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I have come to the end of the year and hopefully the beginning of a new life, this has been a marathon, trying to make use of every helped offered to me has also been hard because of the time limit and unseen difficulties but all in all I feel nice to have done this module.   

Notice  (a) I would like to thank Mez for her wonderful help, i really do think that we missed alot when she was not well but she has helped me a lot, I didn’t know anything at the beginning butI have managed to learn little by little with her help. (b)I also feel that if it was not the problems with the serves that happen on the way which frustrated people like me,maybe it would have been different.   I even ended up changing the serves every time I had a problem, something that was so funny is that one sever refused to recognise my password until now, I have tried to contact the provider but all in vain.    

Accomplishment  

I have managed to make everything asked, I feel happy and good with my blog, it looks organized.  - I have made good use of the PHP, changing the way the theme looks and having a game on one of the pages. - gallery - Google map - Slide show - Frickr - Music  - Blogroll  - Yahoo pipes - 2 Essays which I handed in on the reception.       

This is the blog that cant take my password.(http://www.george.covuniblog.com/) 

With the help of General Andrew Schonenberger, I have manageged to have music on my blog, it is not the easy thing when you look at it but actually it is bloody easy. 

1- you down the anarchy media player plug-in.

2- Upload it on your blog

3- write a post and ——– link one of the words or sentence with any url e.g

(http://downloads.oreilly.com/network/2007/02/14/web2-miller-audio13.mp3) 

4- bang you are done 

 play

changing the way the theme looks is a little bit hard compared to other themes, with the CSS all inbedded in the stylesheet, it takes time as you need to get it right, and because there are breaks in the page,you have to change color by color to get what you want, am really finding it hard to final change the css in the page works.

Well I’ve had the capability to do this for quite some time, but I didn’t bother before now, as I didn’t really want a load of pages no one ever looked at before about viruses, security news and so on as now I can just use my customisable Google homepage to keep an eye on those.

With the advent of the new kid on the block yahoo.com, comes some interesting new RSS feeds with issues/news/blog posts very pertinent to this region, and therefore to me, and more than likely my readers so I shall use this as an example.

Step 1: Get & Install the RSS feedList Plugin

First things first, you need to get the plugin. You can do so here Wordpress Feedlist Plugin (formerly rssLinkedList).

If you are familar with the Wordpress plugin system you should be able to install the plugin with no problems.

If you aren’t basically you need to upload the plugin the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, then go the admin panel and look for the plugins section (/wp-admin/plugins.php).

In here you’ll see a new plugin which is not activated yet, click the “Activate” link, the block should then turn green and the plugin is active!

Step 2: Creating the page for the RSS Feed

Next thing you need to do is in the Wordpress admin panel go to Write - Write Page, and create a new page.

You can call it whatever you like, depending on what you are planning to do with it, Feeds, My News or in my case my sports as it’s for feeds from sports.yahoo.com

Step 3: Adding the RSS Feed and Testing it

After you’ve created the page you can add the content, in my case the content of the page is:

For EACH RSS Feed you wish to add, the options are quite self explanatory, there are more such as adding custom tags before and after each item in the list, by default there is <li> before and </li> after each entry.

After you’ve saved and published the page, you can check to see if it’s worked.

Go back the main page of your blog and check to see if the link is there, on mine it’s as I wish, at the bottom of the navigation list titled my sports

Why should you change your header images? Well, you want to have your unique header images that reflect your personality, right? If you wonder how I’ve changed my header images on this blog , I’ll tell you how. Actually it is pretty easy. You just have to follow the steps below:

• First you have to have your images ready on your PC (personal computer). You may create your own if you are good at it. Alternatively you may findHeader Templates doing all the jobs for you if you want your header images to look professional; or get some free header images from the Internet here

• Second you have to log in to your WordPress account, find out your header images dimensions by clicking on Design/Theme Editor/header.php

• Scroll all the way down to find this line: <div id=”header_img”>. The header dimension looks like width[970], height[140]

• Once you know your header image’s dimension, you may have to customize your image(s) on your PC the same width and height as stated in yourheader.php file. I use a simple program - Microsoft Paint (which came with my PC) to do the job

• Save your images as .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, or .png. The default image extension uses .jpg. If you are curious about these image extensions, visit GIF, JPG and PNG - What’s the difference? to learn more

• Use FireFTP to upload your saved header image(s) to this folder: /word-content/themes/your_template/images; if you don’t have FireFTP, you can use any available FTP you have to do the job. Make sure you changeyour_template to be your real template name

• The header image(s) you uploaded will replace the default ones. In my case I had to upload theimage in frickr and then copy the url which i replaced in the header.

some of you guys who are working with explory, you should have notice the funny games that explory plays when you write a long sentence, well it just pushs the side bar down the bottom of the page which has been making feel like a donky, i have discovered the problem and fixed it. make sure that you dont exceed the box when writing.

cheers

This is wow, yahoo pipes is just the begining of people having control over everything they want to hear and see, it has been just good t0 see it embeded in my blog and believe that it is really working, but without the help of this guy Andrew, I would have been having hard time.

You can mix, mash, combine, and reduce a variety of feeds from various social 

bookmarking and networking 

sources to get the news you can use, even by specific topics and keywords.

I’m going to poke into this to see how I can increase my feed coverage of 

specific items and eliminate all of the feed nonsense I seem to get right now.

Have you used this? Is it working for you? Have you come up with some 

interesting customized feeds with this? Share! 

look and see how it is done. 

Have you ever wondered how hard it would be to automatically zip and unzip archives with ASP.NET? It may be easier than you think thanks to the powerful SharpZipLib open source library. This library provides you with a number of easy to use tools for working with Zip (and GZip, Tar, and BZip2, for that matter) archives in .NET code that make the task of creating and expanding compressed archives relatively easy.

Today we’re going to look at how you can use RadUpload and SharpZipLib to upload a Zip archive and then expand it on the server. For our scenario, let’s pretend that we want to allow users to upload a zip with photos that we’ll then automatically expand into an images directory. In future posts, we’ll look at how we can do the inverse, taking files on the server and creating a new zip file that users can download.

Step 1: Setting up RadUpload

RadUpload has come a long way in its short revision history, and it is now very easy to just drop on your page and go. So we’ll do just that- drag and drop a RadUpload control onto a page with a RadProgressManager and RadProgressArea that will be used to convey upload progress for larger file uploads. The markup should look something like this:

for more visit  Todd Anglin’s blog 

As it is clear that you can embed google maps in blog, I have jumped on the wagon hoping to learn more and explore the power of web 2.0. This image is from the google map while I was locating my house. Below that you can see the google map as embedded into my blog, its a great feeling when you see how all this works.Take a look and see more from avi                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

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