5 Easy Steps to Resizing an Image in GIMP 2.x
Sometimes a client complains that their photo-heavy site takes “forever” to load and that is a major issue for their users. The truth is that…
Is a WordPress Page Builder Right for You?
You need a web site. You’re not a coder. You’ve dabbled in WordPress enough to know that the blog you created years ago when it…
Designing Blind – 5 Steps Toward Fostering Designer Excitement
It’s the challenge of creating something that will “wow” and go beyond what a client could have ever imagined possible that is motivating and exciting…
Create Tables & Import CSV Data in Your Joomla Database Using Fabrik
Do you have data supplied to you from a client or outside application that you need to create a table to house and then display…
A Review of the Modern Events Calendar Plugin for WordPress
Finding the best WordPress event calendar for event management can be a challenging task. If you are a website owner and plan to create events…
A Review of the Bridge WordPress Theme from Qode Interactive
The Bridge theme is a highly customizable, creative multi-purpose theme for WordPress and as of November 2019, it includes Elementor and WPBakery, two of the…
What are View Modes in Drupal 8
Drupal is well known for its flexibility in managing and presenting content. Drupal View Modes allow you to render (display) a Drupal entity or entities…
How To Replace Media in Drupal 8
Now that the media module is in core (watch our class on the Media Module here), we’re starting to see some contributed modules come along…
3 Modules to Enhance Drupal 8 Layout Builder
When Layout Builder was introduced into Drupal 8 Core, it gave Site Builders a tremendous amount of flexibility previously reserved for Front End Developers (or…
How To Manage Image Styles for Media in Drupal 8
For years, Drupal site builders have endured a less than great experience with any media they wanted to use. It was difficult to manage and…
How to Add Push Notification to Your WordPress Website
Content creation is one thing, but content distribution is a completely different ball game. Most websites master the art of content creation and still wonder…
How to Use Tables in WordPress
Tables are very useful to present data, especially data related to numerical values. People find it easier to read and interpret the data (identify patterns…
How to use the Slick Module in Drupal 8
One of OSTraining’s members wants to have a carousel slider in her site. She wants the carousel to show 3 image slides and some text…
How to Implement a Simple Forum in Drupal 8
Forums or message boards are an implementation of an early way of communicating, generating content and interacting through the internet, by creating threaded discussion boards,…
Want to know more about Joomla 4?
Joomla 4 is definitely a much anticipated release, and there have been many people asking about what to expect in features and the upgrade path…
Visualizing Data Using Fabrik
Fabrik is a rapid application building extension for Joomla, and it’s super easy to show your data in lists or details views. But did you…
What are CSS Transitions and How to Use Them
In a previous article, you learned the basic concepts of CSS animations and how to use them. We could say that transitions are a simplified…
How to Use Relationships in Drupal 8
With the Views module, it is possible to fetch pieces of data from a Drupal entity and display them according to a specific format. The…
The OSTraining Podcast Season 2 Ep #2: Dan Maby of WPandUP and Blue 37
In this episode, we will be talking to Dan Maby, Director at Blue 37, a WordPress design firm, and CEO of WPandUp, a non-profit designed…
Public, Guest, and Registered Access Levels in Joomla!
Understanding how to use the Public, Guest, and Registered access levels in Joomla! 3 sites with a frontend user area gives you much more control…