Put Drupal Sites in Maintenance Mode Manually
Drupal allows to set a website offline with a few clicks via the admin interfacte. However, we’ve seen situations where the admin interface becomes unavailable,…
Author: Valentin Garcia
Valentin discovered Joomla in 2010, and since then he has considered it as the best CMS. Valentin has been coding extensions and templates for Joomla for many years and truly enjoys helping people build their own websites with Open Source tools.
He lives in San Julián, Jalisco, México.
How to Exclude your Own Visits from Google Analytics
One of our users asked for a way to exclude the visits that his employees make to his website from Google Analytics. In this tutorial,…
Create a Magnifying Glass Effect with OKZoom jQuery Plugin
Would you like to allow your users to use a “magnifying glass” to zoom in and see your site’s images in detail? A magniying glass…
How to Embed Tweets in WordPress
WordPress makes super easy to embed a tweet in your website thanks to the oEmbed protocol. In this post, we’ll show you how to embed…
How to Create Fixed Elements with CSS
The CSS position property defines the type of positioning for an HTML element on a website. If you want to position an HTML element so…
Easily Access Google Analytics in Your Chrome Browser
Google Analytics is an essential for most website owners. By using a nice extension in Chrome, it can quick and easy to access your Google Analytics…
Make Your WordPress Site Look Like Our Breeze Demo
The OSTraining Breeze theme for WordPress is our training theme. We use it for many of our sample classes. We also wrote on the GoDaddy…
Shake Images with the jQuery Shakker Plugin
Adding a shaking effect to your images is an “interesting” way to get attention. I’m going to show you how to create a simple shaking…
How to Upload a Favicon into Drupal Adaptive Theme
Adaptive Theme is a popular free Drupal 7 theme. It comes with nice features to customize the layout and some design elements, including the option…
How to Create Circled Images with CSS
One of our members wanted to display circled images in his website. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to use CSS to…
Create WordPress Columns using Bootstrap in the Breeze Theme
One of our users needed to display content in two columns in a page while using our Breeze WordPress theme. Since the theme is based…
How to Add Microdata to Posts in WordPress
Microdata makes it possible for search engines to understand important details about your site’s content. Microdata provides Google and Bing with extra information about your…
How to Create Redirections with .htaccess
.htaccess provides an easy way to replace old or broken links with a new url. In this tutorial we will show you how this process…
Create a Hover Effect with CSS3 Transition and Transform Properties
One of our members wanted to reproduce the hover effect from the team’s pictures in our About Us page. In this tutorial, I’m going to…
Create Custom Maps with Clickable Areas
One of our members asked how to create a map with custom points to highlight specific areas. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to…
How to Fix Design Issues in Internet Explorer 10 and 11
One of our members needed to fix an issue for a site in Internet Explorer 11. At the same time, he wanted to avoid changes…
How to Add Custom Fonts to WordPress
An OSTraining member asked us how to add two extra fonts to their WordPress site: A custom font A safe font, such as Times New…
Debug Your Mobile Site in Android with Chrome Canary
Google’s Chrome browser includes DevTools, a built-in feature similar to Firebug. DevTools is really helpful for debugging CSS problems … on a desktop computer. However, DevTools…
How to Use the Events Calendar Plugin for WordPress
The Events Calendar Plugin for WordPress is simple to use. The free version comes with the basic features to manage events in WordPress, including a…
Customize the Read More Links in WordPress
WordPress makes posssible to override many things, but it’s not always easy to override language strings. Sometimes language strings are in the WordPress core and…