Essential Wordpress Plugins to Backing Up your Database

10+ Essential WordPress Plugins to Backing Up your Database

Just imagine, then, the all-consuming sorrow of losing weeks, months or even years of blog posts or other site content. Your hosting company may provide a responsible backup service (or you may have a well-considered system in place if your site is self-hosted) but some extra insurance can be crucial if the unexpected happens (as it did for one of our client sites today).
Keeping an up-to-date blog backup copy, is one of those things that every one would like to do but are either too lazy to actually do it or have no clear idea of how it can be done. Backup is vital but it needs to be painless otherwise people just do it less often (which defeats the purpose, your backup should not really be older than a couple of days ago).

Essential WordPress Plugins to Backing Up your Database
Essential WordPress Plugins to Backing Up your Database

The ways which I’ve ever tried, an ideal backup procedure should be simple, heavily automated and give quick recovery option for almost any problem. Your backup must be up-to-date and it’s can store on your computer, another hosting server, another online storage service ….
Choosing a WordPress backup plugin that is right for you which has listed below

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Tutorial9 Sprites

CSS Sprites – Techniques, Tutorials And Tools | The Good and The Bad

Sprites were originally invented as a method of quickly compositing several images together in two-dimensional video games using special hardware. As computer performance improved, this optimization became unnecessary and the term evolved to refer specifically to the two-dimensional images themselves that were integrated into a scene.

Fire Emblem Sprites
Fire Emblem Sprites

Sprites were displayed over a static or dynamic background image, and the positioning of the sprite was controlled simply by the hardware controllers.
Apply Video games images render techniques above to Web development then we have CSS Sprites. In fact, CSS Sprites are not new, in some situation they can bring significant advantages and improvements – particularly if you want to reduce your server load.

CSS sprites is the technique of combing images to lessen the number of calls that need to be made to the server. Then you just shift the position of the background image to view the correct part of the image. May sound complicated, but it just takes a little math.

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MobileMe Login Form

Making Awesome Form’s Inline Labels with jQuery

Have you ever visit Apple’s MobileMe website? The login screen has form labels that are written within the value of their associated input field.

MobileMe Login Form
MobileMe Login Form

Inline labels are nothing new – in fact the easiest way to label a field is to simply set the field value up front and blow it away when the field gains focus. This is handy way for designers to save space and make their designs cleaner all-around. Unfortunately for us developers, simply setting the input value isn’t very semantic or usable then you can’t do it simple. I’ve just use a little jQuery to make it all happen.

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