While Facebook and Google wage holy war for the soul of the internet, the front line of the battle it seems is the login credential area. Facebook with it’s 100’s of millions of users are really making headway in this category. The premise is simple, for new and existing website designers, you can have your users log in with their Facebook credentials rather than your own unique...
Yesterday I took out another domain at Dreamhost.com, it’s another hosting service that got rave reviews from lifehacker. The costing is quite pricey, but I managed to get a promo code online for a $50 dollar discount. Mind you it’s still on the high side for me, it works out to about $65.00/year, but that includes both unlimited storage and bandwidth , one domain AND a who-is protect...
Facebook has a 5000 Friend limit, meaning you can’t have more than 5000 facebook friends, and once you hit this limit Facebook won’t let you have any more friends. Being an excel guru, I knew that older versions of excel had a 65,536 row limit per worksheet. That meant you couldn’t store more than 65,536 rows in excel, the geeks among us would recognize 65,536 as a 2 raised to...
Jalopnik a website closely related to Lifehacker has been having a series of ridiculously cool wallpapers featuring ridiculously cool cars. If you’re into having cool cars grace your laptop screen so others can view something a lot more beautiful than the windows cloud head on over to Jalopnik and download you ridiculously cool wallpapers there. Warning , these wallpapers are so cool...
Wonderfully Unique and fun Facebook icons. For a long time people have been bugging Facebook to give us some more flexibility is the quick comment sections rather than just ‘like’, but these beautiful icons from Leonard Savage really take the cake. [via Designer Daily]
Ever wondered if the Ikea designed the manuals for constructing the Delorean from Back to the Future or a Lightsabre. Wonder no more thanks to the folks from College Humor [Via Gizmodo]
Subdomains are a tricky thing. In laymans terms all it means is to have something else in place of the ‘www’ in your web address. So for example: <- This is my domain <- this is my sub-domain, more specifically the resume sub-domain. Creating a subdomain allows you to section out your website, while allowing your urls to look cleaner. Personally I’m a bit...
Adding facebook like buttons are tricky things. It used to be I’d need to install a new plugin to have these facebook like buttons. For instance I use to use DiggDigg, which is a pretty good plugin for wordpress. However, for the initiated a code version that I could stick anywhere in my post seemed a lot more flexible to me.
So how does it work. Simple.
Joomla is a content management system that is customized for building actual sites. WordPress is similar to Joomla with the exception that it’s VERY VERY tailored to blogs. Of course I’m still new to most of this, but you can read up more by searching online:
So how do you install Joomla on nearlyfreespeech, surprisingly it’s VERY easy. Follow these steps.