President Elect – Obama – Time Magazine Cover
‘Mutts like me’ – Obama shows ease discussing race
WASHINGTON – It popped out casually, a throwaway line as he talked to reporters about finding the right puppy for his young daughters. But with just three offhanded words in his first news conference as president-elect, Barack Obama reminded everyone how thoroughly different his administration — and inevitably, this country — will be. “Mutts like […]
SilverStripe – Creating a new page type
Creating a new page type Earlier we stated that every page in a SilverStripe site has a page type, and that SilverStripe will look for a template corresponding to the page type. Therefore, the first step to get the homepage using a different template is to create a new page type. Each page type is […]
SilverStripe – Flush or Edit
Flushing the cache Whenever we edit a template file, we need to append ?flush=1 onto the end of the URL, e.g. http://localhost:3000/home/?flush=1. SilverStripe stores template files in a cache for quicker load times. Whenever there are changes to the template, we must flush the cache in order for the changes to take effect. </note>
SilverStripe – Creating Themes
You should ensure your templates are well structured, modular and commented so it’s easy for other people to customise them. Templates should not contain text inside images and all images provided must be open source and not break any copyright law. This includes any icons your template uses in the frontend or the backend CMS […]
SilverStripe – Installing 2.1 Themes
Simply unpack the contents of the zip file into your /themes directory in your silverstripe project Change to theme by putting the following line in your ./mysite/_config.php: SSViewer::set_theme(“themename”); Visit your homepage, ensuring you flush the cache (append ?flush=1 to the url).
Install & Setup LAN & Worldwide Access Guide for WAMP
STEP 1: Enable Associate Port in all Firewalls In order to communicate between your computer and other computers, either within your LAN or worldwide, you need to enable HTTP port in all firewalls. Different people use different firewalls and each firewall has its own way to enable port, so here I show the most basic […]
SilverStripe/Tip – Image location conventions
There are two places where you should keep images within SilverStripe: tutorial/images/ – Only designer can access and manage images. assets/ – Content author can upload and manage using SilverStripe. Each of these folders can naturally have subfolders to better organise the items. This practice also applies to other assets such as multimedia files and […]
Wowzamedia Server – installation and starting Service
Wow what a learning experience – Finally I have installed wowzamedia Server on the VPS account. The steps are as follows 1. Log in as root or a regular account root # wget http://www.wowzamedia.com/downloads/WowzaMediaServer-1-5-3/WowzaMediaServerPro-1.5.3.tar.bin (This downloads the binary file and places it where it needs to go) Note: (sudo is a command to execute a […]
Web 2.0 Font Types
American Typewriter is like Courier on steroids – More stylized, prettier – and great for that faux-typewriter effect. 43Things uses it well, and is a pleasant break from san serif fonts. Clarendon is another great serifed font (and, for those interested, is used by a certain antipodean lager), and Web2.0 social web app site Ning […]
Dell XP Reinstall CTRL + F11
Get great prices on all PC and MAC memory, at 4allmemory.com! Dell XP has reinstall boot partion when blue bar starts across bottom of screen at boot………. press CTRL F11 You can check to see if the dell restore partition is on the hard drive by going to control panel>administrative tools>computer management>disk management. There should […]
SEOBOOK.com SeoTools – Links
Free Keyword List Generator http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-list/generator.php How it Works Free Keyword List Generator — Typo Generator http://tools.seobook.com/spelling/keywords-typos.cgi —–
Struggling With All Energy – Week 6 4th Qtr 2007
Thought from this Weeks Lesson: ______________________________________________ Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, pp. 195-203 Chap. 18 – The Night of Wrestling (Excerpt) Jacob prevailed because he was persevering and determined. His experience testifies to the power of importunate prayer. It is now that we are to learn this lesson of prevailing prayer, of unyielding faith. […]
301 Redirects – White Hat SEO
301 Redirects – White Hat SEO 301 redirect is the most efficient and Search Engine Friendly method for webpage redirection. It’s not that hard to implement and it should preserve your search engine rankings for that particular page. If you have to change file names or move pages around, it’s the safest option. The code […]
SEO Backlinks
How it Works Quality backlinks is one of the most important factors in Search Engine Optimization. It is not enough just to have a lot of backlinks, it is the Quality of backlinks along with the Quantity that help you rank better in Search Engines. > A backlink could be considered as a Quality Backlink […]