Web Design & Development

Web design is the process of planning and creating a website. Here we’ll cover tutorials on several topics related to web design.

Domains and Hosting: What to Consider When Choosing Them

Businessman with Laptop in Network Server Room

The importance of publicising your business at every opportunity is high. You might have done all you can by putting posters round your local neighbourhood, advertising in the local press or even by creating pages on social media sites, but none of that is as effective as having your own company website. A click away from new customers Having a website could help …
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URL Shorteners: Creating a Customized Short URL

Customized Short URL

URL shorteners are increasing in popularity. This is because increasing numbers of people want to create a short URL for Twitter and other micro blogging and social networking sites while maintaining visibility of their brand or blog name. Several forward-thinking companies and website owners are succeeding in getting their shortened URLs recognized synonymously with …
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Icon Fonts: Pros and Cons of the Font Awesome Generator

Font Awesome Iconic Font Exa

Icon fonts are used to include certain standard icons in your website content. The Font 'Awesome' is a particularly good example of these that offers many advantages over other icon fonts. Originally designed by Dave Gandy for use with Twitter Bootstrap, Font Awesome can be used with WordPress by using the Font Awesome Icons plugin designed by Rachel Baker. Here is …
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How to Create Sub-Domains Using XAMPP

Subdomains

In the previous article we've been talking about how to set up XAMPP on your local PC and how to install WordPress on it. But what if you want to have multiple websites on your local server? You could simply create new folders and open them as www.example.com/ but that's just boring! How about creating a subdomain? Something like www.sub.example.com, now that looks like …
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Are You Making Use of the Powerful WYSIWYG HTML Editors?

WYSIWYG HTML Editors

‘What You See Is What You Get’ is a philosophy that Windows utilizes to work creditably well. Creating your own web page is not a cumbersome task to perform. You can make use of the Hypertext Markup language (HTML) which is the kind of language that makes extensive usage of the tags. HTML Editors might steal the show any day; you just need to find one that is suitable …
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