How to embed YouTube videos in SMF forum

There is a mod for SMF that allows you to embed YouTube videos fairly easily, but I didn’t find it until after I worked out a way that I think works as well and doesn’t take a separate modification, plus it’s pretty mindless to add Google or Yahoo videos as well.
I had the Custom BBC [...]

How to create a favicon.ico file in Photoshop

There is a small graphic file that most people probably don’t know about, but your web browser does. It’s the favicon.ico file and it can help your site to stand out.

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fforumsblogswikis.com%2F2007%2F09%2F03%2Fhow-to-create-a-faviconico-file-in-photoshop%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘How+to+create+a+favicon.ico+file+in+Photoshop’;
addthis_pub = ‘RyanNutt’;

Using AJAX to get city and state from zip code

This is something that I wrote a few years ago when I first started using AJAX type calls in my programs. It will allow you to enter a zip code, either 5 or 9 digit, and will load the city into a text field and state into a dropdown. If the city field [...]

How to reset Webmin password

Forgot your webmin password? If you can login to the server via SSH you still may be in luck. Look for a file called changepass.pl in the webmin directory or as part of the webmin download. At the prompt type
PLAIN TEXT
CODE:

./changepass.pl /etc/webmin username newpassword

replacing /etc/webmin with the path to the webmin [...]

Bridging forums, blogs, and content areas

From an email
Thank you in advance for responding to this question.
I am getting involved in a project that has blogging and news component but also member ship area and forumz. I am not sure that wordpress is enough. For blogging it seems fine, for a social networking maybe not.
I am looking for the best starter [...]