Adobe Dreamweaver Tip – Adding File Editors

Hello Readers! In this post I’m going over a little tip I figured out in while using dreamweaver to program a clients website. I was working on vaultharlem.com (check for their new website in a few months, it’s looking great so far) and I kept having to edit images in a wordpress theme. I wanted to be able to double click on an image in the “files tab” and have it open in photoshop...

Filling a website with content, when you have no content. – WordPress

There are many occasions where a client needs a web presence, but doesn’t necessarily have much content for a full website. Too little content may discourage users from coming back, be less visible for search engines, or just plain look empty. On this post I will go over some methods I’ve used in the past to overcome this issue. 1. Social Network Embedding. One trick is to use social...

Alienware AlienFX Winamp Plugin Tutorial

Get Plugin: http://adf.ly/45WDl Plugin Author: copyright 2008 Benjamin Thaut (http://3d.benjamin-thaut.de) IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW: 1. It takes a lot of patience to get this to work, In some cases the light kit will turn off and stay off until you either do a soft reset or full reboot . *Advice from the Author of the plugin: You might want to include, that if the AlienFX device gets completely stuck,...

Fallout New Vegas Frame Rate Issue Fix | Alienware M11x

After digging through forums I found this fix. It took me a while to figure it all out, Heres a video guide on how to get the game running properly along with the instructions that I followed. Thanks to the users on forums.bethsoft.com for finding this fix, and a sarcastic thanks to the bethesda developers for releasing a broken game. Step 1: Download this .dll http://www.dlldump.com/zip/dllfiles/D/d3d9.zip Step...

Alienware M11x Driver Issue Rant mixed with “Just Cause 2″ fatal directx fix

Rant Video with Explanation: Here is the driver fix: Drivers From Nvidia’s website. NVIDIA DRIVERS 258.96 WHQL This is the modded INF file that will trick the drivers into working for our alienware. nvdm.zip 1. Download and save both the Nvidia drivers and the inf file I posted above to your desktop. 2. Download and install Guru3D – Driver Sweeper (Setup) download from Guru3D.com 3. Go...

Easy Truncable Text using Jquery

This code will allow users to hide / extent text inside of a paragraph tag. This can be easily used with PHP or MySQL. An Example of this in action can be found at ereads.com on any book with a sample chapter. ( Example Here ) First We have to create the JS file. Copy and save the following as “jquery.truncatable.js”: (function($){$.fn.truncatable=function(options){var defaults={limit:100,more:’…’,less:false,hideText:’[read...

Tutorial: How to Create a Zip File with PHP / MySQL

Recently I added a function to a CMS that I have been evolving to meet the needs of ereads.com. I needed to allow users to select items (in this case ebooks) from the system and then export files that are attached to the books. So lets get started! What is a Zip File? “Zip files (.zip or .zipx) are single files, sometimes called “archives”, that contain one or more compressed files....