Avoid Common Web Site Design Mistakes

November 18th, 2008 | Posted in Web Design/WordPress

Here is a great tip that can help you avoid a very common mistake made by many inexperienced web site designers. This can make a big difference in how professional your site is perceived.

A common mistake made by many when using background images, especially those backgrounds with a colored left spine is that you are often only viewing the page in the screen resolution to which your monitor is set. I’ve seen page after page where there is a blue spine down the left side, with the center of the page having black text on a white background.

The problem arises when you are looking at your page in screen resolution of only 800×600, which is the most common screen resolution used today. While it is the most common, if you are using a 17″ monitor, you should be using 1024×768 screen resolution, and on a 19″ monitor you should be using 1280×1024 screen res. These are the screen resolution people with larger monitors use on a day-to-day basis.

If your background image is only 800 pixels wide, it may look great on your screen, but what you don’t see is that the blue spine on the left side will start repeating at pixel 801. On a larger monitor, people see the blue spine about 75% of the way across the screen and your black text is now running through that part of the blue spine making your text unreadable.

This primarily occurs on web sites that are using variable width design. In other words the text spacing resizes depending on the resolution of your screen. On websites designed using fixed width tables, this becomes less of an issue. It is very important you check your page in many different screen resolutions.

Free Twitter Clone

July 20th, 2008 | Posted in Make Money, Web Design/WordPress

With the evolution of micro-blogging tools such as twitter and plurk the sentiment of all was attracted to these micro-blogging sites. As always happen people wanted to start the same kind of niche.

As we have many-many clones of the popular websites so twitter is not an exception. I was thinking this to happen, but so quick I had not thought so.

So, all you twitter inspired people; here’s your chance to start the similar kind of service, which I called as micro-blogging tool. The price to start is also very attractive just go thorough this post.

Twitter Clone
When I first saw I was really excited to share this on my blog. Laconica is the website which actually shares the twitter clone. A similar kind of website and function which twitter has.

It has most of the functionalities which twitter has and also its working is quite smooth and easy.

Source
Feel relaxed. This is open source tool. Yes! It’s an open source tool, and it’s free to use it the way you like it.

What’s more this also supports the OpenID. You can edit the software the way you want to have it.

Download
I am sure you will be excited to read this if you are a twitter fan and wanted to start a similar service. Just visit the Laconica and download the script. If you are keen to see the demo of the script then visit identi.

The software is still in its early stages and you could also add your suggestions to improve this software. Many more features are expected soon.

Recover: Your Lost Wordpress Password

July 18th, 2008 | Posted in Self Improvement, Web Design/WordPress

Today I was surfing the Webmaster forums and a question came up to me. What can I do if I have lost my wordpress admin password?

The question looked interesting to me so I am writing on my blog. But most of you will say that there is a forgot password link so anyone can use that. Just think for a while if a person has lost his admin login too. I know you might be thinking how can this be possible, but it happens sometime.

Solution
Now the way I am suggesting you is very simple and everyone can use it. You need to have control panel access and phpMyAdmin access. Just follow the simple tutorial below and you can easily reset the password.

Simple Process to Reset the Password
Just login to the control panel of your website and follow this

• Open phpMyAdmin and browse to the database.
• Look for the wp_users table and browse.
• In that you will see the list of users that have permission. Just select which you think might be admin login and edit that complete row.
• After that you will come to the page where you will see the admin login name and password in the encrypted form, as you can’t make out from the encryption that what is the password. So use the encrypted password which is mentioned below and it will reset your password to 123456
• Encrypted password to write: e10adc3949ba59abbe56e057f20f883e

That’s it you password has been reset to 123456. Now you can easily login to the admin section of your wordpress blog and change the password to whatever you want.

My Suggestion
I would like to suggest you that if you cant store your sensitive information such as passwords and logins in the text file in your computer than you need to use Firefox as it stores password securely and without any leak.