordPress. Adding features like a better profile for your blogs writers which combined turn it into a fully fledged social networking site. Most of the possibly for this great plugin aren’t even existent yet! As more and more sites start to use BuddyPress its true power, and that of WordPress is astonishing.
The Ultimate Guide To WordPress Hacks And Customizations
Mark ThompsonIf you are looking to add new design features and functionality to your Wordpress blog, odds are there is probably someone who has already done it and shared the code on how to do it. There are a number of great resources you can use to find outstanding hacks, customizations, and tips to make your Wordpress blog more unique, user-friendly, and engaging.
1STWD Q&A E-book : Interviews With 25 Popular Bloggers
Dainis GraverisThis is my first ever made *.pdf e-book and I was very excited to see how many people will respond to my call and how their actual answers will sound like. Purpose of this Questions and Answers Interview e-Book was to explore and compare how experienced and well-known bloggers/designers think, how they organize their workspace, solve their problems, get inspiration and much more. Learn from them because as you can see their way of thinking works!
The Ultimate Guide to Twitter Theme Design
Anastasia MilesThis post will help you become a real Twitter theme design Guru. You will learn how to design the cool theme, where to draw inspiration or where to get/generate some free themes if you don't have time to create something on your own, don't know Photoshop or you are just lazy and spend most of the day enjoying the young spring sun :)
22 Handy HTML5 & CSS3 Tools, Resources And Guides
Daniels MekšsHTML5 and CSS3 are bringing new features to us and in this article you’ll be able to find some great tools, cheat sheets and much more you could need to master these new features. Maybe those new features aren't yet supported fully, but it's a very good thinking to learn new technologies now so you would be able to use them fully when they are supported. Be modern designer!
A Beginners Guide to PrestaShop – The Open Source e-Commerce CMS
Daniel KurdoghlianYou always wanted to create your own online store but didn’t had the knowledge how to start or what shopping-cart solution to use?
No Problem! In this article I will introduce you the key-features of PrestaShop, one of the most used open-source e-Commerce shopping-cart solutions out there, which is free to use and with a big community.
Tumblr: An Introduction Guide For Microblogging – Part 1
Matthew CornerTumblr is set to become the blogging tool of 2010 with its massive growth, yet still many people don't fully understand what Tumblr does, or how it works. If you've ever tried to start a blog, but found yourself struggling to find the time, Tumblr is something you're definitely going to want to take a look at.
Your New WordPress Website Step By Step. Beginner’s Guide
Just a few years ago only the most advanced Internet users knew what actually a blog is. Nowadays every kid hanging around seems to have a page on livejournal and you meet hundreds of websites hosted on Blogspot or say WordPress every other day in the search engine results or in the spam emails in your inbox. I would like to give you some insight into what actually a blog is and give a quick guide on starting a WordPress website.
