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Custom Fonts and their use on Websites
A quick article explaining the selection and use of fonts on websites.
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Expression Engine Plugin to Redirect GET Variables to Expression Engine Segment URLs
This plugin will look at the GET URL variables and redirect the user to the segment version of the URL. For example, http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/template_group/?type=blue will redirect to http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/template_group/type/blue, or any template_group (it can be specified).
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Bash Script to Create a Virtualmin Server and Transfer Files and Database from Another Server
A bash script that creates a Virtualmin server then transfers files and the database from one server to the new Virtualmin server.
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Javascript Notification Box Using Cookies to Remember Close
This code will show a subtle notification box at the bottom of the website, which when closed will use cookies to remember the choice for subsequent visits. This is suitable for the EU Cookie Directive that came into force in May 2012.
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Interspire Email Marketer Subscription Plugin for Expression Engine
We have released a plugin for Expression Engine that allows a user to easily be subscribed to an Interspire Email Marketer contact list from an Expression Engine template. Perfect for a newsletter subscription form or a contact form thank you page if a user has opted in to receive newsletters.
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Center Aligning a Child Menu Drop Down with JQuery
It's tricky center aligning a drop down menu using CSS only, so we use a simple JQuery method to calculate the parent width and work out the child menu widths, and set them accordingly. If a user does not have Javascript enabled, then the menu still works, but is left aligned to the parent menu instead.
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Our Custom AddThis Code to use Bitly, Custom Title and Disable Cookies
There are many options and configurations the AddThis code could have for your setup. This is ours.
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META Tags for Expression Engine Template/Index Pages
Our custom META tag coding for SEO LITE, the META tag manager for Expression Engine
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100% Div Fixes Width When Using JQuery Cycle
If using a 100% DIV width for a jQuery Cycle container, jQuery Cycle will find the width of the container when its rendered and fix it to this width so when you then resize the browser the container stays at the fixed width.
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JQuery html() not parsing URLs properly
Solving the issue of JQuery html() not parsing URLs properly
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VirtualBox faster than Parallels
Am finding the FREE VirtualBox for Mac MUCH faster to run Windows 7 than Parallels Desktop 5.
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Joomla blank screen - how to show errors
If you ever have a blank screen in Joomla, it is quite likely due to some errors, perhaps PHP errors. Errors are turned off by default so in order to display your errors, add the following to your configuration.php file at the bottom, before the closing PHP tag, and after the closing curly bracket:
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