There is one more reason to celebrate this NewYear .Google updated toolbar PageRanks Today and I am pretty happy with the updates . After 3 months , techknowl is PR3 now ,along with many of my other sites gaining good rankings .
Though many webmasters says that PR less important , I do believe that it has some importance for online business .High PR is always an authority for Bloggers and her/his blog entries will be ranked higher in search engines(Google ) .Other Advantage include profit from link ,content sales and link building . As far I have seen its very easy to reach PR3 or PR4. Anything more than PR4 is little difficult , you need high PR back links . I know that many SEO guys are paying for writing reviews and getting PR and higher ranks for keywords .This is very easy method as for any search engine its difficult to differentiate the payed links inside text . But I prefer link bait rather than paying for writing reviews .So what I plan is to write good articles and produce new Blogger templates / Wordpress themes in the coming year . .By this I expect to attract more visitors and a PR5 at the end of next year. So it was the last post in techknowl for the year 2008 . Hope you have enjoyed this Christmas and New Year ( May be enjoying ) .
Thank you very much for supporting me with comments and motivations .Wishing all the best for my feed readers and visitors . Colorite (31/12/2008)
I recently started trying with the creation Blogger templates using Wordpress themes . Actually the process is to extract Wordpress themes and separate the CSS file used to style the theme .By doing this for some time I got interested in Wordpress theming and started searching for tutorial resources . Finally my search ended up with tool used to create Wordpress themes online . Here You don’t need to learn to create Wordpress themes . What you need is little creative skill to organize the page colors and properties . The resulting Wordpress theme can be downloaded in Zip format and ready for immediate use .
Anyone familiar with Revolution Wordpress themes would know about the sliding featured content section in the home page . If not , have a look at the following screen shots .
Blog administrator can set random posts as featured content so that the user can access them easily. Apart from the user navigation , it makes the blog looking good with sliding graphics. This feature is still not available in many of the converted Revolution Blogger templates .
The sliding menu uses two JavaScripts which are available at jondesign.net . We have to incorporate these JavaScripts with necessary CSS codes to accomplish sliding featured content in Blogger .
1 .Copy the following JavaScript code just before </head> of your Blogger template . Gallery JavaScripts from jondesign.net were uploaded to my Google pages account and linked with the script .
2. Now we have to add a CSS code for formatting the Sliding Gallery with featured content .
Copy the following code and insert it before </style>(in Blogger ]]></b:skin>) tag of your template . Download the CSS code .
3 . Next we have to decide the number of posts to be appeared in the content Gallery , along with the design of sliding Gallery elements(photos) description and targeting links .
A maximum of 5 pics(450px *150px or reasonable) would be enough as otherwise leads to slower page loading .
After preparation , we have to build a similar Blogger widget as shown below . It depends on the number of sideshow elements , image URL, targeting URL , featured content header text etc . Here in this example , there’s only two featured gallery elements used .
<div id="myGallery"> <div class="imageElement"> <h3>Give your
featured
content header here</h3>
<p>Give your small
featured
content description</p> <a href="Targeting URL" class="open" title="Click here to read full story"></a> <img src="Sideshow picture element uploaded URL" class="full"/>
<img src="Sideshow picture element uploaded URL" class="thumbnail"/> </div> <div class="imageElement"> <h3>
Blogger Templates</h3> <p>Get
Blogger templates for free here!</p>
<a href="http://www.techknowl.com" class="open" title="Click here to read full story"></a> <imgsrc="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_pt7i0nbIOCY/SSoUU8cXExI/AAAAAAAAAcc/W37l9b00JNQ/blogger-templates_thumb%5B2%5D.png?imgmax=800"class="full"/>
<imgsrc="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_pt7i0nbIOCY/SSoUU8cXExI/AAAAAAAAAcc/W37l9b00JNQ/blogger-templates_thumb%5B2%5D.png?imgmax=800"class="thumbnail"/> </div> <script type="text/javascript">function startGallery() {var myGallery = new gallery($('myGallery'), {timed: true});}window.addEvent('domready', startGallery);</script> </div></div>
The portion starting with <div class=”imageElement”> and ending with </div> is a single slide element .You can extend the number sliding pictures by adding more <div class=”imageElement”>…. </div> elements . In the first case , I have given the positions where the images , links , descriptions etc. to be added . The second( <div class=”imageElement”> case gives an example . That is , Blogger templates stands and the header and get Blogger templates as description . You have upload your own images and replace the sideshow picture elements . At the end there is JavaScript for gallery call timing, which doesn’t need any change .You can download the above code here and make necessary changes adapting your template .
