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Are you looking to setup an online store? You can setup your store and you can start selling in a week. There are many platforms available to use but Shopify is easiest, reliable and SEO friendly.   Not familiar with Shopify ? It is a great way to sell tour products, without worrying about managing a server, payment gateways, etc. as for a small monthly fee everything is included.  Click here to create a free trial store and start exploring. 

E commerce is great way to reach more customers and significantly increase profits. Global eCommerce sales have increase to a $1.25 trillion in 2013. So how can you get your share out of this market? Building a ecommerce website requires skilled software engineers to manage orders, payments and reports. Good designers are required to make site more appealing and easy to use. But good news is you do not need to hire these professional to start selling online.  There are many pre-built platforms that let you create online shop in hours or even minutes. These plateforms allow you to - List products with categories, images, descriptions and customization. Almost everything that you can thing of. - manage order and payment process and notify you whenever new order arrives - manage inventory and shipping costs - Have support for Search Engine Optimization(SEO) and  Social sharing and marketing. There are tens of such platforms but most popular ones are Woocommerce ...

Favicon is the small icon that appears on left of the title bar  when your website is opened in browser. Figure below show favicons of gmail and blogger. This is a very good way to brand your site. To add a favicon to your wordpress follow these steps. Create favicon favicon is a 16 x 16 pixel image so you have to either shrink your logo to this size or create a new image for your favicon. You can save image in either gif, png, jpg or ico.  Adding favicon Once you have the image ready install " All in One favicon ".  Then in your website admin dashboard goto            Plugins-> All installed Plugins and under All in one favicon select settings. This will open this interface Now you can select a favicon in whatever format you have(only one) and save.  Reload your site and favicon should be there.  In case you have any problems leave a comment here.

Java has a large set of APIs to parse HTML. To extract data from HTML  and perform any manipulation we should be able to parse it. jsoup provides a very easy to use , powerful and compact API to pare HTML and extract data. It supports DOM, CSS and jquery like selectors. It is designed for all types of HTML and will even parse HTML which is not perfectly valid. Example In this example we fetch BBC Sport , parse it to DOM and then select headlines using css-selector. Document doc = soup.connect(" http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/ ").get();  Elements newsHeadlines = doc.select("#more-news-headlines li"); We can also provide HTML directly in a string.  A detailed documentation is available at jsoup website. You may start from official cook book available here . 

Captcha or ReCaptcha is already installed with Joomla 2.5 and 3.0. But before you can use it , you will have to enable it by providing some keys. Here I will give you step by step guide on how enable captcha using Joomla 3. Login to your site Admin at yourdomain.com/administrator From top menu select Extension Manager -> Plug In Manager From list of plug-ins find Captcha - ReCaptcha(Enable it if it is not already) Go to basic options tab , it will require a Public and Private key go to  ReCaptcha  website to get the key, provide your domain and it will give you the keys paste Keys in Jooma 3.0 and you are done. The following video explains all the steps.