How to create or save favicon or icons using Photoshop?

How to create or save favicon or icons using Photoshop? 

Favicon is a small image that is used on websites and are displayed in browser tabs. In this video, we discuss how to create Favicon or icon files using Photoshop. Icons by default have .ICO file extension. By default, Photoshop does not allow creation of icons. To create or save image as icon, we will be using a plug-in in Photoshop.

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How to reset Drupal admin user password easily from phpMyAdmin?

How to reset Drupal admin user password easily?
In this post, we shall see how to reset Drupal admin user password easily from phpMyAdmin. If it is on a production site, we can do "forgot password" to let Drupal send us a password reset link. But on local development server, we might not have a provision to do it. So we may need to do it some other ways. We can reset passwords for user from phpMyAdmin by running some scripts. But as you might already know that passwords in Drupal are hashed. So we need to know the hash code of a password before running such sql command. I have included a SQL code for password reset in Drupal 7 at the end of this post.

This example is on local Drupal 7 running on XAMPP (Windows). In this example, we generate a hash code of a password we desire and replace the existing hash code in PHPMYADMIN with the new one to change the password. Admin can then login in with the new password and may change the password as usually done in Drupal by editing the user.

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Email Settings On OSCLASS Website - OSCLASS Mail Server Setup and Configuration

Email services are required by almost every website that need to communicate with users over email even for basic things like emails to users after account creation for activation link, forgot password and contact forms etc. OSCLASS also need email for the above purposes. Configuring Osclass to use  mail server is quite easy as OSCLASS includes a pretty simple to understand form for configuring email. In this post, we shall see how to configure OSCLASS mail server for sending emails from the OSCLASS website.

Email Settings On OSCLASS Website - OSCLASS Mail Server Setup and Configuration

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OSCLASS Tips : How to move OSCLASS website from live server to localhost development server ?

This post is about how to move OSCLASS website from live server to local development server. The process in a nutshell is pretty forward that is, to download the website files and put them in the local website directory, export database from the live server to the local server and update configuration files on development server. But there are some minute updates or changes required to let OSCLASS work on localhost development server, which we will see in brief in this post.

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How to resolve Twitter is not displaying any images twitted from your blog or website? Check this.

Trying to share a link from your blog or website to Twitter but images are not showing up on Twitter? This post would probably help you to resolve the issue. Follow the steps in detail given below to show images on Twitter. Is it important to show images in tweets? Well, yes. People are generally more interested in checking out tweets if there are appropriate images along with the text. "Picture speaks a thousand words" still is common around here.

Usually, when we share links from our blogs or websites to Twitter, we don't want just a bunch of texts, hash tags and the URL but we expect some image to show up on our posts. But I found out the images does not show up on Twitter. Since, you are here, I am sure you have found out and looking for ways to let image appear on Twitter. So, let's get on with it.

Images on Twitter tweets are what Twitter calls "cards". There are four types of Twitter cards:

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Free Responsive Mobile Menu Plugin For WordPress

WordPress Plugin for responsive menu

With the increasing use of mobile phones, there is a lot of importance now on responsive web design. In the recent years, there is a lot of emphasis on responsive web design, so that the experience on mobile devices is smooth and user friendly. Keeping that in mind, it is better to have a responsive menu for mobile users instead of the default menu layout even for our WordPress sites. Luckily, there are responsive menu plugins out there for WordPress! There may be a lot out there, but in this post, we'll see one particular WordPress plugin that will enable responsive menu for mobile devices for a WordPress website.

While some WordPress themes takes care of responsive menu in their template design itself, most themes may not. For this example, I am using one of the default WordPress themes - Twenty Eleven. We will see how the WordPress menu looks like on mobile and how the menu is neatly displayed responsively after installing the plugin.

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How to make "You May Also Like" Related Posts or Link Within widget appear on mobile devices?

Showing "Related Posts" on blogs is a good way to keep viewers engaged with your blog. Once they are finished going through a particular blog post, your visitors may want to browse related posts on your blog. If you have a "related posts" or "you may also like" section, they can easily check out other articles on your blog. This is also good for reducing bounce rates. In my previous post, I discussed about how to add a "you may also like" or "related posts" section on Blogger blog using a free service from "LinkWithin". If you have not yet added a "related posts" or "you may also like" section on your blog, you can check out my previous blog post here -How to add "you may also like" or related posts widget for blogger? Though the article is about adding "You may also like" or "related posts" on Blogger blog, you can also use the "LinkWithin" service for other blogging platforms or websites as well.

"You May Also Like" Related Posts or Link Within widget not appearing on mobile devices?

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