Overwrite Inline Styles with your CSS

Usually we think of inline styles as a way to overwrite styles we set up in the CSS file. 99% of the time, this is the case, and it’s very handy. But there are some circumstances where you need to do it the other way around. As in SugarCRM, WordPress, Joomla, there are inline styles on some markup that you absolutely can’t remove, but you need to overwrite what those styles are. This could be markup that is being inserted onto the page from foreign…

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How to display Prev/Next buttons on a Nivo slider when MouseOver

Most of slider effects will display the Prev/Next buttons by default once you open the page that contain a slider effect. Whether you build a slider for a CMS or a shopping cart or a regular HTML page, you can be able to change the codes in CSS and slider block on your HTML page. Here’s how you do it. Open the CSS file that supports the slider, add a style for the Prev/Next layer. Hide the layer on display first. .parent .navigation-links { display:none;…

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How to stop a webpage from auto refreshing constantly

There’re a few questions related to this matter I received today from my clients. Some of them have tried “break;” and “window.stop();” and “pause();” and “window.location.reload(false);”, … you name it; however, non of them works. There’s a trick to reload a webpage once and stop the webpage from auto-refreshing itself. At the end of the URL, add the pound sign like this # in the Get or Post URL. Then when you retrieve the value by GET/POST variables, remember to remove the # sign by…

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Editor issue with fresh installation of WordPress 3.5.1

For those of you who install fresh WordPress 3.5.1, you may experience some buttons / links of the HTML editor didn’t work such as the toggle between View/Text button, the Add Media or Add Image button. If it behaves so, this is another option you can do to fix it. 1) Back up all your WP files and Database 2) Go to this website http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/ and download Version 3.4.2. 3) Install on your server. 4) Now log in as WP Admin and upgrade to 3.5.1.…

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Between WordPress and Joomla, what should I use?

Up until todate, we’ve received a few questions about what to choose between WordPress and Joomla from our new clients. So we do some research and this is the best comparisons of the two most popular CRMs right now. This document was created back in January 2013 by Redgiantdesign so it’s considered to be quite recent. Please click on this link to view the entire comparison in graphic.

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