Ever wanted to get your storefront’s sideboxes under control? You can easily move ‘em to the left or right sides of the layout, or even remove them completely by disabling their visibility. It’s all straightforward in Zen Cart’s Layout Boxes Controller screen. Let’s see how! (more…)

Did you know you can use WordPress shortcode outside of the loop? You can actually add shortcode directly to your theme’s templates. It’s easy to pull off, but you just need to know what to do. Let’s have a look! (more…)

The latest title from Ten Ton Books, Ten Ton Dreamweaver CS5 New Features, is now available…for free! In the next few days, it’ll be added to Ten Ton’s Online Library, freely available for all to view, but in the meantime you can check it out over on Ten Ton’s YouTube channel. In fact, a playlist (more…)

There’s an awesome write-up over on Lifehacker that gets into the nitty gritty as to why Chrome is overtaking Firefox, particularly among power users. Says Lifehacker, “Firefox has long been the go-to web browser (more…)

Ready to dig deep — I mean really deep — into CSS? Fresh off the Ten Ton presses, Ten Ton CSS Fundamentals is loaded with over 5 hours of killer content! (more…)

Check out this super-sweet sneak peek from Ten Ton CSS Fundamentals, due for release this week! In the full version of this lesson, you’ll learn how to create what’s called a sticky footer — that is, a footer that spans across the entire bottom of the browser window, outside of the main page container. There’s a few (more…)

Brand new and hot off the presses, it’s Ten Ton CSS Floating Layouts! Ever struggled trying to figure out how to build a floating layout using only elements and CSS? Ten Ton CSS Floating Layouts takes the mystery and headache away, and shows you how to build amazing CSS-based floating layouts from the ground up. With Geoff Blake’s trademark non-jargonny approach, you’ll have fun and learn a heap as you discover the world of floating layouts. You’ll learn about floats and clears, then delve into creating three different types of layouts: flexible layouts, fixed layouts, and combination flexible/fixed layouts…all from scratch, all with floats, all by hand!

Ten Ton CSS Floating Layouts is available on Ten Ton Online today, and will be available to order on DVD soon!

Ten Ton Books is happy to announce the release of our latest DVD, Ten Ton XHTML Fundamentals! Here’s a short excerpt from the product description: “Join award-winning software trainer, artist, and designer Geoff Blake on a journey into XHTML and web design in this information-packed DVD. Spanning nearly 6 hours, you’ll gain skills and have lots of fun across more than 70 casual, easy to follow lessons, hands-on tasks and techniques!” Find out more about Ten Ton XHTML Fundamentals here!

And, the third sample from Ten Ton XHTML Fundamentals DVD:Setting Iframe Attributes! Let’s do this! (more…)

Here’s the second sample from Ten Ton XHTML Fundamentals DVD: Creating A Nested List! Have fun! (more…)

Check out the first sample from Ten Ton XHTML Fundamentals DVD: Setting Up Basic Page Structure! In this clip, learn how how to set up the very basic, skeletal structure of an HTML page. Enjoy! (more…)

Ready for some Dreamweaver CS5? In Ten Ton TV Episode #5, I dig into one of the awesome new features; the ability to work with Content Management Systems like WordPress, Drupal, and others. See how Dreamweaver handles not only (more…)

Check it out, the first sample from Ten Ton WordPress Essentials DVD: Creating Posts With Dreamweaver! Throughout the DVD, there’s quite a bit about using other software apps along with WordPress, and this clip’s all about creating posts in Dreamweaver. Let’s get started! (more…)

Here it is, the second sample from Ten Ton WordPress Essentials DVD: Inserting Images from the Media Library! Find out how to drop images into your posts that have been added into WordPress’s Media Library! It’s super-sweet! (more…)