A while back I had this problem. binary moon inspired me to solve the issue and I guess this is worth sharing amongst wordpress enthusiast. While creating any WordPress themes, designers generally hard code the main pages navigation to a few general pages like front pages or archives etc. The obvious reason for this is that you cant predict which pages are available with any WordPress blog. [Find more →]

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Creating a WordPress theme is not quite as hard as one might think. Since you are reading this article I assume you are a either a web developer and want to know how to create your own theme or you are running a blog and want some one to create a theme for you. If you belong to the later category this article will help you in knowing what to communicate to your theme designer. In this article I am talking about what you must know before you actually create a theme. In next articles I will go deeper to actually create a fully functional theme step by step.

Before You Begin

Here is the high level plan. Before you start developing your theme, you must decide a few very important things. [Find more →]

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Yes - I am surprised when pros get it wrong. I created my robots.txt when I installed wordpress. At that time, the only thought to my mind for creating a robots.txt file was to disallow robots from entering into my admin area. Though with experience I learned, that there is no way a robot would crawl into my admin area unless untill I or someone else specifically link to it. So I was surprised to see a few advices given by pros like Micheal Grey did’nt get it quite right and experienced bloggers like Twenty Steps are confused.
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Nowadays it seems like nearly everyone has a cell phone. Cell phones have become a part of our life that for a few of us it hard to part us from these little gadgets. Does’nt this high reliance on these makes us a slave of our phone company. I think so.

But why is it like this in the first place. I came to this country in few years back as an immigrant so I know how cell phone companies work in ‘my part of the world’.

Here are a few important points to note about cell phone services in South Asian sub continent.
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I was surprised to see the post Google Gets Caught With Their Pants Down!. Though Google has one thing at their credit that the domain pro.blogger.com did exist for a long time, as can be verified by web archives. [Find more →]

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No duobt emule is one great tool for file sharing. While other file sharing stuff is now plagued with p0rn, I can still find many great things on emule.

But emule is not the fatsest one, or at least in the beginning. The tool actually gives you credit of how much have you given back to the other users. Also one important point is its configuration. Proper values should be set for the upload and download bandwidth limit. This brings me to the point of this post - The net speed.

To set correct [or should I say optimium] values you must know what are your limits. You dont want to give all the available bandwidth to emule , after all you have to do your work when upload and download continue in the back ground.

You need to find your uplaod and download limits and fortunately there are plenty of tools available. For most people , its a surprise to know that there uplaod speed is nearly 1/10th of their download speed.

Here are a few links. [Find more →]

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The other day I encountered a someone asking how should they manage incoming links that do not contain www as part of the url as the site was optimized in to be used with the www versions of the links.

The same question is asked differently sometimes as to what is the best practice to link to a site [your site]. Though a number of times you dont have much control over the incoming links to your site, but sometimes you do, [Find more →]

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ok, let me admit. A while back I hardly had any ambition of making money from my blogs. Though I was not getting any search hits in the first place and on top of that I had no ads in my blog, but when I see the way other blogs are configured, it inspired me to go ahead and make my blog better then theirs, for myself and for my readers.

So one of the things that push me to use some of my time on week ends, was those better looking urls in a number of blogs. When I installed wordpress, my articles had a permalink looking something like

http://www.tanamtechnologies.com/wordpress/?p=[post_id]

All WordPress needs to fetch a post from my database is the execution of correct file [which is index.php] and supplying that file with the correct argument, which happens to be the post_id supplied with argument p. Clearly this is not very pretty. This is why they call the default permalinks as “Ugly”. [Find more →]

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A few weeks back I was trying to get the following working, spent several hours and I was about to pull off my hairs.

I need to have a simple url rewriting that translates the following

http://www.tanamtechnologies.com/Web/Computers/Internet

to

http://www.tanamtechnologies.com/database.aspx?c=Category&s=SubCategory

also equally important to me was that I didn’t want any Redirections to happen. This was because I wanted the original URL to remain visible in the address bar and the user should never see that something is being pulled from database dynamically. [Find more →]

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