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Display feedburner subscriber count in text in your wordpress blog

admin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:39:13 +0000

I believe you’ve seen websites and blogs that uses the text-based Feedburner subscriber count instead of the chicklet. I hope you are not getting the idea the these guys update their feed count manually. Instead, it can be done easily with scripts, and the reason why you want to do is – it gives you total flexibility in terms of design, styling and display.

Step 1

Copy paste the following code into your template, replace feedburner-id with your Feedbuner username. This script will grab you the feed count in numbers.

//get cool feedburner count
$whaturl="http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=feedburner-id";

//Initialize the Curl session
$ch = curl_init();

//Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

//Set the URL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $whaturl);

//Execute the fetch
$data = curl_exec($ch);

//Close the connection
curl_close($ch);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
$fb = $xml->feed->entry['circulation'];
//end get cool feedburner count

Step 2

Paste this anywhere you want and it’ll display a Feedburner subscriber count in text.

echo $fb;

To style it nicely with your website or blog’s theme, add

and tweak the CSS accordingly

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Create a “send this to twitter” button

admin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:22:08 +0000

Some times ago, I shown you how to display your last twitter entry on your WordPress blog. Today, let’s create a button to allow your visitors to send the current post they’re reading to twitter. It is not that hard so simple code can do that. so here is the code.

Share on Twitter

This way Your readers are now able to send your post url to twitter! Hope it will bring you some traffic and new readers!

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Get the ultimate HD Multimedia Powerhouse.

admin — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:15:39 +0000

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For simply completing a brief survey, you could be on your way to a free Samsung 40” HDTV!
Participate now before this offer runs out.

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Tips for buying cheap Laptop

one more website design is done for USA based client

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:12:23 +0000

We have completed one more website for USA based client. His name is Dinesh Kampani. This was the second project we’ve completed for this client and they are an absolute pleasure to work with.

This website is for life insurance, health insurance and related products.

Please visit his website at http://www.insuranceinminutes.com .

If you need a new website, or need a current site revamped, contact us for a free no-obligation consultation and quote by email at surat.digitalstyle@gmail.com or complete the short form now.

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How to get unique wordpress theme of yours?

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:12:07 +0000

The problem with free and lately even premium Wordpress themes is that you will certainly not be the only one using them. You can forget about the whole concept of unique web design. What stimulates your web design censors probably attracts many others as well. But there are still ways to obtain a cool theme with guaranteed uniqueness. To remind you, here are the optional three.

It is easy to settle for one of the many free themes that are offered online for free. But it is also about time to realize that unique web design might end up costing a few bucks and some of your time. Accept this reality and we’ll show you a whole new world of obtaining hi-quality Wordpress themes.

1. Hire A Wordpress Developer

Our first suggestion is to do the theme web design yourself (using Photoshop, Fireworks or any other graphic editor. Then have a developer create the theme. In the wake of Wordpress you’ll have no problem finding programmers with great experience in developing WP themes. Go to any freelancing portal, rentacoder is recommended, and locate a developer. Pay $100-$200 and send them your theme designs with specifications. Within a couple of weeks you should have you absolute own theme ready for use. If you end up not using the theme, you can get you money’s worth by labeling it as a Premium Wordpress theme and sell it for $50 per single license.

2. Create Everything Yourself

This option requires no financial investments but your full cooperation in time and effort. Start off by finding a good Wordpress hosting package that includes pre-installable scripts for Wordpress installation and database set up and a proper website hosting FTP client (Five Best FTP Clients). Alternatively, you can even choose to install a server on your local computer (read this for instructions: Installing Xampp and WordPress). Uploading files locally will require no internet connection and work much faster than a remote web server.

Now, rather than only doing the web design, you’ll have to learn the whole process of building a Wordpress theme – from creating the template files to building the stylesheet. This is not only a useful lesson to help you understand how a theme is created, but the only real way to gain total creative freedom. As time passes your design will need to be tweaked, learning WP development would save you considerable money in the long term, rather paying an expert, you do the work yourself.

A Wordpress theme is based on template files and the script language PHP. For example, a classic theme consists of four template files; header.php, index.php, sidebar.php and footer.php. All these files contain PHP scripts that determine the content and a connected css stylesheet to determine how it looks. To create a Wordpress theme yourself programming is thus required. However, by tweaking theme code you should have become familiar with the file structure and content by now.

3. Hire A Professional Wordpress Theme Designers

Ever heard of premium Wordpress themes or hi-quality free Wordpress themes? Both theme types are often designed and developed by professional web designers. They are made either as an effort by the designer to market his/her skills or as a source of potential income. These dedicated Wordpress theme designers often also offer their services for a fixed fee. Hiring a professional Wordpress designer will cost you anything from $800-$2500. This is most expensive option of our listed three, but is perhaps the only one that will guarantee a professional and well-made theme.

Share your ideas, how did you get your unique WP theme?

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Ways To Get More Referral Clicks

admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:23:20 +0000

Affiliates are one the most popular way to earn on Internet. To make good earning from affiliate market click on your affiliate link is most needed and first thing to be done by your affiliate/referral. In most of systems affiliates are being tracked by browser cookies, one click on your referral link will make the person your affiliate for a long time. Here are some ways to increase click on your affiliate link and also ways to increase sales after click.(successful affiliation)

1. Convert your referral link to some short url using services like tinyurl.com or bit.ly OR if you are using Wordpress use plugins like GoCodes

2. Use converted referral link as signature everywhere. In forums, email , chat room status , messenger status.

3. Use banner instead of text link. Sometimes banners and graphical representation helps more.

4. Create own marketing for the product you are referring. Own tagline, representation, website and then redirect to original site using referral link.

