WordPress might be the CMS of choice when all you have to do is just blog but Drupal is the one most look out for when the work is serious. Drupal is the free and open source CMS which is used by many websites which do more than just blogging.
To make matters more interesting, Acquia has launched a commercial support for the Drupal Social Publishing System. Acquia offers packaged collection of some of the best software from the Drupal community members which will give users some resource to start creating Drupal based websites more easily.
Acquia has also launched an Acquia Network which will be providing the support and network services to the companies and users in order to keep their Drupal based websites running troublefree. The users of this network will get access to a suite of remote site management services like Software update management,System profile management, Automated spam blocking with Mollom and Heartbeat uptime monitoring etc.
Acquia will make it easy for the developers to create community-based publishing websites or the ones where the focus is on user generated content. This development will certainly cause a cheer from all those who run their websites on Drupal.
Acquia Drupal is GPL licensed - freely available for download and use.
This is a simple tutorial article which describes how you can dynamically generate a CSS code using PHP. Generally every programming book & online resource stresses more on the integration of PHP with HTML. Here we are gonna change the rule. We will show you how the repeated tasks such as setting the color of a webpage element in CSS can be automated with PHP.
I have divided this CSS tutorial into two parts. The first part of this CSS tutorial will tell you how to manually set the different hexadecimal values of colors in php variables & using those php variables directly instead of explicitly declaring the repeating colors over again.
Generating CSS Code Using PHP
Prerequisites: This tutorial requires a basic understanding of CSS, PHP concepts & their syntax as a prerequisite.
The following Steps describe how to use PHP in a CSS file & getting the same result in no time.
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Remote Storage has become a common thing today. Many websites offer the facility of remote file hosting & access. But we are not going to review the most common. We are here to review & present the stuff which is not so common yet useful. Am I Right? (Yes, certainly!).
So, in the expedition of finding the most innovative & the not so common stuff, we found some places that allow us to remotely access our pc through internet from anywhere in the world. They literally brought my personal desktop onto a computer system which was situated 1000 miles away. They are called “Web Desktops”. These Web Desktops make it possible to have all of our information available wherever we go.
GoToMyPC : It is a web desktop tool for remotely accessing the PC. Download the GoToMyPC software & run it on your local machine. Leave your local machine running. Now go anywhere else, log into the GoToMyPc website from any computer system & you will see your local machine right over the remote desktop.
You can access & manage the data on your local machine remotely & securely with GoToMyPC.
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Invisible Text: Firstly let me make it clear that it is not the case of hiding the text by changing its font color to match the background color of a webpage. Sometimes we are required to put some text on the page which should not be visible to the user, but the web browser. For eg. suppose we want that some element on a web page should be readable only by a screen reader & not by our users. In such situations we can apply the following CSS trick:
Set the display attribute of the element to “none” i.e
display: none;
It should be noted that the above CSS trick doesn’t work for Post- IE6 web browsers.
PDA-Friendly Page Layout: The webpage which looks perfect on your computer system might look obscure & absurd when displayed on your handheld PDA devices. This is because of the difference in the rendering techniques employed by a desktop based web browser & a PDA based web browser. CSS has special provisions for correctly displaying a document over PDA devices.
The following code can be used to call up a document meant for PDA devices:
<link type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet” href=”handheldstyle.css” media=”handheld” />
The above CSS trick overrides any inline CSS code & renders the page in exactly the PDA friendly layout.
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Docly: Docly is your online web 2.0 copyrighting machine that enables creating & copyrighting documents online. Basically it is an online word processor that provides the facility of creating as well as copyrighting your online documents. It assigns copyrights (both All Rights Reserved and Creative Commons) licenses to all published Docly Documents. You can even share or sell your copyrighted documents through the website itself.
Google Docs: Google Docs is a multi-purpose, multi tasking, a revolutionary & state of the art, FREE online document creation software. It is a ‘partial’ Microsoft Office on web. Yes, with google docs you can create, share & manage your office documents at anytime & almost anywhere.
