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How to resize and optimize images for the web using Adobe Photoshop

How to resize and optimize images for the web using Adobe Photoshop

How to optimize and resize an image for the web using adobe photoshpEver wondered why sometimes a web page with a few of graphics and images takes an incredible time to load?…I bet it happened to you more than one time.

Well here is why.

The person who designed that web page did not spend enough time in resizing and web optimizing the images, perhaps he did not even know that if you upload a picture to your web site as it comes out from your camera or mobile phone it will be way to heavy for the web standard.

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How to add products to your shopify account and have it synchronized in WordPress

How to add products to your shopify account and have it synchronized in WordPress

shopify control panelThis is a quick tutorial that will guide you through the steps of updating or creating new item pages for your Shopify account. I give for granted that you have already a WordPress Installation, are familiar with it, have already installed the Shopify Plugin for WordPress and configured in order to correctly pull the data from your Shopify account and display it to your WordPress Installation.

NOTE:
This tutorial aims at providing some guidance to a person that you have to set as responsible on updating a shopify account on your behalf.

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How to have a better control over your installed modules on Drupal

How to have a better control over your installed modules on Drupal

view of the modules using the filter module for drupalWhen you start a new Drupal website you have just a few modules installed so looking for the right one is not going to take a long time, however, as you progress in your developing content for the website, add more services and more interactivity, become more social and link Facebook/Twitter/ LinkedIn widgets and sharing buttons, add slideshows, ecommerce and who knows what else…..then, your modules are all over the place.

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How to remove the yellow background from Google adsense on Drupal

How to remove the yellow background from Google adsense on Drupal

google adsense ad with yellow backgroundIf you are reading this page probably you have already noticed that Google display ads with an annoying yellow colored background, (see image on the right). Google uses the “ins” tag by default in order to wrap this ads and many CMS systems and Themes, (WordPress / Drupal and  such), assign a light yellow color for this tag.

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How to organize the launch of your newly designed website

How to organize the launch of your newly designed website

Organize the launch of a newly designed websiteIn my previous article I have highlighted a list of priority checks that we, as the “Web Designer”, will be required to perform prior to set a customer website live. Now that we have already marked “OK” all this tasks on our clipboard we will feel more confident to start thinking at a proper launch and a series of events that will create a “momentum” all around our newly designed web site. 

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