If you want to remove the ‘Post to Google plus’ message, simply change

to

Simply download the installer and run it (make sure you run as an administrator on Vista & 7). Select your options and you’re done!

You’ll need to run Minecraft from the downloadable .exe file (available on the Minecraft website) rather than from your browser.

Don’t forget, this only works with 1.7.3!

There are plenty of high-end systems ideal for large-scale e-commerce, but if you’re just starting, your budget is often limited or sometimes non-existent.

ZenCart and it's somewhat clunky admin interface

Cheap or Open Source systems have a reputation (not always unfairly) for being a little hard to use. Anyone who’s used ZenCart will be familiar with the feature overload when navigating the back end. When you’re setting up for the first time, the last thing you really need is to spend months trying to convince a system to do what you want it to.

OpenCart is a neat, efficient system. Whilst not overflowing with features, it’s a breeze to navigate, and does contain all the core features you’d look for when setting up a shop:

• Unlimited Categories
• Unlimited Products
• Unlimited Manufacturers
• Multi Currency
• Multi Language
• Product Reviews
• Product Ratings
• Open Source
• Free Documentation
• Templatable
• Automatic Image Resize
• 20+ Payment Gateways
• 8+ Shipping Methods

If you have Installatron or a similar set up on your server, you can install OpenCart with a click of a button.  OpenCart itself has a beautifully clean interface, meaning that you can start using it immediately without having to customise it to look clean or modern.

The default OpenCart template

A custom OpenCart template

OpenCart plugs cleanly into PayPal and other commonly-used systems for instant payment setup.

You can have a play with OpenCart on the website’s demo area at: http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=demonstration/demonstration

OpenCart is open source and free and you should download it from http://www.opencart.com

A recent draft of the continued development of Firefox has shown plans (still in the planning stages) for Firefox to release another 3 versions in 2011, taking it to version 7 before the end of the year.

These developments follow criticism that Mozilla was too slow in releasing new features through 2010, with version 3 only upgrading to 3.5 despite a wealth of new features that many argued would easily constitute a big enough improvement to merit version 4 status.

Firefox beta 11 sports a new minimalist-inspired launch page

Each new browser release will contain major improvements, but focus on them in a more linear progression, so that one milestone can be achieved at a time, so that releases aren’t held back by trying to hit too many targets at once.

Google Chrome already follows a similar pattern, being on version 9 at time of writing, despite being younger than its Mozilla counterpart.

You can download the latest Firefox beta at: http://www.mozilla.com/en-GB/firefox/beta/

Having a tool like this is an essential must-have for any computer user, simply access their website and you gain access to your computer from anywhere in the world.

If you use Mozilla Firefox or Apple’s Safari Browser (read more about browsers) you can appreciate some of the benefits of CSS3, including rounded corners, drop shadows, gradients and clever transformations.  All features that have previously been accomplished with images and JavaScript – which significantly increased loading times.

CSS3 means you can offer far more attractive interfaces and designs with often no need for images.

.welcome-box {
-moz-border-radius:10px;
-webkit-border-radius:10px;
border-radius:10px;
}

Wuh? Why so repeat-y? Well, most browsers are still in the middle of implementing CSS3, and will be for some time.  This means that Mozilla broswers (think Firefox) and Webkit browsers (think Chrome and Safari) have their own prefixes.  We finish of the code with a standard declaration.  This is so that once the standard is completed the most recent, finished declaration will override the older browser-specific ones.  Nifty.

You can specify specific corners like so:

.welcome-box {
border-radius:10px 10px 5px 0;
}

The order is top-left, top-right, bottom-right, bottom-left. Don’t forget that you don’t need to specify a unit of measurement when using 0 as a measurement – zero is zero!

Unfortunately, the majority of the world aren’t quite as up to date.  Internet Explorer 9 (in early-ish beta at time of writing) will implement CSS3 rounded corners (using the border-radius declaration rather than another browser-specific one) but 6-8 are still in wide use.  I’ve found DD Roundies to be an ideal solution.  It’s a script you can include which lets you add a rounded class to your rounded corners so they work in IE. Awesome. http://www.dillerdesign.com/experiment/DD_roundies/

You can download from: http://www.mozilla.com/en-GB/firefox/beta/

You’ll find many of your favourite plugins are not compatible with Firefox 4, however the majority update quickly and many have betas of their own which are.

One warning though, if you wish to use the browser for secure uses, be aware that the bugs that still need ironing out include security bugs.

Check it out: jQuery TOOLS

If you’re not using Firefox for web design, you really – really – should be. Besides being standards-compliant and supporting thousands of useful plugins, it also supports Firebug. Firebug lets you dig into your coed in real time and try out edits and changes as well as giving you a whole range of debugging tools. What’s more, Firebug also supports Yslow a Firebug plugin from Yahoo! thyat’s pure gold. It gives you accurate readouts of your page download time and has built in tools for getting more code and minifying images by using All Smush It to reduce image size without degrading quality.

Filezilla

FileZilla is an open-source FTP client which supports sFTP. FileZilla is stable, easy to use and fast. Don’t pay for an FTP client when FileZilla is available.

Download FileZilla

Snippets

Every time you write a clever line of code, discover a unique new tool or find an elegant way to write something you should save it. In the future this will save you more and more time as you go on. You should try and keep your snippets up to date and replace them as you find better alternatives. At the very least, consult a site like CSS Tricks which has a massive, ever-growing collection of freely available web design snippets.

Frameworks

Consider looking at using a framework. In CSS BluePrint is a fairly well-known standard for preventing yourself from writing repetitive code. Perhaps you’d rather use something simper? There’s plenty out there. I use a modified version of WhiteBoard CSS for WordPress, a framework which I add to with snippets I collect.

What does the client need?

The most important thing in my experience is to balance a client’s needs with your desires and their intentions. What I mean by this is that if a client needs a website selling microwaves they need it to sell, you’ll naturally want it to look fantastic and so will they, but you will be doing a better job by making a website that works rather than one that lives up the imaginary ideals of what a ‘good website’ is in your head. A good-looking, well-coded website that sells nothing is a bad website.