5. You are earning something from referral, Offer some reward to the person who is joining under your referral. Some companies pay damn high rates for affiliate (very competitive hosting business), you can offer some money back on successful referral.

6. Promote your affiliate link using PPC program like Adwords,Clicksor,Adbrite. Write about the company that you are referring or about the product in companion.

7. This sounds funny but promote your link being a female, fake profiles if you are not a female. This increases click rates rapidly though I never tried, but it’s true.

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Tips for buying cheap Laptop

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:53:46 +0000

Laptops are gaining in popularity these days. Almost everyone is carrying one now either for work or entertainment. Laptops with the latest technology are introduced to the market everyday and these new laptops come with a huge price tag. However, that does not mean you cannot get a good and cheap laptop. I have put together a guide that may help you out in your hunt for a cheap and good laptop.

Buy cheap laptop with older technology
Rapid advance in technology makes it meaningless to buy the latest technology at a high price. When laptop with wireless capability first came to the market, a unit with this technology can cost up till US$2500. NOw after 2 years, you can get a relatively fast centrino laptop for less than US$1000

Buy used or refurbished laptop
The depreciation of a laptop value is so high, that after one year in the market, a laptop can easily lose half its value. So if you are looking for a cheap laptop, look for one which is close to one year old. Not all used laptop are in bad condition. You will be surprised to find that some used laptops are still in good condition because their owners are power users or gamers.

Buy laptop from power users or gamers
I like to buy electronic gadgets including laptops from hard core power users or gamers. Let me share with you why. Gamers or power users usually require the latest and most powerful technology to run their games or power hungry applications. They often will not settle for second best. They also have the tendency to chase after the latest technology. So after one year, they will be bored of what they have and will look to sell off their laptops so that they can buy a new one. Now if you are looking to buy cheap laptops with up to date technology and you happen to have friends who are gamers, do ask them if they are looking to sell off their laptops. Who knows, maybe you can buy a good and cheap laptop from them.

Scan through gaming forums and local gaming community
if you do not already have friends who like to play computer games, then scanning through gaming forums on the internet is another way to get good and cheap deals for used laptop. Internet makes it easy for you to do this. Go to google.com and start searching for gaming forums. Visit each and everyone and see if they have a Trading Section. You will definitely find many post from gamers looking to sell their gaming laptops.

Scan through local bulletin boards
Do scan through local bulletin boards near you for cheap deals on laptop.Especially if there are software companies around the area. Software companies do offer their used computers or laptops for sale when their software projects end. I personally had gotten a few good deals for my family and friends.

Look for cheap laptop with at least 512mb memory
This is especially important for used laptop. If the processor speed is slow, then having more memory can compensate for the lack in speed. In fact, The size of memory plays a big part in determining how fast a laptop runs an application. Just by increasing the memory size, you can see a huge difference in speed. A cheap laptop with at least 512mb memory can run most non graphic intensive application easily.

Get cheap laptop from reputable manufacturer
This is very important because if you are buying used laptop, then the chances of requiring servicing is higher than a new laptop. So if you buy from a reputable manufacturer, you will save alot of trouble and time if your laptop do require servicing.

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Who am I? Ask Google Dashboard

admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:45:30 +0000

Google is offering a new privacy control that will make it easier for people to see some of the information being collected about them.

The “Dashboard” feature unveiled Thursday pulls together all the data that pour into Google’s computers whenever web surfers log in to one of the company’ services.

That includes summaries of an individual’s e-mail, search requests and viewing habits on Google’s video site, YouTube. Before, a user would have to check multiple places for all that.

The snapshot doesn’t include any activity that occurs when a person isn’t logged into a Google service.

Dashboard represents Google’s latest step to give its users more control over their personal information and appease privacy watchdogs.

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Update blog with fresh and unique content

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:51:50 +0000

We know that search engines loves fresh and new content. So, if you want to be at top of search engine rankings, at least you need to update you blog with fresh and unique content regularly. But, the thing is that we do not know what to write daily, and what to share. Or we just don’t get any proper topic to our post. And if that thing happens to you, you should try Freshcontent.net.

The name says it all. Yes Freshcontent.net is a free service which offer you to create unique and fresh content to your blog. It helps you to make at least one fresh content to your blog with the updated news of the world. The topic they provide are also various. There are news content, free stuff content, Food and cooking and so on, you can check their directory at http://www.freshcontent.net/directory/news_feeds.html

As I said earlier, this service is free. But if you want to support their website, you just have to linking to them. So what you waiting for? If you’re the one who fed up updating your blog but actually want to update it, Freshcontent.net is the answer for you.

If you like my post then have some comments.

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Get your own website for free..No hidden charges!

admin — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:26:24 +0000

The Computer is the Brain, the Network is the Nervous System and the Databases are the Memory of your Organization. None of these parts can survive without the Heart, which is the same as the Website of an Organization. The Website, which pumps data similar to the Heart pumping Blood, keeps the Organization’s alive and thriving. Does your Organization have a heart?

Are you Still Spending thousands of $$$$ for getting a simple 5 page website? Now get 10 page professional looking custom website totally free.

These will be features in your free website.

1) Standard Features
2) 10 Pages Website
3) No Readymade Templates, we design as per your need
4) Layout design as per specifications
5) Search engine friendly web design
6) Home page
7) About us page
Services page or Product Page
9) Enquiries form
10) Site map
11) Search engine submission
12) Creation of Google Sitemap, ROR sitemap and Yahoo Sitemap for quicker inclusion in Search engines.
13) Source files and Ownership rights
14) Integration with Google analytics for comprehensive reporting

If you agree to use a hosting service that we recommend for just $5.99/month, paid annually. You get a free website for your business. Ya it will be totally free. No hidden charges.

To know more about this free website design offer please email us at surat.digitalstyle@gmail.com or contact us.

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