Praveesh's Blog

Recently i came to know that, some of my friends donot know how to change the Gmail theme. This motivated me to write this post. ( I noticed that my brother too uses the default theme, so i hacked his password and used his Gmail to prepare this post ) First login to your gmail.  [ Read More ]

Goto http://www.go2web20.net/twitterFollowBadge/ 2. Give your twitter account name, select Label ( Follow us or Follow me etc), select a color, adjust position if necessary and click  “UPDATE CODE”. You will get a code for your badge. Copy the code and paste it on your site template right before the “BODY” end tag(</body>). 3. WordPress users  [ Read More ]

We shifted our CiTS server recently. Akhil K Nambiar (The real admin) told me all  about  shifting and he gave me new CPanel access. It looked fresh and i noticed only some minor changes. I had to install Worpress for CiTS . I searched for Fantastico, but i couldn’t find it. I saw something new in  [ Read More ]

First of all, lets hear what Wikipedia says about GIF : “The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.” GIFs can be used for small animations and  [ Read More ]

An album is  a collection of images just like the Gallery. What makes it different from a gallery is that, an album can contain galleries and even albums inside it. Confused? Don’t worry…just go through the post, you will get the idea. An album is  shown below: In the above picture, both ‘Images’ and ‘My  [ Read More ]

A gallery is a collection of images. After reading this post, you will learn to display images as shown below. Gallery can be easily implemented in WordPress with the help of  “NextGen Gallery”  Plugin. I have explained in detail about its installation, uploading images, displaying gallery etc in this post. Lets start with installing the  [ Read More ]

Widgets are the wonderful componets of a wordpress blog. See some  widgets below: All the components that appear in the right most side of the above picture are widgets. i.e Sponsors, Counter, SMS Alerts, Facebook likebox, Photos in 3D etc. Lets look how these widgets are added. Take your Dashboard. Goto Appearance-> Widgets In the  [ Read More ]

You can use forms in wordpress by installing the Contact Form 7 Plugin. Have a look at one form which i have created: For installing Contact form plugin, goto Plugins-> Add new and search for contact form in the Search Plugins box as shown below: The result is as shown below, choose the second option  [ Read More ]

Before preparing this post, i searched the word definition of Plugin in Wikipedia. Listen to the definition of Plugin, “ In computing, a plug-in is a set of software components that adds specific capabilities to a larger software application. If supported, plug-ins enable customizing the functionality of an application. For example, plug-ins are commonly used  [ Read More ]