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CSS Sprites Speed Up Your Site

CSS Sprites Speed Up Your Site

CSS sprites work by creating a single graphic with all your site icons, calling for it once, and using the background-position style attribute to show the appropriate section of the graphic. It sounds a little complicated and will take some work setting up, but your visitors will love you for […]

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Loading Your Site With Google Adsense Quicker

Loading Your Site With Google Adsense Quicker

You decided to add some Google Adsense to your website for a little ad revenue, but your web page loads much slower now. That’s because the browser is trying to call an external script (Google’s) and their Adsense servers seem to always run slow. Google wants you to put the […]

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Showing HTML, JavaScript, And PHP Syntax On Your Blog

Showing HTML, JavaScript, And PHP Syntax On Your Blog

So, you want to show web codes on your WordPress blog (or any website) but the web browser always executes it with the rest of your HTML? The trick for showing code on your website is actually pretty simple. Say you want to show the following code: <p>Lorem ipsum</p> You […]

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Quick Q & A: 1

Quick Q & A: 1

In this new segment, I’ll offer quick answers to questions I’ve received from comments, emails, or search queries. Can I install AVG Free 2011 over 9.0? You do not need to uninstall AVG 9.0 before beginning to install AVG 2011. During the installation, version 9.0 will be removed automatically before […]

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Using WampServer 2 For Local Web Development

Using WampServer 2 For Local Web Development

WampServer is a server environment that runs locally on your computer. It allows you to create web applications with Apache, MySQL, and PHP on a Windows computer. It also comes with phpMyAdmin to manage database information just as you would on your web host’s server. Installing WampServer is pretty straight […]

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Load YouTube Videos Quicker In Firefox

Load YouTube Videos Quicker In Firefox

A feature introduced in Firefox 2 called Session Restore can actually be slowing down the load times of Flash videos, like those found on YouTube and Daily Motion. The feature creates a “save point” every 10 seconds, so you can return back to where you were in case of a […]

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