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November 10, 2015
Use Cloud Zoom for Thumbnail Galleries in Drupal
Cloud Zoom is a JQuery addon that provides image galleries that are ideal for shopping carts.
Cloud Zoom will show a small, thumbnail sized image. When you hover over the small image, you'll then get a large version of the image. This effect is really popular in e-commerce: you'll see it on Amazon.com and in Drupal Commerce.
Here's how to use Cloud Zoom in Drupal:
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Cloud Zoom will show a small, thumbnail sized image. When you hover over the small image, you'll then get a large version of the image. This effect is really popular in e-commerce: you'll see it on Amazon.com and in Drupal Commerce.
Here's how to use Cloud Zoom in Drupal:
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November 9, 2015
Make Your WordPress Site Look Like Our Breeze Demo
The OSTraining Breeze theme for WordPress is our training theme. We use it for many of our sample classes. We also wrote on the GoDaddy blog about our experiences getting Breeze published on WordPress.org.
Breeze is super easy to use and it allows you to customize key features such as the logo, colors and widgets.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to recreate the homepage from our original demo.
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Breeze is super easy to use and it allows you to customize key features such as the logo, colors and widgets.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to recreate the homepage from our original demo.
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Widgetkit: Google Maps and Image Galleries
In the first post in this series, I introduced you to Widgetkit, YOOtheme's toolkit for Joomla users.
In this second post, let's see examples of Widgetkit in action.
I'm going to show you how to install Widgetkit, then how to create Google Maps and also how to create a photo gallery from an image folder.
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In this second post, let's see examples of Widgetkit in action.
I'm going to show you how to install Widgetkit, then how to create Google Maps and also how to create a photo gallery from an image folder.
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New Video Class: Drupal 7 Security
This week's new video class is "Drupal 7 Security".
In this class, Robert gives a comprehensive overview of what you need to do to keep your Drupal 7 website secure.
Robert explains the importance of user permissions, the User 1 account and how to safely allow people to add content to your site.
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In this class, Robert gives a comprehensive overview of what you need to do to keep your Drupal 7 website secure.
Robert explains the importance of user permissions, the User 1 account and how to safely allow people to add content to your site.
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November 5, 2015
Shake Images with the jQuery Shakker Plugin
Adding a shaking effect to your images is an "interesting" way to get attention.
I'm going show you how to create a simple shaking effect for your images, using the jQuery Shakker plugin.
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I'm going show you how to create a simple shaking effect for your images, using the jQuery Shakker plugin.
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November 4, 2015
Customise the Joomla Admin With Your Logo and Brand
By default, the Joomla admin area carries the Joomla logo and brand.
This makes sense for a default Joomla installation, but often you may need to add your customers' branding. After all, your customer may have staff members who know little or nothing about Joomla.
The default administrator template in Joomla 3 is called Isis (insert your own joke here). I'm going to show you how use Isis to re-brand your Joomla admin area.
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This makes sense for a default Joomla installation, but often you may need to add your customers' branding. After all, your customer may have staff members who know little or nothing about Joomla.
The default administrator template in Joomla 3 is called Isis (insert your own joke here). I'm going to show you how use Isis to re-brand your Joomla admin area.
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November 3, 2015
How to Add Featured Image Support to a WordPress Theme
WordPress themes makes it possible to give your users control of many aspects of their site's designs.
One of the most common design features in themes are featured images. Many bloggers love to use large, high-quality images for their posts.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to add featured image support in a custom WordPress theme.
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One of the most common design features in themes are featured images. Many bloggers love to use large, high-quality images for their posts.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to add featured image support in a custom WordPress theme.
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The Free WordPress Training Weekend: December 5 and 6
We're pleased to announce that on December 5th and 6th, we'll make ALL our amazing WordPress classes viewable for FREE for those two days.
This is the weekend of WordCamp US in Philadelphia, so even if you can't attend the largest WordPress event ever, you'll still be able to improve your WordPress skills.
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This is the weekend of WordCamp US in Philadelphia, so even if you can't attend the largest WordPress event ever, you'll still be able to improve your WordPress skills.
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The Drupal 8 Dates You Need to Know
Yes, 1779 days after Drupal 7 arrived, we finally have a release date for Drupal 8.
As a result of this decision, two other important dates were set:
the end of support for Drupal 6.
the approximate release date for Drupal 8.1.
Read on to find out more about these important dates for Drupal, all taking place over the next six month:
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As a result of this decision, two other important dates were set:
the end of support for Drupal 6.
the approximate release date for Drupal 8.1.
Read on to find out more about these important dates for Drupal, all taking place over the next six month:
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November 2, 2015
How to Create Circled Images with CSS
One of our members wanted to display circled images in his website.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to use CSS to get the desired result.
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In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to use CSS to get the desired result.
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