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Goodbye Firebug. It's Time to Use Firefox Dev Tools Instead.

For many years, Firebug was one of the most helpful tools available to web developers and designers.

Firebug, launched back in 2006, was an add-on that integrated with the Firefox browser. It helped you to insect HTML elements and modify your designs directly in the browser.

However, Firebug has reached the end of the road after 10 years. Go to the Firebug website and you'll see this message:



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Firebug Has Been Discontinued

Firebug was the most helpful tool for web developers and designers.

Firebug was an add-on that integrated with Firefox browser helped to insect HTML elements and modify its design in real time. That was my favorite feature of many.

Recently, the developers announced on the Firebug website that this extension won't be develop or maintained any longer.



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Install Drupal with XAMPP on Windows

An OSTraining member asked how to setup Drupal with XAMPP so that they could work with multiple Drupal sites.

This tutorial will show you how, step-by-step.



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How to Contribute Your Code on Drupal.org, Part 2 starting a sandbox project

Welcome to the second part of our series about how to contribute to Drupal.

Previously we covered signing up to Drupal and setting up our account. This time we will guide you in the creation of a new sandbox project. Let's start...



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How to Contribute Your Code on Drupal.org, Part 2

Welcome to the second part of our series about how to contribute to Drupal.

Previously we covered signing up to Drupal and setting up our account, this time we will guide you in the creation of a new sandbox project. Let's start...



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How to Add Responsive Facebook Videos to Your Website

Facebook allows you to embed videos from their site in your own website.

However, by default Facebook videos are not responsive.

In this short tutorial, I'm going to show you how to make your Facebook video embeds responsive by adding a few lines of CSS. Let's start...



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Responsive Facebook Videos on Any Website

Facebook allows you to embed videos from their site in your own website.

However, by default Facebook videos are not responsive.

In this short tutorial, I'm going to show you how to make your Facebook video embeds responsive by adding a few lines of CSS. Let's start...



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How to Use Drupal Message Notifications

An OSTraining member asked us how to set up message notifications in Drupal. This allows you to control the messages sent to your site's users.

These messages are used for everything from letting authors know about comments on their articles, to notifying customers about purchases in Drupal Commerce.

Once you install the required modules, you will notice a working notification example already exists, making the setup process easier. 



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What's Happening With Drupal Commerce in Drupal 8?

In the last few weeks, there's been some controversy in the Drupal community. Acquia launched a major partnership with Magento, which has left some people wondering about the support for Drupal Commerce. There had already been some nervousness, because Drupal Commerce 2 has been slow to arrive in Drupal 8.

So, what's happening with Drupal Commerce?

First, I would recommend you read Dries' post on Acquia's plans for e-commerce. "Open source e-commerce" by Maxime Topolov also has some useful background information.

Next, I'd highly recommend that you watch this video from Ryan Szarma, one of the lead developers of Drupal Commerce. This video was recorded at Drupal 8 Day. Ryan covers the history, architecture, and features of Drupal Commerce 2 on Drupal 8. There was a lot of interest in Ryan's presentation, with over 30 minutes of questions afterwards.



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How to Add Microdata to WordPress Pages

Microdata makes it possible for search engines to understand important details about your site's content.

We talked about WordPress microdata in a previous blog post. However, this time we will go more specific and show you how to add Products microdata to your WordPress pages without using a plugin.

This is very useful to promote the value of the products you sell through a WordPress site. Let's start...



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