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Understanding Blogger Page Types

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Understanding the various Blogger page types is important if you plan to edit your own Blogger template. When you know this, then you can display certain HTML elements on specific pages by checking the page type. In my tutorials I, at times, mention creating conditional statements that check the type of page that is displayed. [...]

Finding and Fixing 404 Errors on Your WordPress Blog

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It is important to find and fix 404 errors that can occur in your WordPress blog. This allows you to take corrective measures to ensure visitors to your blog are presented with your content and not an error page. Earlier this year I wrote a post that explained how you can remove broken links in [...]

Windows Installer Error: System Cannot Open the Device of File Specified

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I had been having a problem when installing software that consisted of a single MSI file. Whenever I ran a MSI file I continuously received an error on the screen that prevented the application from being installed. I tried it on several installs, and they all produced the same error. Realizing it wasn’t the actual [...]

Finding Your D-Link DI-524 Revision

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I recently had an issue with one of my tutorial posts that outlines how to secure a D-Link DI-524 wireless G router. The issue was that the steps I provided didn’t exactly match the options that were available on some DI-524 routers. After a few readers reported this issue, I decided I should look into [...]

Why are Some Files Coloured in Windows Explorer?

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Someone recently as me a question as to why some files appear in either a blue or green colour when they viewed their files in Window Explorer. They were wondering if there was a problem with those files and what should they do about it. I assured them that there was no problem with their [...]

How to Reset the Linksys WRT160N Wireless-N Router

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Learning to reset the Linksys WRT160N wireless-N router is important if you currently change the settings within the administrative pages. The reason it is important is because one wrong setting change could make it difficult to access the Internet or the administrative pages of of the router. If you need to start over with your [...]

Display a Blog List as a Static Page in Blogger

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Blogger was created to provide an easy way for anyone to create a blog within a matter of minutes. You don’t need to know HTML or CSS to write and publish posts on a Blogger blog, since the user inteface, and templates, do it all for you. While you can edit the code, if you [...]

How to Display HTML Code in Blog Comments

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You can easily display HTML code in a blog comment you leave on a blog. Unfortunately, it does require some minor changes to the HTML before you write it to the comment as regular HTML tags won’t usually be displayed properly, mainly due to security concerns. When someone would like clarification about a particular piece [...]