After successful creation of widget code, From the Layout >select add Gadget >Add HTML or JavaScript and paste the contents .Now drag the widget to the top of your blog post to make it visible over there .
A working example for a gallery with sliding featured content in Blogger is given here( Link removed :updated ) .
Any problem in Installation ?? Ask them in the comment section .
Revolution series of Wordpress themes were developed by Brian Gardner and the Revolution team . These themes went open source after Brian’s announcement on late October . Now they can be downloaded at Revolution theme’s website for free of charge .
Revolution magazine style themes crunch and lifestyle were converted into Blogger templates and here I am republishing those templates with few customizations . They are three column fixed width Blogger templates . Both Church and Lifestyle are professional looking Blogger templates with two CSS drop down menus . Unfortunately , these drop down menus doesn’t work with any versions of Internet explorer. Featured content option from the original Revolution Wordpress theme was removed for adapting with Blogger .
I think you have seen the mobile versions of popular web portals and blogs .Similarly you can also create create a mobile version of Blogger or Wordpress blog . There are different methods and each depend on the blog platform .
Mobile version of a Wordpress blog .
First of all you have to create a subdomain for your blog , say m.yourdomain.com. Your Wordpress blog should be re-directed to this sub domain when accessed on a mobile phone . For this , you have to identify mobile browser UA string snippets, which can be done using PHP scripts .. There are plugins in Wordpress for automatic re-direction to mobile versions .
These services Deviceatlas.com and WURFL can be used for mobile device detection .
Check out Andy mooresPHP script to detect mobile phones . Here you can generate custom PHP script to choose the mobile browsers and the domain to which it should be re-directed .Download the PHP the code and paste it at the very top of your header.php file ( This can be found in your theme directory ) . Apart from this , Andy Moore also has a Wordpress plugin for mobile versions of Wordpress blogs. DOWNLOAD (Ad supported).
The best service that can create a mobile version of Wordpress blog is Mofuse . Mofuse is completely free and they have an easy to use mobile site builder for custom design of your site . On default , you will get a .mofuse.mobi domain after successful registration . This can later re-directed to your custom domain using the Mofuse dashboard settings .
For eg: techknowl.mofuse.mobi can be re-directed to m.techknowl.com.
A CNAME record (m.techknowl.com) should be made on your DNS control panel and it should be pointed to techknowl.mofuse.mobi . So a visitor at m.techknowl.com(Desktop) will be redirected to techknowl.mofuse.mobi .
For mobile phone redirection , you can use MofuseWordpress plugin. Just enter your mofuse mobile site name and your sub domain will be redirected to it .
Another features :
Mobile site Analytics
Custom design/colors/logo
SMS and Comment widget
Earn Revenue from mobile site using Google adsense and Admob .
Mobile version of Blogger blog:
Though we can create a mobile version of the Blogger blog , re-direction to mobile site is not possible as the execution of server side scripts like PHP are not allowed . So here also we can make of Mofuse for the mobilization of Blogger .Blogger custom domain users can create a sub domain and change the CNAME record to point Mofuse. These sites should be promoted independently as they are not available on direct mobile access .
A German firm Balesio offers a software called PPTminimizer that can shrink PPT(Microsoft office Power Point ) and DOC ( Microsoft word 2003 ) documents to about 98% of their original size .There are about four modes of conversion and in each case the quality of the converted file is almost same as the original file .Webmasters and Bloggers can easily upload these files their servers as they consume only a very small bandwidth and web space. Unlike Winzip ,Winrar and other conventional tools , these files are not achieved or converted into another formats.So the converted PPT and DOC files can be directly opened in slide projectors and Office document readers . The reduced file size make it easy for you carry them files in USB drives and even on mobile phones .
Other features
Inbuilt search functionality can check your computer and connected networks for PowerPoint and Word files.
An outlook addon that can be used to convert PPT and DOC attachments.
If you are a PC adviser reader , you can get a full legal version of PPTminimizer here
Microsoft IE was reported with a major security flaw during the last 2-3 days . This vulnerability could be used by the hackers to get very sensitive user information such as banking passwords and credit card data . Experts were advising the internet explorer users to switch on to another browser till there’s a suitable fix . IE security flaw patch is assumed to be a fix for about 2 million computers running Windows OS.
I am always a supporter of open source browser movement and personally using Firefox and Google chrome . At the same time i know that many are still using Internet explorer (about 60%) ,and this could be the best indication for the depth of this vulnerability . Though the studies says that market share of FF and Chrome are increasing , for many colleges , companies and internet cafes ,browser means its Internet explorer .Even now ,they may not be aware of this major security flaw in IE . Anyways this download would be an easy fix for all IE fans out there .
