HowTos

Whether you are working on your own project or redesigning a theme for your site much of your design formatting will be found in your CSS file. It is important to organize your css file not only so you can find things but also for function. In this howto we will look at a basic […]

You will find that there are times when processing numbers or displaying results is better done with a rounded number then an exact one.  For instance if you were displaying the number of songs on your website or the number of hamburgers you have sold you may want to use a description such as 25,000 […]

Sometimes when dealing with output from your database or other numbers you are processing you will want to format the number in a readable comma separated value. This is very simple to do with PHP by using the number_format() function. simply find the number where ever you are reading it from and store it in […]

Everyone who uses a sidebar widget or plugin will find the need to style the elements within the item block to match their theme layout and style but many people have problems debuging their elements and applying CSS. This HowTo will hopefully show you methods you can use to make these changes quickly. To get […]

If you are a theme developer it is useful to release some of your work to the public domain to attract users to your advanced themes. Some theme development sites will release a full but encrypted theme where some of the php code has been base64 encoded I strongly suggest that you do not do […]

Believe it or not there are installs of WordPress that are not viewable on the interwebs… and when you run your install behind a corporate or local firewall you may find that WordPress can not access all of its features. The problem is most visible when visiting your dashboard and none of the feeds are […]

The security fixes just keep on coming from the WordPress Team … I guess we should be happy that they actually publish them rather quick but two fixes in as many weeks is going to have a lot of people retrieving patches. The update repairs a problem with the XML-RCP remote publishing features and also […]

There are many reasons we make websites but if you are doing it professionally then the primary reason is to make money.  Everyone knows that to make money you need visitors and keeping them on your site viewing page after page filled with paying advertisements is your goal. Unfortunately some sites suffer from what is […]

Whether you are deploying a store for yourself or your design customers what you need in a Shopping Cart system is the ability to quickly manage products, inventory and allow for a variety of different payments and calculate shipping and handling costs based on one or more carriers. The osCommerce Online Merchant store continues to […]

Whether you are setting up a store for one of your customers or designing a payment method for your own customers one of the easiest ways to accept credit card payments online is PayPal. PayPal offers two basic ways to let your customers pay for products and services. The first which we will cover here […]