Google Docs basically allows to create &/or upload the following four types of office documents viz.
- MS Word Files(.txt, .doc, .rtf, .odt, .sxw )
- MS PowerPoint Files(.ppt, .pps)
- SpreadSheets (MS Excel Files(.xls) & OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods) )
- Forms
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We love web 2.0 as much as Google loves it! The new set of features that comes with Web 2.0 also brings with them a new set of rules & parameters which every page of a website should fulfill in order to keep itself alive in the race of attaining good search rankings & visitor base. Today we will be presenting a brief review of few of the most popular & useful Firefox extensions that are a must for every web developer, designer & webmaster, without any regard to their level of expertise. They are essential for you all guys & they will simply change your work into an adventurous journey (provided you know how to take work out of them!)
The FireFox extensions discussed below are all Free to download & basically help you to solve the daily basis issues that appear while designing/developing or managing a website, such as validating the code, analyzing the keyword density, or simply managing the content. So Here’s the stuff..
1 iWebTool : is a great gift for not only the web designers & developers but also to a naive beginner who wants to learn the bits & pieces of web development & search engines.
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Better Feed: Better feed is a plugin for Wordpress that allows you to embellish your feeds with several highly customizable features. You can add “Read More” link, Copyright notice, number of comments, “Add to delicious” link and even incoming links in Google. Better Feed improves connectivity between your feed and your site.
Feed Styler: This plugin lets you edit your feeds and you can have your feeds look different from your posts. You can completely stylize your feeds with this plugin. This plugin though requires you to have decent knowledge of CSS though.
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Many video bloggers have voiced that there are hardly any good WordPress themes for vlogs. It is definitely one area where developers have not paid much attention while the demand for video blog themes is not great either. It could be the result of this mismatch of demand and supply that there are hardly any WordPress theme for vloggers.
We tried to find some WordPress themes for vloggers, we knew all along that there are very few of them but we had no idea that some of them are just brilliant. There were hardly any free themes for video bloggers though but if you can say “I would so want to use it for my podcast’s website/blog.” then you might get a free theme for your vlog as well. More on that later, let’s find out some themes which you can install on your vlog right now.
Video
Video is a dark WordPress Theme for WordPress created by the team over at Quommunication. It has some really cool features which you might not have seen in any other blog . It has an AJAX customizable episode list for the videos which will definitely save some time for the users while it enhances the user experience as well. The layout is neat and clean and it is fully W3C standards compliant. The best thing about this theme is the live preview of comments which was made possible with AJAX Commenting System. Users can post comments even when the video is on.
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It seems like everyone, particularly geeks have become very fond of Google Chrome. We are getting news of developments happening with Google Chrome almost everyday. If it’s not some official announcement from Google then some coders screw the script or make something that would make Google Chrome more close to becoming your default web browser.
Some guys at Ericuluous now have tried to bring the Google Chrome’s UI to WordPress by creating a Chrome look-alike theme.
It is a widget and gravatar ready two column fixed width theme which is compatible with WordPress v2.5 and above.
You can see the live demo here.
The social network market is definitely crowded and all of this is happening to get one thing -YOU. All these networks want you to be part of them but there also some who don’t believe in this herd thing. They rather want only selected people be part of their social network and creating an account on such sites is certainly not as easy as signing up on facebook.
1. aSmallworld is the Facebook of millionaires. The site was founded by an investment banker and he kept this network really exclusive. The users on this one are ultra elite and it is was the first social network where users could set multiple locations. Obviously millionaires don’t stay in one city all the time. It has all those standard features like profiles and private messaging while there are forums where the Yelp like reviews have been given by the users for restaurants, hotels etc. Lately, the site has become a haven for wealthy men looking to spend some time with beautiful women. Btw some of the users on this network are Naomi Campbell, Marcus Schenkenberg, Ivanka Trump, Bruno Santos, Massimiliano Neri, Isabeli Fontana, Lisa Cant, James Blunt, Josh Groban, Tiger Woods and Prince Felix of Luxembourg. Read the rest of this entry »
