This tutorial is for Gimp version 2.8 and is intended to teach users how to design a 125px x 125px advertising banner for use in website sidebars and elsewhere. These advertisement banners are perfect to use on your WordPress site with the WordPress Ad Widget plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/ad-widget/), though 125×125 pixels is a common and popular […]
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Developer Journal: Researching Web Design Portfolios & Case Studies (Collage by: Eric Hepperle Designs, 2018 | Credit: “Notebook Flat Icon Vector.svg” by Videoplasty.com; “pexels-photo-943096” by Danny Meneses)I’ve recently discovered the need for a decent web developer portfolio. Now, I’ve been aware of web developer portfolios for a while and I’ve seen some good ones. But,
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This is part of a new series I’m starting called Developer Journal. Posts in this series discuss my challenges — various programming and design topics I’m trying to figure out. I take you on my journey of learning and discovery. You get to experience my process for problem-solving and troubleshooting technical issues. While these are
Picture this. You just finished building a very basic WordPress website using any one of several popular contact form plugins including WPForms, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, Pirate Forms, or the old stalwart (and arguably the easiest contact form plugin to set up and configure), Contact Form 7. Maybe you’ve designed a detailed custom contact form
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10/26/14 6:21 PM Today I took it easy, didn’t go anywhere, and slept in until 10 AM. I transferred a bunch of tutorials and software to my Seagate Backup Plus external USB hard drive, from my Western Digital MyBook array, so that I could source everything from my 1TB Seagate. I installed VoidTools
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2014.10.22 Today so far Today is my younger brother’s birthday, so I called an wished him a Happy Birthday. Since this is day 2 of easing back into eating from my fast, I ate a can of Amy’s Thai Coconut soup. It was delicious! I also spent about an hour or so adding images and
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ORIGINAL PROBLEM I spent hours tonight struggling with this Google Apps script I wrote to serve as custom functions or advanced macros. I adapted it from this StackOverflow post. The main issue I ran into was comparing dates. Here is my research path, and hopefully, some indicator as to why it took so long: STEPS
Just a quick note. One of the the things you can spend days researching is HOW TO FIX BROKEN VIDEO/AVI FILES? I tried various utilities. For those new to to this topic let share what my experience has been: DivFix and VirtualDub (NanDub) are the venerable standbys that folks in the know have been using
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This post contains my notes about an issue I troubleshot with Comodo browser blocking localhost. These are some other related search queries that could land you here: Can’t Open ColdFusion Administrator in Opera or Internet Explorer 7 Can Ping Localhost, But Can’t Browse Below are some resources I found when searching for answers and solutions
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Facebook Obsoletes Less Than Year-Old Facebook Application Development For Dummies Book! 2012.04.17 Just a quick rant here. In what must be some kind of record, Facebook has pretty much made obsolete the book Facebook Application Development For Dummies (Wiley, by Jesse Stay), which I purchased about 7 months ago (August 2011 — only 3 months
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