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Google Plans to Replace Google Site Search with Custom Search Engine ( CSE )

Google plans to discontinue Google Site Search, a product it has sold to web publishers that wanted to apply the industry’s leading search technology to their own sites. CSE Sign
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Joomla 3.7 is released with a ton of new features including custom fields!

Joomla.org has released the latest version of Joomla! with a load of new features. Joomla Developers around the world will be excited to try out the uses of these new
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In Magento Admin Panel and navigate to System > Configuration Rss Config section set Enable RSS to ‘Enable’. In the Catalog section set required feeds to ‘Enable’. An experienced Magento
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Why has WordPress taken a lions share of CMS market over others like Joomla and Drupal ?

WordPress is used to create 58% of most visited 1 million websites of the world! While Joomla and Drupal are great CMSes, its important to understand how wordpress got 58%
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PT to PX Converter & Font Size Measurements : Convert PT to Pixels, EMS and Percentages

Web design and any computer aided design industry all over the world uses different units of measurements to specify the sizes of the elements on a webpage or screen. On
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Recursively applying proper directory permissions for your live Joomla website

Applying proper directory permissions for your live Joomla websites is one important step in securing it from malicious users online. Use below commands to recursively set permissions to files and
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Inserting an Iframe to Joomla article using JCE editor

Have you tried to embed the an iframe in an article using the JCE editor in Joomla ? You may have been frustrated to see your iframe code stripped off
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How to stop Google indexing your site when it is under construction or maintenance

When you are creating a new website with Joomla or with any other method on a live server, Google might index the half-done pages and give you crappy search results
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Dashed and dotted lines with just one click in Photoshop CS6

Photoshop CS6 has some cool features which are top requests from any designer in the world. Such one is the ability to create dashed and dotted lines very quickly. In
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How to enable or disable JavaScript support in web browsers

This applies to following browsers:  FireFox / Chrome / Internet explorer / Safari / Opera To enable JavaScript in Firefox 2.xx or 3.xx series Open Firefox. On the Tools menu, click Options. Click
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Are All Search Engines the Same?

A web search engine or Internet search engine is a software system that is designed to carry out web search, which means to search the World Wide Web in a
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eCommerce mistakes you want to avoid when creating your online business website

Building a business based on an eCommerce website is aways a challenge, so it is important to get basic things corrent first time to succeed in the ever competitive online
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The CSS font shorthand rule

When styling fonts with CSS you may be doing this: font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: verdana,sans-serif And thats a lot of code to type
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Magento : How to replace the default logo in transactional emails

Here is a screenshot of the magento admin panel. Navigate through menu > System > Configuration> Design > Transactional Emails. Select and upload the logo , then set the ALT
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Joomla Contact Us Form Issue – PHPMAILER_RECIPIENTS_FAILED

PHPMAILER_RECIPIENTS_FAILED Some times this error occurs because default contact form tries to use users email address as the FROM address. Some hosts doesn’t allow this to stop spam. So we
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Database Error: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to database

You should check the configuration.php file of your Joomla application and make sure the following lines are correct: var $dbtype = ‘mysql’; var $host = ‘localhost’; var $user = ‘user_name’;
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Joomla Tip : Creating a new file on a joomla installation

Whenever creating a new file for the Joomla! installation you must avoid using certain text editors such as , WordPad, Word, for example as they unfortunately have a tendency to
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How to add CSS and Javascript to Your Joomla Extension

When creating a quality Joomla extension you will place your styles and javascript codes on seperate files. Then here is the way to add those files in to the joomla
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Redirecting non-www to www with .htaccess

If you want to redirect all non www requests to your web site to the www version, all you need to do is add the following code to your .htaccess
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Why it is better to have a Dedicated IP ?

Every small piece of information transferred on the Internet is passed via an IP address. This address is just like your home address, and like a physical address can contain
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Inserting an Iframe to Joomla article using JCE editor

Have you tried to embed the an iframe in an article using the JCE editor in Joomla ? You may have been frustrated to see your iframe code stripped off
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What is Joomla and Why do I need Joomla for my website?

Almost everyone who wants to publish a web site can benefit from using Joomla! to do it. Take a look at a few of the many good reasons to consider
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How to create a Joomla 1.5 Custom 404 Error Page

Joomla! CMS uses the templates/system/error.php file to handle several HTTP Status errors, including “403 Forbidden”, “404 Not Found”, and “500 Internal Server” Errors. You may style the error results by
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Remove featured products and recently viewed products from Joomla Virtuemart category browse page

go to: component/com_virtuemart/themes/browse/includes edit one of this files depending of what you have selected in layout style. browse_listtable.tpl.php browse_layouttable.tpl.php browse_notables.tpl.php Comment out following lines. echo $ps_product->featuredProducts(true,10,true); echo $recent_products; It should
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