August 30, 2010
by Mark Wilkinson in Tutorials Tags: iPad, iPod, Mac, Movies, Streaming, Video, WiFi
iPod and iPads all have the ability to watch movies and videos on them. However my iPod (iPhone) and iPad have a limited amount of storage space on them. Therefore I can’t save all my videos onto the devices themselves. But hang on I already have all my videos on my Mac which is on the same WiFi network as my handheld devices. So how can I watch movies and videos on the iPod and iPhone, streaming them over WiFi from my Mac? Well here is how I have done it.
The great thing about Macs is that they have so much functionality built into them already, without have to purchase various different pieces of software to carry out this and that. One such thing that sprung to mind when I cam across this problem was that your Mac is a web server.
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August 21, 2010
by Mark Wilkinson in Tutorials, WordPress Tags: cPanel, Hosting, Migration, Server
There are lots of different web hosts out there and sometimes it can pay to move your site from one host to another in order to get both the best price and the best service. If you have a WordPress site and you are worried about moving the site to a new server then don’t, the process is straight forward and here is how to do it.
Lets think a little about how your website points to the current server. Usually the domain registrar is the service which controls the DNS for your domain name. This means it controls where your website is stored i.e. which server it is on. Something there could be some different name servers set by the registrar but you will need to change these anyway.
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August 19, 2010
by Mark Wilkinson in Tutorials Tags: Domain, Shortening, URL
URL shortening services are plentiful at the moment. With micro blogging services such as Twitter restricting posting to 140 characters we need to shorten URLs can can waste those valuable characters. I have always wanted to keep URL shortening to a domain of my choice rather than using bit.ly or tinurl etc, mainly because I am curious. Here is how I have done it.
A quick search on the Internet and you will find several offerings of different solutions of how to shorten URLs using your very own domain for example Google offer a url shortening service for their domain app customers. However some of these seemed quite complicated and I just wanted something really simple. As I was not bothered about statistics or anything I just wanted something where I could enter the domain I wanted to shorten, press go and then it would provide me with a shortened URL using the domain I wanted.
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August 14, 2010
by Mark Wilkinson in Tutorials, WordPress Tags: Clients, Development Logs, Multisite, Projects
Over at Equal Web Creative I have recently introduced the use of client development logs so that clients can keep a track of the progress on their sites and so that you can communicate more effectively with clients during a project. In order to implement this I have used WordPress as a multisite installation as well as a few themes and plugins. Here I intend to explain how I have produced this.
To start with your will need to install a copy of WordPress onto your server and then activate the multisite capabilities of WordPress. To do this I followed the excellent tutorial below:
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August 8, 2010
by Mark Wilkinson in Tutorials Tags: CSS, HTML, Images
When using the CSS hover selector and using background images, these however background images do not load when the page loads, only when they are called on hover and as a result give a delay before the image is displayed. In this post I will explain how I get around this problem using some simple ideas with HTML and CSS.
Hover selectors are always a good idea to use as they give the user an indication of which link they are currently over and about to click. In some more complex designs, perhaps where there are images of buttons in the navigation rather than just text, you will need to assign these as background images. It is often the case that the background image needs to change when the user hover over the button and therefore you assign a different image to the :hover part of your CSS.
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