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  • Improve your Drupal theme markup with body classes

    Since Drupal 6, a lot of the detailed markup as found in the excellent Zen theme framework has made its way into the default Drupal markup. More details about this feature can be found here https://drupal.org/node/163723 To use this feature for your theme just insert the variable $body_classes into your tpl files body opening tag

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  • How to create and use a Drupal template (tpl) file

    Template files are used to overwrite the core Drupal output (or the output of a module that overwrites the core Drupal output). This can be for example useful if the layout of a particular content type, page, block or view can’t be easily fixed by a stylesheet. With a tpl file you can completely overwrite

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  • How to add a new widget area to your WordPress theme

    Most WordPress Themes come by default with some pre-defined areas where you can drop your widgets in. But often this is not enough and you need to add additional areas, for example for advertising space or other features. This is how to do it: First Step: Add widget Area to Theme In the index.php file

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  • W3C Validation

    kleinermann web design validates all it’s clients’ websites with the W3C Validator to make sure the websites run well on different browser types. Please check your website here: https://validator.w3.org/ Errors The most common error declared by the W3C Validator is know as a “Syntax Error”. HTML and XHTML are languages used within the coding of

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  • How to Write Good Copy For the Web

    Good web writing keeps users interested in what you have to offer, and is one of the determining factors in their decision to use your product. Most importantly, it will also determine whether they come back to your site. Therefore, it’s important to know how to write good copy for the web and what pitfalls

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  • Add a custom menu in Drupal 6

    Basic Menu There are three default menus available in a fresh Drupal installation. Primary links – Often used to present the main sections of the website, for example as tabs along the top Secondary links – Often used for pages like legal notices and contact details along the bottom Navigation – Often only visible for

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  • How To Put A Facebook Like Box On My Website

    What can i do with the Facebook Like Box? Given that you have previously set up a Facebook page to promote your business or project through Facebook, you can now show everybody how popular it is by connecting your website with your Facebook page. This is done by placing a box with people that like

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  • AA Bearings

    AA Bearings is an Australian-based bearings and oilseals business. Our client wanted a website that older users would find easy to navigate and that included images and brand names of their products. To this end, we built AA Bearings a simple, classic-look website that represented the business and spoke to its older clientele. Excellent and

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  • Adam Pavitt Album Launch

    Album Launch on the 10/07/2009 at 9:00 PM at the Edinburgh Castle, (681 Sydney rd Brunswick). I’ll get the chance to present the latest music video clip that i produced for and with Adam over the last few weeks on the big screen 🙂 No Arms from Mimo Films on Vimeo.

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