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WebMatrix Tutorial: Creating a Website With Web Gallery

This video steps you through the stages of creating a website using the Web Gallery in Microsoft WebMatrix. Download Microsoft WebMatrix here

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WebMatrix Tutorial: A Overview of the User Interface

This video gives a brief introduction to Microsoft’s newest web development tool WebMatrix. It gives an overview of the user interface as well as creating and adding files and folders to a website....

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WebMatrix Tutorial: How to Publish your Website

This video shows you how to set up a publishing destination within WebMatrix and takes you through the steps to allow you to publish your website to your host. Download Microsoft WebMatrix here

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How to make a HTML 5 Canvas Picture Gallery

This is a fantastic video which describes how you can use HTML 5’s Canvas to create a picture gallery, as used on Capital FM’s Website.

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FREE Azure Cloud benefits for MSDN subscribers

[ad name=”postsqrRight”]Microsoft’s Windows Azure Platform is an internet-scale cloud computing and services platform hosted in Microsoft data centres. It provides some incredible possibilities for...

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How to use HTML 5 video

One of the fantastic new features of HTML 5 is video functionality, this tutorial describes how you can use HTML 5’s video functionality to achieve custom video capabilities, as well as custom...

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How to use HTML 5’s Feature Detection

Here is a great tutorial on how to use Javascript to detect which features of HTML 5 enabling you to detect what the browser supports, so you can provide a good user experience without leaving users on...

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How to create a lightbox in CSS3 & HTML 5

This video tutorial describes builds on the tutorial I posted previously for how to create an picture gallery and shows how you can build a Lightbox on this to enlarge images in a large form.

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How to use square brackets in WordPress

If you have ever tried to use square brackets (e.g. [ and ]) in your posts it can be slightly frustrating when WordPress thinks that it’s a short code and tries to process it or simply remove it. The...

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Unruly Tech Night – Mini Robot Workshop

On October 19th I headed off to London for a Tech night with Unruly Media, one of the advertising distributors I work with to bring some of the funkier ads to the blog. I love attending any tech event...

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Stop Skype Hi-jacking callto:// links on your website

Skype by default installs plugins to users browsers which can often be a right pain in the arse for web developers, as they will usually disrupt the design and can cause some beautifully designed pages...

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Help! cPanel Login won’t autofil my password!

So for most people cPanel updated to 11.32 and there’s now a shiny new login form. Annoyingly cPanel in all their wisdom added autocomplete=”off” so the forms are no longer pre-filled which as someone...

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Can’t install Logwatch on cPanel server

I recently ran into an issue installing Logwatch on a cPanel server using yum. The yum reported that it was unable to install logwatch because required dependency “perl(Date:Manip)” couldn’t install....

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