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Why You Should Use Firefox OS

Like many people I have a love-hate relationship with Mozilla.

They get a lot wrong. Firefox has been struggling as a browser. Their Persona identity system has failed to take off. They've suffered through some very public mis-steps.

But, Mozilla is also trying great things. Mozilla is trying to push open source into places where no-one else is capable of taking it.



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10 Minutes with WP Super Cache

Every time you load the frontend of your WordPress site makes many, many database calls. WordPress pulls together many different assets and compiles them into webpages.

This is really time consuming and can make your site run slowly.

WP Super Cache is a great way to make your site run more quickly.



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Learn Fabrik for Joomla

Fabrik is a highly flexible Joomla! component for building custom web applications. With Fabrik you can create forms that allow you and your users to enter data, then display the data in lists, map, calendars, timelines, charts and more!

In this week's new class, Vicki shows you how to create fantastic web apps with Fabrik!.



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How to Use the Ghost Interface

Welcome to the fourth post in our series on Ghost, the exciting new blogging platform.

Today will give you a walkthrough of all the important Ghost screens from your first registration to your detailed settings.



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Using the Drupal FullCalendar Module

If you want a calendar on your Drupal site, the FullCalendar module is one of your very best options. Some of the advantages of the FullCalendar module include:

It can look as professional as a Google Calendar
If you've got an existing Google Calendar, you can import to FullCalendar
FullCalendar makes it easy to move scheduled events; all you have to do is drag and drop.
You can color code events on many different criteria such as content type, date or taxonomy.


If you are interested in learning about the FullCalendar module, watch our three video introduction below, which is part of our much longer FullCalendar class.



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OSUrl - An Easy Way to Find the Real URL of a Joomla Page

Sometimes troubleshooting a SEF extension is one of the most difficult things to do, especially on a live site. Knowing the actual URL before it's converted to a SEF URL is usually one of the keys to solving the issue.



The OSUrl module is a useful Joomla extension that will help you to do just that. It will display the Joomla URL for the requested page.




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Smart Slider 2

One of our students was having issues configuring a WordPress slider that was buggy. So we suggested he give Smart Slider 2 a try instead and he was review of it was " I just accomplished in less than 30 minutes what I have been trying to do since yesterday. Very intuitive ui and gives me exactly what I was looking for."



So we created this tutorial for it so that you can see what it's capable of. Let's get started.




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Learn Easy Digital Downloads for WordPress

Say hello to Easy Digital Downloads, the world's easiest way to sell digital downloads through WordPress for free.

In this week's new class, our WordPress teacher, Topher, shows you how to launch your own products with Easy Digital Downloads.

We'll take you through the installation and set up, then we'll move on to payment gateways, reports, discounts and much more.



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Flexbox in CSS to Make Columns

Creating columns can be a tricky task in webdesign.

For many year webdesigners used tables to show content in columns. More recently, designers have been using CSS floats.

Flexbox is a CSS property that makes it possible display content in columns without the need of using floats or tables.

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to get started with this useful CSS feature.



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OSUrl - Find the Real URL of a Joomla Page

Joomla, along with all dynamic websites, has at least two version of each URL.

There is the Search-Engine Friendly (SEF) version which contain keywords that are useful and easy to remember. There are also the "original" version of the URL that is longer and harder to remember.

However, sometimes developers and site-builder do need to know the original URL. We've just released a module called OSurl that will help you to do just that. 

OSURL will display the original Joomla URL for any page you visit.



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