When people are replying to a thread, going advanced editing would require an extra click as well as page loading time — very inconvenient. However, at gotalk.org, users would generally want to post a lot of code because it’s a programming language forum in nature. But vBulletin doesn’t come with a CODE button in the quick …
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The quick reply box of vBulletin is by default about 100px or less in height which is bit small for large chunks of text editing such as code. To change the default height of the quick reply box without having to click the enlarge button manually every time, you’ll have to edit the template: Changing …
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By default, only the forum name / title is displayed in the <title></title> tag of the homepage of your vBulletin forum, which is far from ideal in terms of SEO. One should give a much more descriptive title to the home page of the forum other than the mere name of it. To do this: …
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I’m not an expert but I’ve had my own errors and trials along the way so here I am. These are all the tips I believe you should use when you are optimizing for MySQL database performance. Some stuff may be very handy, but they may not be good for performance. Design Normalize first, and …
phpMyAdmin doesn’t show the exact size in MB when the size of your database exceeds 1GB. It just shows something like 4.2GB, truncating everything out in the 100MB precision. So is it possible to get the database size in MB in exact numbers using MySQL query? Yes, it is: SELECT CONCAT(sum(ROUND(((DATA_LENGTH + INDEX_LENGTH – DATA_FREE) …
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Though it does look great, I haven’t given it a try until the other day when I was developing smartbabynames.com. Notice the previous and next link immediately below the boy image at here: http://www.smartbabynames.com/meaning/boy/Langleigh/ They look and feel great. So here’s what I’ve done to achieve the rounded corner box in pure CSS — no …
ASCII is the most fundamental character set that has been around since the early days of command line interfaces. There are 128 (0 – 127) most basic ASCII characters such as a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and all the printable punctuations you can type out by a single strike of your keyboard. As all ASCII characters have …
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