Thursday May 21, 2009 Adham Dannaway

Back up your wordpress database using phpMyAdmin

Backing up your wordpress blog regularly is important to ensure that you don’t loose all your blog posts and other information in case something goes wrong with your wordpress blog. It is quite simple to back up your wordpress database using phpMyAdmin and I will go through the steps below. You can easily restore your wordpress database using a similar process.

An alternative to this method is to back up your wordpress database using the “WordPress Database Backup” plugin.

Monday May 18, 2009 Adham Dannaway

A simple free online screen recorder – Screen Toaster

Are you looking for a free way to record a movie of your onscreen movements? Screen Toaster is a great tool that allows you to capture videos of your onscreen actions online. You can record screen casts, tutorials, training lectures, demos and lectures and you don’t need to download any software or pay any money.The movie quality isn’t bad and you can specify how large you want your screen capture movie to be.

Screen Toaster is a totally free online tool which allows you to record your onscreen movements and save them as a movie file in a number of formats. You can even add audio and embed a webcam while you are recording. Just sign up to get your user name and password and you’re ready to go.

Monday May 18, 2009 Adham Dannaway

How to create a favicon for your website

Have you ever seen some websites display a small icon next to the website address (URL) in the browser window? This little icon is called a favicon and in a few simple steps I will show you how to quickly create a favicon on your own website.

Wednesday May 13, 2009 Adham Dannaway

Two great ways to embed a font in your website

Have you ever wanted to use a nice looking font in your website before? Ever wanted to spice up your headings on your website by using a different font? Simply defining your font in the CSS won’t do the trick as not everyone would have that font installed on their computer system. So how do you embed a font in your website? Well, I have seen it done in a number of ways, including manually creating image files for all the text headings in your website. I would not recommend this method simply because it takes too long and there are much easier and nicer ways of doing it dynamically.