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CREATING RSS FEED FOR WEBPLUS AND OTHER STATIC WEBSITES
Rss feed is inbuilt feature of dynamic websites such as joomla ,wordpress ,blogger ,drupal etc .But if you have a static html website how to create rss feed for your website .Rss feed is very very important for a website and makes a realtime connection with your site users .A user who subscribe for site feed can be updated with new articles and comments .In dynamic websites rss xml file is generated automatically when an article is written .But in static websites if you have a file in site folder named rss.xml it can not be updated automatically when a new article is written .Webplus has solved this problem and given a rss tool for creating rss feed manually .
Go to left toolbar and select rss tool at 19th number .
Now select add rss feed option
Set rss feed name ,file name and url.Give url to the website homepage url .
Now select option of add new article .
Setup article name article url and article description .In article description copy and paste your article .
Suppose you have 100 article in your website then you can add all articles in your feed by doing this .And when you writes a new article then you can add this article by selecting add new article option .
After creating your feed upload the rss feed file to website root folder .
This method indicates clearly that with webplus you can create a rss feed for any website .
CREATING ROUND CORNER BOXES IN WEBPLUS
Webplus is a very easy and great tool for creating professional looking websites .During designing a page in webplus I think there is no need to use any other software to create graphics such as buttons and boxes .Here is a little tutorial to create corners rounded of a box .
Go to left toolbar and select quick rectangle at 12th number .
Then draw a box
Now you will see a vertical line attached to the left side of box with a dot in its middle
Select this dot with left mouse click and draw it downward with continous clicking.
You will se the change in corners and now you can adjust corners easily .
DEADLY DEALS FOR YOUR BLOG :SEO
DIRTY SITE NAVIGATION
When search bot (mainly talking about Google bot ) hits web site home page or any other page it follows the other links of web site on page ( if links are follow ) .Suppose a page (page 1) of your website is linked to home page and an other page (page 11) of web site is linked to another one(page 111) but no page (page1 ,page11 ,page111) is back linked to home page nor mutually back linked then search bot is confused and cannot crawl your web site successfully .It will prevent search bot crawling your web site frequently and it will give a very bad impression on search engine .
Solution
Every page have a back link to homepage and it is much better having A top level navigation on every page so that all pages remain connected with Top level menu .
VERY HEAVY WEB PAGES WITH GRAPHICAL CONTENT
seo has nothing to do with heavy images with transparency ,flash animations and flash videos .Search bot crawls just simple text present on your web page .Suppose we have worked hard to create a very good looking webpage with flash animations and heavy images .But we forgot to measure the size of page that exceeded 2mb .Search bot may leave your page without crawling in this condition .
UNPROFESSIONAL WEB DESIGN
It is a important point .If you are using a bad seo template for your blog there are many problems in loading page .Though Google is changing its seo rule for layout design but now a days css designs are favourite for search engines .There are many advantages of using css in layout .Ohhhhh we are talking about bad things here so i tells you what is not good in web design.
Using frames in design
Lack of css knowledge
A LOT OF NOT FOUND (404 ERROR ) AND URL REDIRECTIONS
Some time there is a need to transfer a blog from one plate form to other such as blogger to wordpress .Some innocent and novice users do not care about not found and redirections .And during transfer of blog they get a lot of these errors .In this condition Google may stop crawling your blog for a long time and search engine position may also down .
A VERY BAD WEB SERVER
Do you know about two words “Downtime” and “Offline” .Downtime is the time when your web site host is not working and your web site is being offline means your web site is not available for Internet users as well as search engine crawlers .Suppose your web site is offline at a moment and at the same moment search-bot visit your webpage,What will happen?
crawler will return without crawl.OK .Now crawler again comes and find the same condition .What will happen ?It may be possible that your web site may not be crawled for a long time .
A LOT OF LINK EXCHANGE
In starting it is good to build back links via link exchange method but link exchange beyond a limit may be dangerous .Besides linking to pirate web sites and other illegal web sites may be harmful.
HOST YOUR FILE FREE GOOD FILE HOSTING WEBSITES
Some important free file storage systems on internet
Some time we need to upload a file on web-server .And we do not have any web server to upload file .Suppose we have a blog on blogger (blogspot) .We can upload image files and video files on blogger but we cannot upload other file types such as zip or rar or .exe .(Currently) .And we want to create a download link for our users, then what to do .
there are many websites providing free file hosting.Here I am giving some better choices .
MEGAUPLOAD
MEGAUPLOAD.COM
This is my favorite file storage system .It is most useful for free users .It is the only system supporting download resume for free users.Free users can register and manage their files .
4SHARED
4SHARED.COM
It is also a good file storage system and the unique feature of this system is that it has its own file search engine i.e. we can search file by name to download.
RAPIDSHARE
RAPIDSHARE.COM
It is the largest file storage system .But this system is very busy for free users .
EASYSHARE AND MEDIAFIRE
These are another good file storage machines .Mediafire provides good download speed for free users .
