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Atahualpa WordPress theme styling tutorials (in HD on Youtube)
Free Thesis theme clone
Choosing the best WordPress  theme for your business or corporate website
Paint.Net tutorial: Create a free banner for your website in 15 minutes
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How to create a website banner using free image editing software Paint.Net in 15 minutes

I love the free image editing software Paint.Net.  It’s a serious competitor for Photoshop CS4 ($799!) in the do-it-yourself market.  Another (reputedly) more powerful, but harder to use free software is Gimp.  But Paint.Net does the job for me.  Here is a typical application: making a banner for a website.  Below is a step-by-step guide.

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Installing and using the free screen capture utility “Cropper” on Windows

This is useful not just for capturing screen elements, but also for measuring the pixel-width of items on websites.

Note: you don’t need to use screen-capture to capture images on websites.  Just right-click > Copy. You can also get the image dimension through right-click > Properties.

How to install WordPress + PHP + mySQL to a local development server environment on Windows or Mac, in 3 minutes

This is so easy it will knock your socks off.  It took me 10 minutes, but that was because I wasn’t clear on mySQL security – it should take 3 minutes, so this article could save you 7 minutes.  I did it because I was doing a lot of development with short testing cycles and [...]

HTML tips: floating image and paragraph/text alignment: starting a new paragraph after a floating image

Image and text alignment are a very frequent source of frustration for website owners.  Unfortunately, mixing text and images in HTML isn’t quite so simple as in Microsoft Word.

A common problem is horizontal alignment of images and / or positioning new paragraphs after a left- or right-floating image.  See for example: