CSS Background Image Map
Posted on January 25th, 2010
This is a neat little trick that will allow you to create multiple clickable areas over any background image using CSS. This is easier, to me, than making image maps in HTML used to be.
First add a background image to an element on your page in CSS like this:
The background of this box is an image. (more…)
Removing The Dotted Outline
Posted on January 25th, 2010
Anchor links (<a>’s) by default have a dotted outline around them when the become “active” or “focused”. In Firefox 3, the color is determined by the color of the text. I believe in previous versions and in some other browsers it is by default gray. This is default styling for the purpose of accessibility. For folks without the ability to use a mouse, they still need some visual indicator that they currently have a link active (so, for example, they can press enter to navigate to that link). (more…)
htaccess Cheatsheet
Posted on January 23rd, 2010
Here is a simple cheatsheet for the .htaccess file:
Enable Directory Browsing
Options +Indexes
## block a few types of files from showing
IndexIgnore *.wmv *.mp4 *.avi (more…)
How to create a simple WordPress theme
Posted on January 23rd, 2010
This tutorial will show you how to create a simple WordPress theme. When building your own theme, you can use our Free Wordpress themes for reference.
How to create a basic WordPress theme?
To start building your theme, first create a sub-folder in the wp-content/themes directory in your WordPress folder. For the purpose of this tutorial, we will call the folder “tutorial_theme“. The name of the folder should correspond to the name of the theme you want to create. To do this you can use either your favorite FTP client or the File Manager tool in your cPanel.
Before you start creating the theme, you should decide how the layout of your website will look like. In this tutorial we will build a WordPress theme that consist of a header, sidebar, content area and a footer ,as shown below: (more…)
How To Test Your Computers Security
Posted on January 23rd, 2010
I thought I’d put together a few ways of testing your systems security setup. These are not virus or malware scanners but various ways of testing your current security software.
This is Part One of my Guide – Part Two of the guide covers more. (more…)
How to Activate Windows XP Without a Genuine Product Key
Posted on January 23rd, 2010
- Click on Start
- Find and Click “Run”
- Type: Regedit
- Click the plus next to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE”
- Click the plus next to “SOFTWARE”
- Click the plus next to “Microsoft”
- Click the plus next to “Windows NT”
- Click the plus next to “CurrentVersion” (more…)
Power Your PC With 45 Free Applications
Posted on January 23rd, 2010
File System Utilities
1 CCleaner
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system make Windows run faster. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. As a today, CCleaner has over 350 million remarkable downloads!
Link: http://www.ccleaner.com/
Show apps that use internet connection at the moment
Posted on January 23rd, 2010
$lsof -P -i -n | cut -f 1 -d ” “| uniq | tail -n +2
show only the name of the apps that are using internet (more…)