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WordPress as a CMS

When most people think about WordPress, they think about blogs. If you look at the front page of WordPress.org, they talk a lot about blogging as well. What they don’t tell you is that WordPress can also double as a very powerful CMS; you just have to set it up properly. It can be a bit tricky to get setup and working the way that you want; but this is where I come in. Continue reading

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The Ultimate Guide for Learning Mootools

Getting started with any type of framework can be an intimidating experience. I had worked with scriptaculous and prototype to begin with, but decided to move over to Mootools because it’s a more light weight framework.

After the initial move to Mootools I was frustrated with the lack of community support and ended up moving back to prototype immediately. After I was more comfortable with working with frameworks I moved back to Mootools and haven’t looked back.

With this tutorial, I’m going to try to make sure that you have a great beginning to the Mootools framework. I’m going to walk you through getting everything downloaded and setup as well as some of the basic elements of mootools. After that I’m going to spend some time walking you through how to use the Mootools Docs, which is a site that you’ll be visiting very often during the use of Mootools.

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How to Code a Signup Form with Email Confirmation

No one likes spam and what’s worse is fake users falsifying your stats.

In this tutorial we are going to use PHP and MySQL as well as the Swift Mailer class to deal with user signups and email confirmation.

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Checking Username Availability with Mootools and Request.JSON

Your site is getting 1000 new signups a day. Congrats!

Let’s spice up your signup form with real-time username checking with Mootools and Request.JSON

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