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  • WordPress Wednesday: WordPress Plugin Competition

    Mark announced the new WordPress plugin competition. The past plugin competitions have been highly successful which have helped benefit the WordPress community with excellent offerings. I’m sure this years will be the same if not better. The plugin competition will begin on the 10th of May and will last till the 10th of July. (0)

Tool Tuesday: Optimize your CSS with CleanCSS

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), a very effective thing for a site / blog these days. They give you the chance to be completely consistent with the look and feel of your pages, while giving you much more control over the layout and design than straight HTML ever did.
The speed of your site also depends on [...]

Posted by Rishi under CSS, Design and Development, Techtites Daily, Tuesday
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Tool Tuesday: Lorem Ipsum Generator

If you’re familiar with free templates, or have been working in the printing industry you would have come across this text often:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea [...]

Posted by Ajay under Design and Development, Techtites Daily, Tuesday
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  • Netvibes UWA Launched

    Netvibes has announced the launch of Universal Widget API. The Universal Widget API will replace the Mini-Module API that was used on Netvibes and will make it easy to assemble a widget for any given web service. Are you creating any widgets? (0)

Software Saturday: PortaPutty

Almost everyone who has SSH access to their accounts will be well aware of PuTTY which is a free Telnet and SSH Client.
PuTTY has saved tonnes of time because using shell is a definite time saver over most other methods.
If you have just one site to manage, then it isn’t a problem. However, if you [...]

Posted by Ajay under Design and Development, Hosting, Internet, Saturday, Software, Techtites Daily
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Tutorial Thursday: Backing Up your mySQL Database

cPanel (most control panels actually) provides you with phpMyAdmin which is what we will use to backup our mySQL database.
Though you can backup your complete database at one go, I recommend making two backup files, one containing the Structure and the other containing the Data.
Why? Simply because your structure will usually remains same (unless you [...]

Posted by Ajay under Backup, Design and Development, Techtites Daily, Thursday, Tips and Tutorials
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  • Using the ROBOTS META tag

    The Google Webmaster Central Blog has an indepth article on Using the Robots Meta tag to instruct Google and other search engines about your site. (0)

Tool Tuesday: ExamDiff

My extensive development and maintenance work requires me to work with a lot of code. The worst part of maintenance is keeping track of what changes have taken place. Most of the time I don’t need to worry about the software I am upgrading.
However, I need to worry about the same whenever I have modified [...]

Posted by Ajay under Design and Development, Software, Techtites Daily, Tuesday, Utilities
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