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In this category we share knowledge of open source and other systems, in the form of tutorials and how-to guides. The list of subcategories below provides more specific areas of interest, or you can dive straight in to see the most recently updated items in the list below that.
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Our guides are one way we, at Silicon Dales, contribute to open source from our years of working in the wild on business applications for exactly this software.
Sharing information is how we learn and how we grow as developers and as human beings.
Because we post a lot of tutorials, about the subjects we are specialist in, we have the following subcategories, which may be more helpful for you to dive in to:
Below you can find tutorials we’ve posted, in date order, with the most recently added or updated items nearest to the top.
You can make your product listings stand out in Google’s organic search results by using Microformats top tell the search engine just what is in your page. AKA Rich Snippets Things like prices, in stock, ratings and reviews can all be highlighted in Google searches, and, in the case of images, ratings, and the words …
Ever wished you had a custom order status in your WooCommerce store? Did you want to add an “engraving” status, or an “out for delivery” status to your Woo store? Perhaps you wanted to message or email customers when you were doing some post-sale processing? Whatever you were looking to do, it you’ve made the …
If you’ve been doing search engine optimization for any length of time, you should have rolled with the punches and been privy to, or indeed part of a series of Google algorithm updates. Really, if you haven’t had a site “tank” in the SERPs, or been affected by an update, you haven’t been doing SEO …
It’s never too early to get ready for Cyber Monday when you’re in business. The annual technology sales event following the US Thanksgiving weekend has become an international phenomenon. Why bother? Cyber Monday is bigger than Black Friday, it’s also bigger than Boxing Day in the UK and outperforms the Click Frenzy sales event in …
If you like the Android App Skype – free IM & video calls and you’d love to download it to your PC, this is the tutorial for you! Installing Skype – free IM & video calls on Android If you just want to grab Skype – free IM & video calls for your Android smartphone, …
This android tutorial describes how to get your Gmail app to allow you to “send from” different email addresses – such as email aliases – from your smartphone or tablet Android device.
The mobile web is here, and it doesn’t look like it is going anywhere fast, now, does it?! So you probably want to make your company website look good on an Apple iPhone, iPad, or Google Android Handset? Well, the good news for people who use WordPress to manage their web content is that there …
If you, like me, want to use your SAMSUNG Galaxy s4 smartphone to access your emails via Gmail, then you’ll likely want to be able to turn on Sync on your S4 handset ASAP! This also works for other Samsung (and Android) smartphone devices. Syncing your phone is important, and sometimes, you might find it …
I recently recycled (read dug out of retirement for second phone use!) a Samsung Galaxy s4, and I wanted to remove a heap of old Google accounts, but, having updated Android, the option was nowhere to be seen. It took me a long time to figure out how to do this, so I’m posting here …
When I first started building websites and trying to improve rankings and generate traffic to them, I remember my mentor, and now business partner told me: “remember content and structure is always the most important part of any website” I’ve come a long way since first building a little site promoting sports videos. I was …
