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Create Colour Gradients Easily
Seems like colour gradients are everywhere nowadays since the more widespread acceptance of them in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, etc.
Gone are the days of firing up your favourite image tool, creating a gradient slice and uploading the result to your site in order to get that great background gradient effect.
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Setting Domain Keys and SPF with cPanel
In attempting to reduce email spam, the web hosting industry introduced SPF (Sender Policy Framework) and later DomainKeys DNS records. These are simply DNS entries in your zone that help to verify which server/s are allowed to send email for your domain.
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Introduction to the Yii PHP5 Framework
Yii is an excellent, open source, user friendly PHP application framework with a rich set of features built-in from the start, making website application development a breeze. If you're doing web application development and aren't yet using a framework, I'd highly recommend Yii.
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Increase Joomla 1.5 Performance With In-built Caching
Joomla is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) on the web at the moment. However, it is surprising how often Joomla websites are not optimised for performance and just left in there default installation state.
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Give Your Drupal Website A Boost!
We cannot recommend this Drupal module highly enough. It is an excellent addition to any Drupal website, whether you are suffering from poor performance or not. Boost can speed up anonymous browsing of your Drupal site by inordinate proportions.
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Getting Started With cPanel - Tutorial
cPanel is probably the world's most popular web hosting control panel. For people that are familiar with it, cPanel makes administrating websites a doddle. However, for those who haven't seen it before, the learning curve can be quite steep. In this tutorial we'll explain the basics you need to know in order to administrate your web hosting account via cPanel on a shared web hosting package.
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5 Great Drupal Themes - for FREE!
Drupal is an excellent all round content management system (CMS) that can adapt to just about anything you want it to do.
We've been using Drupal for some time here at Farbyte and thought we would share our top 5 Drupal themes, in no particular order, for you to take a look at.
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3 Free Joomla Media Players
Adding rich media to your website or blog is becoming the norm nowadays. Videos are becoming especially popular as a means of engaging your audience and as such, the big search engines are ranking fresh video content high in the rankings.
There are dozens of media players available for Joomla, so here is a list of our top 3.
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Drupal 6.22 Upgrade
It's that time again... Drupal.org have released their latest version of the Drupal 6 CMS system.
Although there doesnt appear to be any security related fixes from 6.21 to 6.22, we still advise everyone using our UK web hosting to update their Drupal 6 installations as a matter of course. Any users running installations below 6.21 should upgrade as a matter of urgency, as some cross site scripting security issues were fixed in that version.
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Farbyte Highly Redundant Hosting
Farbyte is delighted to announce that we have recently completed our infrastructure upgrades implementing geographically dispersed redundancy for all of our UK hosting clients. Farbyte hosting services are now deployed across three (3) separate data centres. Two data centres perform live / failover facilities for hosting accounts, with the third providing a secure, offsite location for backup data.
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