Some other filehosting websites
zshare.com
ziddu.com
netload.com
uploading.com
You should check your uploaded files links frequently if you are a free user because it may be possible that most of file hosts remove their files if not downloaded since a certain period as one month or different time period depending on the file hosting system terms and conditions .
How to create rounded corner graphics in Photoshop
For a novice it is a little bit hard to find how to make round corner graphics for a website or blog or for any other use .Here I will clear it in photoshop and it is very much easy .We can create corners round according to our need .
Suppose you want to make a button for a website with slightly rounded corners.
Create a web document with transparent background in photoshop
Select rounded rectangle tool in left tool bar at 18th position
Now go to the upper option bar for shape tools
Set radius 9px for rectangle’s corners.
Draw rectangle and color it as desired .
Making rounded corners of an existing image in photoshop
Open image in photoshop
Select rounded rectangle tool and set radius according to your will .
Draw rectangle all over the image .
Right click on rectangle and select option “make selection”
Set feather amount if needed ( according to image resolution )
Copy selection created on image
Create new file and paste this selection
Now you will find your image with rounded rectangles .
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How to handle affiliate links in wordpress
Basic coloring of manga character or anime in photoshop : Magic Wand method
I think Adobe photoshop is great for coloring any object either a black and white photo or scatch .Here is a easy and simple method to color a manga or anime or cartoon in photoshop .
First import image in photoshop
Then select magic wand tool in left tool bar
Then select any part of image you want to color e.g. face .(select all face parts by pressing shift and also save every selection so that you can load it any time )
After this select brush (airbrush with feathered edges)
choose a proper color for face
Set color blending mode multiply then color it
Now we select hairs by doing this (set wand tool tolerance 100 so that it it can select most pixels )
Now again select airbrush with diameter more than 160 and blending mode multiply and color hairs with your desired style .
Now see the image you will find some white pixels uncolored .To color these pixels select airbrush and set diameter 3 or 4 and zoom the image and color these white dots without making a selection.
Now color shirt with this method .
How to paint an existing image with adobe illustrator cs4
Yes we can color any existing image in illustrator but how because live paint bucket is just working on illustrator objects and not on any outer exported object.Yes it is true but it is also true that we can convert any image to illustrator object and we can color image with live paint bucket .Suppose you have created a pencile scatch on paper and you have scanned it in pc and you want to color it with illustrator but when you open this image in illsutrator and try to color with live paint bucket you find urself unable to do this .
Now I will tell you step by step how to make image editable for illustrator .
Open Sdobe illsutrator Cs4 and import any image like this .
Now select selection tool by mouse or by pressing “V” with keyboard .
Then click over the image anywhere ,you will see the option of live trace below the top option bar .
Select the simple trace from the drop down menu ,your image will be converted to illustrator object but do not stop here and carry on
Now select the newly appeared option expand by doing this you can edit nodes of images .
Now select paint bucket from left tool bar and click over image to convert it into live paint group and ignore the warning .
You will find that you can color different parts of image with paint bucket and it will not effect the lines color such as in corel painter and photoshop.
To choose a proper color select color from color guide from right tool window .
You can cutomize your live paint bucket by editing live paint options from object >live paint >gap options
Finally we can get a colored image like this
This image also include photoshop effects such as dodge and paint brushes.
I will write full series on these effects .
SETTING UP NEW WORDPRESS BLOG : STEP 3 PRIMARY SETUP OF BLOG
IF YOU HAVE AN EXISTING BLOG ON WORDPRESS AND YOU WANT TO TRANSFER IT TO NEW ONE THEN READ THIS ARTICLE
AFTER INSTALLING WORDPRESS YOU MUST GIVE IT SOME PRIMARY SETTINGS
DELETE OLD ADMIN ACCOUNT AND REPLACE IT WITH NEW ONE
After installation you will find an admin account with username admin .This username is default and everyone gets this username after wordpress installation .This is less secure so you can replace it via following technique…
LOGIN TO WORDPRESS
GO TO USERS >ADD NEW IN LEFT PANEL OF YOUR DASHBOARD SET NEW USERNAME WITH A STRONG PASSWORD AND GIVE IT ADMINISTRATION POWER
NOW LOGOUT FROM YOUR WORDPRESS THEN LOGIN VIA THIS NEW USER
GO TO AGAIN USERS DELETE THE USER WITH USERNAME ADMIN SETUP
BLOG TITLE AND DESCRIPTION
Now you should setup blog title and decription so that it can creat its own identity in search engine index .
SETUP PERMALINK STRUCTRE
Read this article for understanding permalink value in seo .
COMMENTS SETUP
Comments are very important for a blogger .
Go to Discussion and tick these options mustly
“A comment is held for moderation”
“Enable threaded (nested) comments “
BLOG PAGES
In default wordpress theme you will get a page about .If you are not interested to tell about yourself then delete this page or fill it .
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