Archive for the ‘How To’ Category

How to Create a Simple Javascript popup window

Posted by Brian Mecham May 12th, 2010

Sometimes on your website you may want to open some content in a popup window rather than a new page, which allows the visitor to remain on the current page and view the new content.
Click to see an example of how this works.
Here’s how you do this…
Add the following javascript code to the header of [...]

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Install Windows XP from USB Flash Drive

Posted by Brian Mecham May 4th, 2010

I decided to opt for installing Windows XP via a USB Flash drive. I didn’t have an external DVD drive available. After following various complicated tutorials (which never did fully work for me) I found a very simple way to take the resulting Windows install files created by nLite (or copied from your Windows install disc) and create a bootable USB Flash drive

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How to Find the Absolute Path on Your Web Server

Posted by Brian Mecham July 17th, 2009

From time to time, especially when moving a website from one server to another, I have to find out what the “absolute path” of my website is. Absolute path pertains to the directory on the server that the website is installed on…

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How to remove blank lines in dreamweaver

Posted by Brian Mecham July 15th, 2009

As I am creating websites I sometimes come across situations that require a more than basic knowledge and a bit of research to figure out.
Here’s a helpful hint regarding removing blank lines from an html file using dreamweaver, should you ever want to do that without having to manually delete the lines…
Click CTRL + F
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I Finally Figured Out How to Accomplish More in a Day!

Posted by Brian Mecham May 21st, 2009

The key to doing more during a 24-hour day is DOING LESS! Here are some tips that have been working for me in my quest to have a more productive day…

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