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G oogle introduced new themes for Blogger in 2017 and if you have applied those to your blog, great! Congratulations! In this post, we shall see how to display Google Adsense after the featured post or first post on Blogger new theme 2017. Not just Adsense, we can add and display anything else if desired. Read more »

Contact Forms are great to let website visitors contact you for any queries or for specific purpose. Contact Forms are found on most websites nowadays. When we build a website, we usually include a “Contact form" on the website for users to contact us. Once we buy a domain and hosting services from a service provider to host the website, we also usually get email address along with it. And it looks professional to have emails with the website domain name instead of using internet email such as gmail or Yahoo mail. In this post, we shall see how to setup Contact Form and how to receive emails sent from the website. Read more »

Google Adsense is the preferred advertisement platform for most Bloggers. It is very easy to implement. It can be added to the Blogger site in so many ways. But basically, in three ways - 1) By choose to auto display ads by Blogger 2) by adding the Adsense code in HTML/JavaScript widgets or 3) directly adding in the Blogger template. Read more »

The 'featured image' feature in WordPress is a way to assign a separate image to be displayed as post thumbnails in post feeds such as recent content, related content, category posts, etc. But there are times when a developer may want to hide the featured image on individual posts and pages, show on some posts and not on others. In this post, we shall see how to hide featured image on WordPress single posts and/or pages content. Read more »

Do you take screenshots frequently? Are you still taking screenshots using "Print Screen" and Microsoft Paint? Not satisfied with Windows Snipping Tool? Then it may be time to find an alternative screen capture software. In this post, we shall check out Lightshot. Probably, one of the best free screen capture software for Windows. Read more »

S liders or Slideshows are dynamic elements usually displayed in home page of websites. Usually with a catchy background image and phrases, they grab attention. They are great additions to any websites to add more aesthetics to websites. Since they are dynamic, websites look more grand and alive. They can also be used to display important content and graphics to engage with visitors. And though sliders are not so good in terms of making websites easily accessible on mobiles over data network due to higher load times, it has still become a standard web design layout.  Read more »

I n this post, we shall see how to download a website from live server to development local computer. I will be using a Drupal website as an example. On the local machine, I am running XAMPP stack on Windows. But the process would generally be the same for any other CMS or website for that matter. If you are looking for how to move or upload a website from local development computer to a live production server, following the steps here. Read more »

I normally use XAMPP for web development on my local Windows machine. And I needed to move the website files from one computer to another as I have a new Windows laptop on which I would be doing my web development activities from now on. So, I needed to move the existing website files from the older computer to the new computer, along with the database of the website. If you are in a similar situation, refer to the steps below how to move the websites from XAMPP on one computer to XAMPP on another computer. XAMPP is a free and open source cross-platform web server solution stack package developed by Apache Friends, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB database (supports MySQL) , and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.     X = Cross Platform / Any Operating System     A = Apache Web Server     M = MySQL / Maria DB     P = PHP Programming Language     P = Perl...