Monday, April 30, 2012

Make an Advanced Desktop Application with No Coding at all for free

This will make an application like Fireburst Webmasters App, except that has tabs and sub tabs galore, and has all sorts of custom colors, forms and icons. there will be tabs, but not sub-tabs. We will make one to create custom logos with several different sites, you can change it if you like.
What you will need

  • Microsoft Visual C++ Express 2010(free)
  • If you want to do your own theme, you can change the websites in the instructions to websites of your own choice. 
Instructions

example: tabs

  1. Open Microsoft Visual C++ Express and start a new project
  2. Drag the sides of the application to make it larger, make it a convenient size to hold a website with a little added room at the top. 
  3. Go to the toolbox and drag "Tab Control" into your form. Expand it to fill the form(application) up. 
  4. Right click it and select "properties". You should see something like the image on the right. 
  5. Hover over the TabPages (Collection) part and you should see a little button appear. Click on it and select "tabpageone". The example:tabs image is from Fireburst Webmasters App. 
  6. In the text section, change the text from tab page 1 to "CoolText", then go to tabpagetwo and change it to "Flaming Text". If you like you can ad a tab and change the text to "Logo Maker."
  7. Select OK
  8. Go to tabpageone: the tab that says CoolText. Pull up the toolbax and drag 'web browser control" into the form, below the tabs. the tab "CoolText should be white. Right click and select "properties." Where it says "URL," enter "http://www.cooltext.com." If you want no error message, change from "False" to "True" the only on that is false from the start. It is "script errors suppressed." If you want errors to  still be shown, keep it true. 
  9. Do the same thing for the other two tabs, using the following URLs: for "Flaming text" its "http://www.flamingtext.com" and for "Logo Maker" its  " http://www.logomaker.com/."
  10. Go to the top and click "debug." When it asks you if you want to build the solution, select "Yes." After it debugs and builds give it some runs. 
  11. To offer it for download on a website or blog, create a .zip file and put your application in it. Upload the .zip file to your website or use Google Sites. Right click on the link to your file and select "copy Link" or your browser's version of that. On your site's editor, create a link, and in the text put Download" or some variation of that. In the URL box paste the link you copied. 
You are done!

How to make a basic Firefox Ad On with no coding knowledge

What you will need

  • A  Mozilla Developer's Account
  • Internet Access
  • Know how to copy and paste
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Any website for the ad on to go to
This will ad an icon to the Firefox ad-ons bar. Clicking the icon will open the website in a new tab. You can make a cooltext ad on, a leadsleap ad on, or any website you want. 
Instructions

  1. Log in to addons.mozilla.org
  2. go to tools, then click on developerhub
  3. go to start making ad ons andSelect the ad on builder
  4. Log in with Browser ID
  5.  below this line: "// This is an active module of the Adonname (1) Add-on" paste the folowing code, making changes where highlighted in red
exports.main = function() {};const widgets = require("widget");
const tabs = require("tabs");

var widget = widgets.Widget({
  id: "Ad On Name",
  label: "Hover Text",
  contentURL: "Ad On Icon URL: it does not have to be a .ico file. To find the icon of most(not all) sites, ad favicon.ico to the end of the homepage URL: example: mail.com/favicon.ico or fireburst.webs.com/favicon.ico",
  onClick: function() {
    tabs.open("Webpage URL");
  }
});

   save it. You can click test or download the ad on. After you download the ad on, move it the the top left hand corner of Firefox. That will install it. You may then upload it to addons.mozilla.org