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How to change sidebar header background colour by editing Blogger CSS using browser’s Inspect element?

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If you find the default Blogger template a bit boring and you would like to add your own customization, you can do so with a bit of CSS tweaks. In this short tutorial post, we’ll see how the browser’s Inspect Element web developer tool can be used to easily identify and tweak CSS. In this example, we will change the background colour of the sidebar widgets header. Read more »

How to create separate contact forms in Drupal website?

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How to create separate contact forms in Drupal website? Contact module is a part of Drupal 7 core, however, it is usually disabled by default.This post is on how to create different types of contact us forms in Drupal. Read more »

Blogger tips : How to add and remove blogs from Blogger’s reading list?

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How to add and remove blogs from Blogger’s reading list? Read more »

How to add Open Graph Protocol Tags to Blogger ?

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Facebook and other social media platforms uses the Open Graph Protocol. The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.In this post, we shall discuss How to add Open Graph Protocol Tags to Blogger ? Read more »

How to set or edit permalinks in Windows Live Writer?

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Windows Live Writer is a blogging tool from Microsoft. I have been using it for a long time and I find it to be a very useful tool for a blogger . The best part is that it can be setup for multiple blogging platforms such as WordPress, Blogger etc. so that you can blog to all your blogs from a single interface rather than logging on to each to blog a post. See my previous blog post to see how to set up windows Live Writer here . In this post we shall see how to deal with permalinks on Windows Live Writer. Read more »

How to solve WAMP SERVER 2.5 starting error: aestan tray menu error - the service has not been started

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How to solve WAMP SERVER 2.5 starting error: aestan tray menu error - the service has not been started? Read more »

How to resolve msvcr110.dll missing error when installing wamp server 2.5 on Windows?

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W ampServer is a Windows web development environment. It allows you to create web applications with Apache2, PHP and a MySQL database. It comes with phpmyadmin for managing databases as well. In this post, we shall discuss "How to resolve msvcr110.dll missing error when installing wamp server 2.5 on Windows?". Read more »

How to increase the size of database import file in phpmyadmin?

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Tried uploading a mysql database file in phpMyAdmin and failed to upload due to the error- " the file size exceeded the maximum size permitted by your PHP configuration"? In this post, we shall see "How to increase the size of database import file in phpmyadmin?". Read more »

How to make WAMPSERVER open localhost at another port number instead of default 80?

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How to make WAMPSERVER open localhost at another port number instead of default 80? (Eg: http://localhost:8080) Read more »

How to enable contact form in Drupal and add a menu link for contact form in Drupal?

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The Contact module allows visitors to contact site administrators and other users. Users specify a subject, write their message, and can have a copy of their message sent to their own e-mail address. For more information, see the online handbook entry for Contact module . This post describes how to enable the contact form and add a menu link to a Drupal website. Read more »

How to change Apache Server localhost port number from 80 to 8080?

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How to change Apache Server localhost port number from 80 to 8080? There are situations when you might need to change the default port number used by Apache (port number 80) to something else, say 8080 or 81. Such situations are like when you have Internet Information Services (IIS) running on the same machine etc. If IIS is required, keep it as it is and change the default port for Apache to listen to. Steps to change the Apache’s port number: Read more »

Unable to send SMS?

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When you try to send an SMS, if you are getting “SMS not sent” or similar messages even though there is balance, then the most common cause is that the Message Centre number is not set or set incorrectly. Without the Message Centre number, you will not be able to send SMS. Although the Message Centre should be set automatically when installing a SIM on its own, if your SMSs are not going out, then you may check as described below. Read more »

How to enable contact form and make contact form appear in main menu in Drupal 7?

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In this post, we shall discuss "How to make contact form appear in main menu in Drupal 7?" In Drupal 7, the contact module is included in the Drupal 7 core. We just have to enable it in the modules page as it is not enabled by default. Read more »

How to integrate and sync Google calendar with Microsoft Outlook?

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Microsoft Outlook is a good email client used by many professional organizations as the defacto email client. If it is your favorite, then you can also use it for personal purpose. Assuming you have integrated Gmail with Microsoft Outlook, you may also want to integrate Google Calendar with Microsoft Outlook and sync Google calendar with Outlook. In this post, we shall see how to integrate  and sync Google calendar with Microsoft Outlook? Read more »