You have a number of tools available to power your website creation and growth today.  And they are quickly getting more and more comprehensive and newbie-friendly year after year.

Having a wide array of options is always great, isn’t it? However, the more you have to choose from, the harder it is to make a choice.

In this post, I will compare the two most popular go-to places to jump-start a process of your website creation: TemplateMonster vs. Wix.

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Great software development can turn difficult problems into easy tasks. But sometimes, the opposite happens and apparently easy problems become difficult tasks.

Magento makes some tasks way harder than they should be.

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This week's new class is a guide to building WordPress sites in multiple languages.

"How to Build Multilingual WordPress Websites" will help you create a single site with content in more than one language.

Did you know that around half of WordPress sites are non-English? That number is only going to increase in the next few years? This class will help you get conformtable with the international side of WordPress.

Watch these videos and you'll learn to translate the WordPress core, plus themes and plugins. You'll also see how to use WPML, the most popular plugin for multilingual WordPress sites.

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Telegram is an easy to use free chat application that is rapidly winning fans all over the world. 

There is a Telegram plugin for WordPress but there is not yet a Telegram module for Drupal.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to integrate the Telegram app with your Drupal 8 site using JavaScript from Re:plain.

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Many WordPress contact forms allow you to embed the form into a post or a page.

The Gator Forms plugin is a little different. It provides you with a floating tab so that visitors can easily access the contact form no matter what page they're on.

Here's how to use Gator Forms to show your contact form inside a tab.

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In this exclusive tutorial, taken from WooCommerce Explained, we're going to show you some WooCommerce theming and styling basics. 

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Throughout that book, we mostly avoided using any code. We believe that anyone is able to build a great WooCommerce site.

But many of you are developers and are keen to dive into the WooCommerce code. In this exclusive tutorial, taken from WooCommerce Explaind, we're going to show you some WooCommerce programming basics. 

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Much of our time and effort at OSTraining goes towards covering the most high-profile platforms such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and Magento.

But there are 1,000's of videos in the OSTraining library and some of those cover other open source projects. I'm going to introduce you to 5 video classes you might not realize were in OSTraining's vaults. All of these software platforms are 100% free and open source. All of these software platforms give you useful tools for your daily work.

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Every year we go to DrupalCon (this time it was in Nashville).

Every year, it's an excellent event.

Every year, Dries Buytaert gives his keynote address, known as the "Driesnote".

However, something was different this year.

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If you spend any time in the WordPress world, you've probably come across Zac Gordon. Zac is an enthusiastic and charming teacher who focuses on Javascript in WordPress. He borrowed the phrase "Learn Javascript Deeply" from Matt Mullenweg and he made it into his personal slogan. For the last several years, Zac has produced video classes, online conferences, live talks, and podcasts that focus on teaching you how to use Javascript in WordPress.

I'm delighted to say we're working with Zac on a book, "React Explained".

In this episode of the OSTraining podcast, Zac gives you an introduction to React. Why is it the Javascript framework of choice for WordPress, Drupal, Magento and other big platforms?

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One of our members asked us how to update their phpMyAdmin version. They were running it under Windows/XAMPP.

You may not be aware that you are running an old version of phpMyAdmin.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to make sure your phpMyAdmin version is current, both for Windows and Linux.

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One of our club members asked us how to create a survey form in Drupal 7. They wanted to achieve this without a need for custom coding.

The Webform contrib module is the perfect tool for the job. In this tutoral, you will learn how to use this module to survey what peanut butter, jelly and bread your site visitors prefer.

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Rod Martin has just published a new video class on using Mautic, the open source platform for marketing automation.

In a world where marketing automation tools often cost over $1,000 per month even to get started, why not look at open source alternatives?

In this podcast, Rod introduces you to Mautic, and why you should consider adding it to your toolkit.

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Earlier on the OSTraining blog, Steve Burge gave an introduction to the new Layout Builder in Drupal 8.

Many users have been eagerly waiting for this module and it was released in version 8.5.

In this tutorial, you will take a further look at how to work with this module. You will see how to use the Layout Builder to configure content types and nodes.

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One of the most frequently asked questions among our Drupal students is "How do you control the look and feel of Drupal sites?"

If you really would like to be in control of layouts, you need to learn theming.

We've created a "Drupal 8 Theming and Layout" video class to help you. In this post, you will take a look at the class and what you can learn while watching the lessons.

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