text: This is a question we are asked by people on a regular basis: “Why is my website slow?” The answer provided here, since 2012, is generally speaking in a WordPress context – because we are WP specialists – but a lot of the rules will apply to really any website, particularly one which runs on …
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  Add a Padlock (or other) Icon into Checkout Button in WooCommerce
  We recently had a request to add a padlock directly into the checkout button in a WooCommerce checkout, so I’m posting a snippet, below, which will allow you to do just that. Please note that several plugins add their own “checkout now” text, which is not the subject of today’s lesson, so you may want …
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  How to Bold Text in Skype
  This tutorial describes how to make text written into Skype display in bold font. This opening paragraph is bold (it is also in italics). Formatting text in Skype can be somewhat counter-intuitive. Luckily here at Silicon Dales we’ve gone through all the pain on your behalf. How to format bold text in skype Here’s how …
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  How to Scrub HTML from OpenOffice.org Calc
  If you’re importing and exporting content from websites via CSV it can be useful to scrub the HTML or formatting from descriptions and product details. On OpenOffice.org Calc you can do this by going to Edit > Find & Replace Search for <.*> Replace with: nothing Your content will be scrubbed of HTML formatting – at …
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  CSS Tutorial: Justifying Text
  Sometimes, for the purposes of style, we want to justify text in web pages. Justification, in a typographical sense, means that text stretches to line up precisely on the right and left margins, and appears straight down the edges (unlike this page, which is aligned left, and therefore is straight down the left edge, but …
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