Any WordPress powered website isn't complete without WordPress plugins. Thanks to the brilliant community that surrounds WordPress there are a variety of plugins written by users of WordPress as well as developers. There are so many plugins out there but theirs a handful of plugins that I can't live without, and that are installed on James' Blog. Really, plugins and how useful they are to you or me is down to personal preference, but here's a list of a handful of plugins that I can't live without!

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Every year in the UK were 'blessed' with channel 4 bringing us a reality show known as Big Brother, im sure even if your not in the UK you would of heard about it or god forbid have your own cheap and shitty rip off of it. But anyway it's that time of year again, Big Brother will be starting very soon, I just know it, im really guessing, but it usually starts just after I come back from Scotland (I go every year) and thats end of May early June plus there are those 7 DAYS screen randomly flash on Channel 4, and thats my queue to go "Fuck you" because if you hadn't guess from the sarcasm (Which I guess is hard in text) but I absolutely despise the reality show, and would you believe it's been running for 10 years? Which I guess is quite a achievement.

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A couple of days ago I posted about a bandwidth issues, that had recently been happening. If you didn't read the post click here Bandwidth amount is no longer a problem as I have just bumped my account to 80GB per month, and you'd think wow your not crazy, thats exactly what I think too, but im still using about 4 GB per day, well it's usually around 3.94 GB and does vary slightly, but the usage is very much high.

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Adding glow can make things look special or stand out and it can be applied to lots of different things. Glow can be used in website designs, to make something look just a little more special than the average look. In this case im going to use glow and apply it to a navigation bar to make look a little bit more 'Wow' than the average navigation bar, using nicely coloured gradients and bit of CSS magic, im going to show you how to achieve a real nice navigation effect, which looks smooth, sleak and with a few little extras to make it stand out.

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There are many different website layouts that are designed differently, many website layouts choose to have one or more sidebar, but a problem that you many encounter is how can you get the sidebar to be same length as your content? This is a good question, because if your sidebar ends before your content then your website layout will look strange. But there are methods of being able to achieve a sidebar that is the same height as your content. In this Quick CSS segment, im going to show you how you can achieve this effect, it's pretty simple and basic, but it's good to know!

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