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Development Why Flash is Here to Stay There’s a huge debate stirring around the internet about the capabilities of HTML5 and it’s threat to Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight and other rich internet application (RIA) technologies. The amount of support behind HTML5 is encouraging and great to see, as it will only help it’s adoption by [...]

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To display 5 latest posts in each parent category of your WordPress blog, add the following code into the template that you want the result to appear. In our case, we added the following code into our 404 template page (404.php of current theme). Other places that you might want to display a list of [...]

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web 2.0 style call-to-action buttons can be purchased in psd format from graphic river Since writing How to style a Submit button in CSS a few months ago, I have found an alternative way to achieve the same result. In this example, we will be using <button> tag instead of <input> tag. The <button> tag [...]

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As seen on iPhone version of news.com.au today. Just thought it was funny because most of us would never ever associate a supermodel with a web technology.

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Use promo code WEBDEV30 to get $30 off from your dreamhost hosting package. Works for monthly, one year and two year hosting plans. Normal one year cost = $119.40 After dsicount = $119.40 – $30.00 = $89.40 WEBDEV30 The promo code expires on 30 October 2010.

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To turn off iPhone auto correction feature (predictive dictionary) on textboxes, add autocorrect=”off” attribute to your input tag. <input type="text" id="keyword" name="keyword" autocorrect="off" /> You can also turn off auto capitalising/capitalizing feature by adding autocapitalize=”off” attribute. <input type="text" id="keyword" name="keyword" autocorrect="off" autocapitalize="off" /> And lastly, you can turn off auto complete in a similar way. [...]

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Development 10+ Essential Tools for Windows Based Web Developers Web development is not an easy career path to follow- there’s so much competition around for jobs and the industry is advancing all the time. If you want to stay ahead of the pack, it’s important to familiarise yourself with the latest and greatest tools- tools [...]

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FireFTP is a browser plugin for Mozilla Firefox that lets you connect to a FTP server. By default, it doesn’t show any hidden files on the server, but you can change this via Options. 1. Connect to a FTP server using FireFTP 2. Click on Tools -> Options from the top right menu 3. From [...]

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So you don’t like ads. If you have a website that has ads, you are probably no stranger to people commenting that you have too many ads on your website. Usually, I just smile and nod when I receive such comment but today, I thought I’d write my thoughts here. You don’t have to agree [...]

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